Archinect - News 2024-11-26T22:27:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/100705076/cooperative-city-cooperative-community Cooperative City, Cooperative Community Alexander Walter 2014-05-30T13:10:00-04:00 >2014-06-03T22:59:47-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f5/f5e5c743b10f6a910e81cfd290fc39d7?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Despite its distance from the center of New York City, Co-op City&rsquo;s site and scale make it prominent on the landscape [...]. Critics, historians, and even the Supreme Court have noticed as well, weighing in since construction began in 1966 on what the complex signifies for housing finance, site planning, cooperative ownership, ethnic and racial diversity, and tenants&rsquo; rights. [...] But it is far from prototypical.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>