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sustainable community planning

A Luxury Housing Subsidy New Yorkers Can't Afford

Keywords: 
affordable housing
citywide
sustainable community planning

The legislature is poised to renew a tax break to New York's real estate industry that shortchanges affordable housing.

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, June 6, 2011
Document: 
luxury_housing_subsidy_new_yorkers_cant_afford_report.pdf

Queens Triple Play: Willets West, Major League Soccer, and the National Tennis Center

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Elena Conte
Keywords: 
land use
Queens
sustainable community planning

Three separate proposals impacting Flushing Meadows Corona Park are being advanced independently – but they would cumulatively transform Queens’ flagship park, and the densely-populated neighborhoods of Corona, Flushing, and Elmhurst that surround it. This Issue Brief report...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Friday, September 21, 2012
Document: 
fmcp_9-21-12_-_queens_triple_play_final_2.pdf

Street: Magazine of the Environment

Keywords: 
50th Anniversary
community development corporations
sustainable community planning

For five years in the 1970s, Pratt Center published Street: A Magazine of the Urban Environment, a semiannual publication during the golden age of the community development movement. The magazine provided practical tools, critical analysis, and visionary ideas to the local organizations...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Saturday, November 1, 1975
Document: 
street_winter1975.pdf

Global Cities, Inequality, and the Public Realm

Keywords: 
sustainable community planning
citywide
land use

“Global Cities, Inequality and the Public Realm” – a new report by Joan Byron, Pratt Center’s Director of Policy – is the culmination of Ms. Byron’s Fellowship with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In light of the seemingly inexorable growth of...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Document: 
1375109966byron_globalcities_jul13_web_hires.pdf

421-a Geographic Exclusion Area (GEA) Existing Boundaries and Proposed Additions Overlaid With NY State Assembly Districts

Keywords: 
affordable housing
citywide
sustainable community planning

New York City’s 421-a property tax exemption program was created in the 1970s, when the city was on hard times, to encourage developers to build new housing.

Research Type: 
Maps
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Map: 
421-a Geographic Exclusion Area (GEA) Existing Boundaries and Proposed Additions Overlaid With NY State Assembly Districts

Downtown Brooklyn’s Detour: The Unanticipated Impacts of Rezoning and Development on Residents and Businesses

Keywords: 
sustainable community planning
affordable housing
zoning
Brooklyn

The stated goal of the 2004 Downtown Brooklyn Plan was to stimulate the redevelopment of the area in order to encourage its continued transformation into New York City’s third central business district.

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Document: 
prattcenter-downtown_brooklyns_detour.pdf

Preserving Local Retail: Issues and Strategies

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Vicki Weiner
Keywords: 
citywide
land use
sustainable community planning
local retail
small businesses

Presentation for the APA Metro Chapter Zoning Committee

Research Type: 
Presentation
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Document: 
prattcenter-preserving_local_retail.pdf

Sunset Park Voices in the Rezoning Process

Keywords: 
Brooklyn
sustainable community planning
zoning
land use
affordable housing

As Sunset Park awaits the results of a zoning study being conducted by the NYC  Department of City Planning, City Councilwoman Sara Gonzalez and Brooklyn Community Board 7 co-sponsored one community education workshop and two community conversations about development issues and...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, December 17, 2007
Document: 
prattcenter-sunset_park_rezoning.pdf

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