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sustainable community planning

Post-Sandy Resiliency Planning

Intro Paragraph: 
Hurricane Sandy exposed not only the urgent need for resiliency planning across New York City, but the disparate impact of climate change on low- and moderate-income communities and small businesses along the city’s waterfront.
Keywords: 
climate resiliency
citywide
sustainable community planning
affordable housing
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Pratt Center is working to develop community-driven long-term resiliency strategies.
Body: 

From the NYCHA tenants who lived without electricity and gas for months to the Brooklyn Navy Yard manufacturers whose equipment and inventory were destroyed, Hurricane Sandy overwhelmingly affected New Yorkers without the economic, technical and political resources to quickly respond and...

Project Status: 
Archived
Who's Working on this Project?: 
Elena Conte
Location: 
City-Wide
Status: 
Completed in 2014

Fulton Street Mall

Intro Paragraph: 
Amidst the City's broad redevelopment plan for downtown Brooklyn, Fulton Mall: New Strategies for Preservation and Planning - a Pratt Center project and report - offered strategies for securing the future of Fulton Mall as a vital public place.
Keywords: 
Brooklyn
preservation
local retail
sustainable community planning
small businesses
Pratt Center has worked to improve Fulton Street Mall's commercial strip while preserving its role as a vital public place.
Body: 

We brought historic preservation, urban planning, ethnography, community cultural development, and economic development strategies together, and coordinated them to identify economic opportunities, preserve the most important historical resources, and provide unique and useful retail for...

Project Status: 
Archived
Who's Working on this Project?: 
Vicki Weiner
Location: 
Brooklyn
Status: 
Completed in 2008

Fairness Coalition of Queens

Intro Paragraph: 
Keywords: 
Queens
affordable housing
land use
zoning
sustainable community planning
open space
parks
A diverse coalition is fighting to preserve open space and expand affordable housing in the face of several unaccountable development proposals.
Body: 
Background

The Fairness Coalition of Queens (FCQ) – an umbrella group of a dozen faith groups, immigrant and youth-serving agencies, and housing advocates – united in 2012 to respond to three contentious large scale development proposals that would have significant impacts...

Project Status: 
Active
Who's Working on this Project?: 
Elena Conte
Location: 
Queens

Green Community Plans

Intro Paragraph: 
New York City’s low- and moderate-income communities are disparately vulnerable to climate change and a range of environmental risks, such as waste transfer stations and dirty power plants. Mutually-reinforcing and interconnected, such disparities are the collective product of top-down public policies and market-driven planning largely implemented without the input and guidance of those forced to unevenly shoulder their burdens.
Keywords: 
sustainable community planning
Pratt Center works with local groups to develop green community plans – comprehensive strategies toward sustainable, resilient and prosperous neighborhoods.
Body: 

To address this, community groups in dozens of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods throughout the city have organized to plan for their futures and actively participate in the development efforts that affect their constituents’ lives. For years, Pratt Center has worked in partnership with...

Project Status: 
Archived
Who's Working on this Project?: 
Vicki Weiner
Location: 
City-Wide
Status: 
Completed in 2012

Envisioning Community Sustainability through the Arts

Keywords: 
citywide
land use
brownfields
sustainable community planning

This presentation describes Pratt Center’s practice of integrating environmental sustainability and the arts in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, and Arts East New York. Pratt Center worked with these community-based...

Research Type: 
Presentation
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Document: 
pratt_center_arts-culture-sustainability_presentation_oct_2012.pdf

Still Subsidizing Luxury Development

Keywords: 
affordable housing
sustainable community planning
citywide

This report calls for a reform of New York City's "421-a" tax exemption program to stop giving tax breaks to building owners who do not include affordable housing units. The “421-a” tax exemption program was created in the 1970s, when the city was on hard times, to...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Document: 
rpt_-_421a-still_subsidizing_luxury_development.pdf

Transforming the Sheridan Corridor

Intro Paragraph: 
For decades, the Sheridan Expressway – a 1.25 mile remnant of the Robert Moses era – has severely impeded the quality of life in Hunts Point and the surrounding communities in the South Bronx.
Keywords: 
Bronx
land use
affordable housing
zoning
transportation equity
sustainable community planning
A Bronx-based coalition is successfully leading the fight to transform the Sheridan Expressway and to create affordable housing and green open space where it used to be
Body: 

In 1999, the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance (SBRWA) was formed to work for the removal of the Sheridan Expressway and the transformation of the South Bronx into a model of sustainable land use, environmental justice, and...

Project Partners: 
Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance
Project Status: 
Active
Who's Working on this Project?: 
Elena Conte
Sydney Céspedes
Location: 
Bronx
iframe: 

A Review of Selected Incubator Kitchens & Training Restaurants

Keywords: 
locally-made food
sustainable community planning
job creation
citywide

Following up on a 2010-2011 proposal to launch a sit-down restaurant and training kitchen on Farmers Boulevard, Pratt Center produced this national review of training and incubation kitchens. This presentation profiles a series of NYC incubation kitchens, which offer affordable rents and...

Research Type: 
Presentation
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Friday, October 1, 2010
Document: 
serving_up_innovation.pdf

The Green Agenda For Jackson Heights

Keywords: 
Queens
land use
zoning
affordable housing
sustainable community planning

The Green Agenda is a plan crafted by the people of Jackson Heights to address their ecological, economic, and social concerns. From November to March 2010, Pratt Center helped facilitate a community visioning process, bringing together over 400 Jackson Heights residents to imagine a greener...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, November 1, 2010
Document: 
greenagendafor_jackson_heights.pdf

Community Board 9 Manhattan 197-a Plan

Keywords: 
Manhattan
zoning
preservation
job creation
affordable housing
land use
sustainable community planning

Community Board 9 Manhattan 197-a Plan, completed in 2007, is the compilation of work begun by the Community Board in 1998, and later revised and supported by the Office of Manhattan Borough President, a Columbia University Planning Studio, the New York City Council, the Harlem Community...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, September 24, 2007
Document: 
cb9m_final_24-sep-07.pdf

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