By Tarry Hum INTRODUCTION Brooklyn is the symbolic capital of New York City’s maker movement comprised of artisans and artists, designers, craftsmen, builders, innovators, and inventors. The adaptive reuse of the borough’s extensive industrial waterfront is integral to an innovation economy that derives social and economic value from place-based global branding. A 2015 … [Read more...] about “GET READY SUNSET PARK, ‘BROOKLYN’ IS COMING”: THE REAL ESTATE IMPERATIVES OF AN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
FROM BOB FITCH TO DONALD TRUMP: “UNFRIENDLY FIRE”
Sixth Annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture, April 27, 2017 LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York DOUG HENWOOD: Good afternoon, and welcome to the sixth annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture. When I gave the first, in March 2012, I was nervous there wouldn’t be a second, but now we’ve gone way beyond that. Bob was a brilliant polymath—and a … [Read more...] about FROM BOB FITCH TO DONALD TRUMP: “UNFRIENDLY FIRE”
ROBERT FITCH: A TRUE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
Fifth Annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture, May 5, 2016 LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York IN MEMORIAL: These words, contributed by our editorial board member Samuel Stein, are an excerpt of a tribute read at Peter Kwong’s memorial service in May of 2017. As Samuel points out, Peter was heavily invested in bringing out the contributions of … [Read more...] about ROBERT FITCH: A TRUE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
AN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT IN PUERTO RICO HAS BECOME THE WORLD’S FIRST FAVELA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
By Laura Bachmann In San Juan, Puerto Rico, government, residents, and technical professionals created a Community Land Trust (CLT), known locally as Fideicomiso de la Tierra, to preserve and develop informal communities along the Martín Peña Canal. A specially created public corporation, ENLACE, regularized land holdings in the communities, developed fair relocation … [Read more...] about AN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT IN PUERTO RICO HAS BECOME THE WORLD’S FIRST FAVELA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
RESURRECTING BOB FITCH: RECOVERING SOLIDARITY, RECLAIMING SOULS
Second Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture, May 13, 2013 LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York DOUG HENWOOD: It was a great honor to give the first Bob Fitch memorial lecture, and it’s a great honor to be introducing the second. Those of you who heard me a year ago, or read the text on the web, may remember that I knew Bob for about 20 years, but I’d … [Read more...] about RESURRECTING BOB FITCH: RECOVERING SOLIDARITY, RECLAIMING SOULS