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SCREENING 2: COOKED, SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE

Wednesday, November 14th2:45pm – 4:45pmIFC Center323 6th Ave, New York, 10014 Rebuild by Design and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to the world premiere of the film Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, featuring director Judith Helfand and author Eric Klinenberg, with two special screenings on Sunday, November 11, and Wednesday, November 14. In July 1995, Chicago was hit by […]

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LECTURE: DESIGNING BORDERS: AMY CHESTER, JAMES WESCOAT AND IEVA JUSIONYTE

Tuesday, November 13th6:30pmRoom 123, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy StreetCambridge, MA 02138 Borders are sites of control, crossing, difference, transgression, and at times, engagement. They are often embraced for the purposes of fragmenting, dividing, or disrupting societies, ecologies, landscapes, narratives, and imaginations. Yet there is much more that goes into their ‘design’ than meets the eye,

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SIX YEARS LATER, DOWNTOWN NO SAFER: LOWER MANHATTAN STILL WAITING FOR PROTECTION OVER HALF A DECADE

Downtown Express: In the days following Superstorm Sandy six years ago, Tanya Acevedo, a mother of two, remembers that it “felt like we were living in the end of the world.”  While waiting for the power to return, her apartment in the Lillian Wald houses on Avenue D was dark and cold.  “It felt so

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SINKING CITIES: NEW YORK

PBS: Discover how New York City – overwhelmed in 2012 by Superstorm Sandy – has learned from that disaster, and must defend itself against rising seas and the next big storm. With 520 miles of shoreline and no coastal protection, engineers and urban planners are tackling the problem with urgency and creative engineering.  See highlights from

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