The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing

Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…

May 1, 2020

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Resources for a just recovery from the GSD’s CoDesign Field Lab

The coronavirus outbreak has both revealed and exacerbated structural inequities in American cities. Challenges faced…

Apr 29, 2020

OP-ED

Jeffrey Schnapp on the spatial logic of quarantine: “When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?”

Homeless people sleep in a temporary parking lot shelter at Cashman Center, with spaces marked…

Apr 28, 2020

Features

A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally

Hospitals have not always been sites for curing. In a 1974 lecture entitled “The Incorporation…

Apr 27, 2020

The Incidents

By Toni L. Griffin

June 2020

OP-ED

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Pandemics and the future of urban density: Michael Hooper on hygiene, public perception and the “urban penalty”

A 1908 illustration from the Virginia Health Bulletin shows urban diseases threatening the bucolic conditions…

Apr 13, 2020

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Topic Urbanism

The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing

Resources for a just recovery from the GSD’s CoDesign Field Lab

Jeffrey Schnapp on the spatial logic of quarantine: “When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?”

A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally

Design in a Frame of Emotion

Pandemics and the future of urban density: Michael Hooper on hygiene, public perception and the “urban penalty”

Open House Lecture: Ann Forsyth, “What is a Healthy Place? Cities, Neighborhoods, and Homes”

CANCELLED – Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas

The New Generic

Return to Pleasant Island: A study of Nauru Island

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