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exterior of the Brownsville Heritage House where BlackSpace recently renovated the reading room
A Pedagogical Approach to Planning

BlackSpace discusses its work on the Brownsville Heritage House Reading Room and its initiatives centering community-based change

ABC No Rio’s building at 156 Rivington Street in New York’s Lower East Side before it was demolished in 2016 covered in graffiti art
Homecoming

ABC No Rio is moving back to 156 Rivington Street into a new ground-up building by Paul Castrucci Architects

A volunteer for Poetic Justice, an artists collective, plants a tree in St. Louis. for the project Black Forest
“A Dynamic Sonic Portrait”

Black Forest by Poetic Justice aims to plant 40,000 trees and collect 40,000 stories across the U.S. as a memorial for Black life

The Yes Men’s Jacques Servin
Commit to the Bit

The Yes Men infiltrate art gala disguised as real estate executives to protest New York public housing demolition

Community Healing

Transform 1012 announces four shortlisted design teams vying to convert a former Ku Klux Klan “klavern” into an art center

It’s (Not) Always Sunny

Anti-gentrification Philadelphia activists rented an airplane for an Eagle’s game to send 76 Place’s developers a message

Put it to a Vote

Chelsea tenant rights coalition calls for public resolution against NYCHA, Related, Essence Section 9 housing demolition plan

Let’s Take This Outside

Maya Lin, SCAPE, Pratt, Alternative Building Industry Collective, and The Architecture Lobby partake in Climate Week NYC

The Other CLT

In New York, proposed legislation grants opportunity to tenants and community land trusts to purchase land or buildings

Speaking Truth to Power

Turkish political prisoners Ayse Mücella Yapici, Tayfun Kahraman, and Can Atalay awarded European Prize for Architecture

installation view of an exhibition on building energy with chicago skyscrapers seen through a window
Optimism On View

These four exhibitions envision a cleaner, greener, and more equitable future

People protesting against climate change
Homeward Bound

Op-ed: Climate change will bring us closer together like never before

City skyline next to large body of water. While tenants have been protected from eviction, some are asking for more
First of the Month

Temporary eviction bans roll out across America, residents ask for more

Exhibition for Equality

Traveling exhibition covers 50 years of activism in architecture and asks, ‘Now What?!’

Aesthetic Activism

Yale students design for political protest as part of seminar

Munich Residents Demand Affordable Housing Replace Parking Spaces

Crowdsourced Infrastructure: Dutch Architects ZUS Complete A Self-Initiated Footbridge

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