Brooklyn

At this stage in planning and development, as long as the city's planning method is to react to the proposals of developers like Ratner, rather than leading the way with form-based codes that suggest form, character and mass, New York City will get few proposals which "use current demand and popularity as an opportunity to remedy a neighborhood's "deficiencies" ... and make such neighborhoods more resilient and less likely to lose popularity in future down times."

(from an earlier post on Atlantic Yards)

Under Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden, New York City has used pro-active planning in several parts of the city. Particularly along the waterfront, where some citizens think the Department has been too pro-developer in its upzoning, while others like the results. But the  Atlantic Yards process has been a reactive one,and it has clearly favored the developer's bank balance over the making of a good city. In the University of Miami studio, we will use the form of the city and the neighborhoods to code and design a better city. We hope that the residents of Park Slope and Fort Greene will like the results.

Download the description of the Brooklyn studio.