URBAN DESIGN STUDIO/ FALL - 95

LOWER MANHATTAN/HARLEM

URBAN ABANDONMENT

GLOBAL SHIFT IN:

• Technology
• Culture
• Environment

  Both Downtown and Harlem face the prospect of urban abandonment, downsizing and urban reprogramming based on shifting global economic forces.
  The traditional form of the city has been thrown into question by these processes. Downtown we will try to establish what are the new conditions of urbanity in a redundant, previously dense area of Manhattan, where new uses and new programming are urgently required. In Harlem we examined the arrival of a suburban supermarket typology at strategic location on 125th Street.

  	LOWER MANHATTAN
  	HARLEM

  LOCAL ABANDONMENT IN NYC

  THEME OF STUDIO

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