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The New York Public Library



presents



Architectural Explorations in Books Series Event



*Affordable Housing in New York*
<http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/12/15/affordable-housing-new-york-nicholas-dagen-bloom-matthew-gordon-lasner>



*Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matthew Gordon Lasner*

*in conversation with*

*Hillary Ballon, David Burney, Richard Dattner*

*Alexander Garvin, Frederick S. Harris*



Tuesday December 15, 2015

6:00 p.m.



Celeste Auditorium
South Court, Lower Level



The New York Public Library

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

5th Avenue at 42nd Street

New York, NY 10016

917-275-6975

 www.nypl.org

(directions) <http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman>



 Auditorium doors open to public at 5:30 p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation



*The high cost of housing has become one of New York City’s greatest
challenges. Where did this crisis come from? And how can we solve it?
Hilary Ballon, David Burney, Richard Dattner, Alexander Garvin, and
Frederick S. Harris join leading housing historians Nicholas Dagen Bloom
and Matthew Gordon Lasner in conversation about their new illustrated
collection,* *Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and
Policies that Transformed a City**.*



*Affordable Housing in New York*
<http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10548.html> sheds critical light on
these urgent questions by reexamining the highs and lows of below-market
housing in New York City over the past century. Beginning with the first
government subsidies for housing in the 1920s and continuing through the
large-scale public housing and Mitchell-Lama complexes of the 1950s and
‘60s to the community-led development and professionalized affordable
housing industries of the twenty-first century, *this discussion asks what
worked in the past and what are the city's needs today? *



The challenges are formidable, but the commitment and creativity that
brought us public housing that works, Stuyvesant Town and Co-op City, and,
more recently, tens of thousands of affordable units in privately developed
complexes like Via Verde, offer real solutions.



More than two dozen leading scholars tell the story of key figures from
Fiorello LaGuardia to Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs to Ed Koch. Over
twenty-five individual housing complexes are also profiled. Plans, models,
archival photos, and newly commissioned portraits of buildings and tenants
by *David Schalliol* <http://davidschalliol.com/> put the efforts of the
past century into social, political, and cultural context and look ahead to
future prospects.



A richly illustrated, dynamic portrait of an evolving city, the book offers
a comprehensive and authoritative history of public and middle-income
housing in New York and contributes significantly to contemporary debates
on how to enable future generations of New Yorkers to call the city home.



*Copies of Affordable Housing in New York published by Princeton University
Press in 2015 are available for purchase and signing at the end of event.*



*Nicholas Dagen Bloom* is associate professor of social science and
director of the Urban Administration program at New York Institute of
Technology.



*Matthew Gordon Lasner* is assistant professor of urban studies and
planning at Hunter College, where he teaches courses on U.S. and global
housing, urbanism, and the built environment. His research explores the
production of metropolitan U.S. space, with focus on the relationship
between the design professions, social change, the market, and the state.
He is author of the award-winning *High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban
Century *(Yale, 2012). He earned his PhD at Harvard University, MS at the
London School of Economics, and BA at Columbia University.



*Hilary Ballon* is University Professor and Professor of Urban Studies and
Architecture at NYU. She also serves as Deputy Vice Chancellor, NYU Abu
Dhabi. Ballon's scholarship focuses on cities and the intersection of
architecture, politics, and social life. Among her recent
publications/exhibitions are *The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of
Manhattan and Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New
York* (with Kenneth T. Jackson). Her academic awards include fellowships
from the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public
Library, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Andrew H. Mellon
Foundation.



*David Burney*, FAIA, is an Associate Professor of Planning and Placemaking
at the Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture and Board Chair for the
Center for Active Design. Burney worked as an architect at David Brody Bond
until 1990, when he embarked on a 24-year career as one of New York’s key
civil servants: first as director of design at NYCHA until 2003, and then
as Commissioner of the City’s Department of Design and Construction from
2004 until 2014. He is a co-author of We Build the City: New York City's
Design + Construction Excellence Program.



*Richard Dattner*, FAIA (Principal, Dattner Architects) founded the firm
bearing his name in 1964. Under his leadership and creative direction,
Dattner Architects has designed a wide variety of award-winning projects
including the Via Verde housing development in the Bronx. Richard has
taught design at Cooper Union, City College of New York, and University of
Wisconsin and has often been a visiting design critic and lecturer. He is
the author of *Design for Play and Civil Architecture–The New Public
Infrastructure*.



*Alexander Garvin* is currently president of AGA Public Realm Strategists,
Inc., a planning and design firm in New York City, and president of the
Forum for Urban Design. His extensive experience in urban planning includes
his role as managing director for NYC2012, New York City’s committee for
the 2012 Olympic bid. He has taught at Yale University for many years and
is the author of numerous articles and books, including *The American City:
What Works, What Doesn’t* and *The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities*
.



*Frederick S. Harris* has extensive experience in housing development. He
served as Executive Vice President for Development at the New York City
Housing Authority where he formulated proposals to develop mixed-use and
mixed-income housing on land owned by the Authority. Harris has extensive
private-sector experience including as Senior Vice President for
Development at Avalon Bay Communities, Inc, where he spent fourteen years
overseeing the development of 5,330 apartments with a total cost of $1.89
billion.



In its seventh year *Architectural Explorations in Books*
<http://www.nypl.org/search/apachesolr_search/%2522architectural%2520explorations%2520in%2520books%2522>,
initiated and organized by *Arezoo Moseni
<http://www.nypl.org/search/apachesolr_search/arezoo%20moseni>*, is a
series of engaging programs delving into the critical role that
architecture publications play in the understanding of contemporary urban
developments and structures. The events feature book presentations and
discussions by acclaimed architects, critics, curators, designers,
photographers and writers.



Events at The New York Public Library may be photographed or recorded. By
attending these events, you consent to the use of your image and voice by
the Library for all purposes.


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