Foreclosed, a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, shows ways of radically rethinking suburbia, homeownership and housing. But are such drastic measures what the suburbs really need? — Next American City
Also, see on Archinect: The CRIT: Thoughts on MoMA's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
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an eye-opener from the article:
The 2010 Census noted that on the prime East Side of Manhattan “about 30 percent of the more than 5,000 apartments are routinely vacant more than 10 months a year because their owners or renters have permanent homes elsewhere… Since 2000, the number of Manhattan apartments occupied by absentee owners and renters swelled by more than 70 percent, to nearly 34,000, from 19,000.” This commodification of New York and its experiences is almost enough to make one nostalgic for the guilelessness of a 1st-generation strip mall.
WORK, Michael Meredith, Jeanne Gang, Andrew Zago... not exactly the great urban thinkers of our day. Bizarre exhibit - a bit of an embarrassment for MOMA.
toast that statistic gives another perspective to discussion about density in NY. i wonder more generally if the same sort of ratio (of owned but not occupied) can be found in many high value (per sq ft) urban locales both in US but also international. Or is maybe Manhattan an outlier in that way, because it is THE international city of cities..?
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