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MicroPolis Housing in New York City
July 30, 2021
Design: Studio ST Architects
Location: New York, NY, United States of America
Article by Esther Sperber, Studio ST Architects
MicroPolis Housing – what the pandemic taught us about housing, urban resilience and equity
In February, while the Covid-19 pandemic was silently raging through New York City, I wrote an Op Ed. responding to a court decision that revoked the building permit for the top 20 floors of a Manhattan luxury condominium because it used Jerrymandering style tax lot assembly tactics to justify the request for a very tall building. I suggested that we should not waste these already built floors but rather use them for affordable housing.
MicroPolis Housing NYC
New York City is home to diverse communities that create a vibrant, urban landscape. But the pandemic revealed that the city is more divided than we would like to acknowledge. While the educated and wealthy had the luxury of staying home, the city?s low- income families, immigrant population, and communities of color faced heightened challenges. Healthcare workers, frontline and essential workers continued working, often overtime, risking their own health and safety in order to provide for their families and keep the city functioning. They traveled on subways and busses to get to their jobs and risked contagion when facing customers or working in tight quarters....