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Report

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

Pratt Planning Papers: January 1967

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Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Sunday, January 15, 1967
Document: 
pcci_-_1967_report.pdf

Urban Manufacturing Alliance 2nd National Convening Summary Report

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Tanu Kumar
Adam Friedman
Keywords: 
urban manufacturing
nationwide
land use
local manufacturing

The Urban Manufacturing Alliance (UMA) 2nd National Convening, held in Oakland, California in early October, brought together more than 70 manufacturing and economic development professionals representing 40 organizations from 25 cities. This year’s convening theme, “Priming the...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Growing a More Equitable Economy
Date: 
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Document: 
uma-2nd-national-convening_report.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

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

Making Willets Point Work for New York

This report was prepared by the Pratt Center for Community Development and is the result of extensive conversations over several months involving several hundred residents of the communities surrounding Willets Point (especially Corona, Flushing, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst), workers and...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Document: 
prattcenter-making_willets_point_work.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

Platform for Responsible Redevelopment of the Gowanus Canal

Keywords: 
Brooklyn
sustainable community planning
affordable housing
land use
zoning
urban manufacturing
local manufacturing

We believe that the rezoning and development of the Gowanus Canal area provides a great opportunity for our community.

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, October 15, 2007
Document: 
prattcenter-gowanus_summit-principles_for_responsible_development_0.pdf

Coney Island for All

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Vicki Weiner
Paula Crespo
Keywords: 
job creation
affordable housing
local retail
preservation
land use
zoning
Brooklyn
sustainable community planning

A coalition of community, labor, and housing organizations concerned with the future of Coney Island has joined in support of Coney Island for All: A Platform for Equitable Development, on which the Pratt Center for Community Development served as a key advisor.

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, April 6, 2009
Document: 
coney_island_for_all_platform.pdf

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