Public Housing 101 2003
Where did public housing come from? Who lives there? Who makes the decisions? What does it look like? What are some of the issues facing public housing today?
These questions guided three CUP educators and eight City-as-School students through a semester of collaborative learning. We first conducted interviews with a group of public housing stakeholders, including tenants, administrators, elected officials, researchers, architects, and organizers. We then created a series of educational posters and a set of three video pieces to try to capture what we learned.
Participants
Andrea Meller, Educator
Damon Rich, Educator
Rosten Woo, Educator
André Knights, Educator
Resources & Links
Organizations
| City-as-School High School | Founded in 1972, City-as-School is a public alternative high in New York City for 11th and 12th graders who learn in the classroom and at internships around the city. |
| The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) | The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) operates public housing in New York City. |
Other
| LaGuardia and Wagner Archives | Housed at LaGuardia Community College, the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives hold an extensive collection of archival photographs of New York City public housing. |
Videos/Films
| Representing Public Housing | One of three videos made by students as part of Public Housing 101. |
Downloads
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Finding the Civic in the Situation (PDF, 809.4 KB) |
A paper by Damon Rich on some of CUP’s techniques |
Press
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‘Learning to Teach’ArchitectureFebruary 01, 2004“Architecture's educational potentials are threatened not by philistine educators or vanishing budgets, but by design culture itself.” |
Related projects
Public Housing 101 is a part of The City without a Ghetto, a series of projects that also includes
Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal
The Subsidized Landscape
Urban Renewal Activity Tables
Public Housing 101 is also related to
Entry Sequence
