Focusing in the Lower East Side where there are a lot of NYCHA projects covering the shore line.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
islands of public housing
Red areas are the current NYCHA projects all over New York City. Most of the NYCHA developments were built during the period of 1945 to 1965 when Robert Moses started changing the city by clearing the old slum tenements and converting it to a modern city. Most of the projects were built under the popular idea of modernists at this time, with tower in the park style having over 1000 apartments per tower-unit.
The NYC Commissioner’s Plan, which was adopted in 1811, became the basis for the development of Manhattan in the 19th century. One interesting aspect of it is the orientation of the blocks. The large sides of the blocks were facing at south-north in order to help commercial traffic along east-west streets.
In this tissue where NYC life is taking place the NYCHA projects sited all over Manhattan. They seem they could work as a different city within another. Having the cores ready and by incorporating the network among them, the system could work as an individual layer where social and economical needs are common.
Monday, September 6, 2010
NYCHA
NYCHA was created in 1934. By the end of 1935 NYCHA dedicated First Houses, the first development, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
NYCHA is the largest public housing authority in North America. NYCHA’s Conventional Public Housing Program has 178,407 (as of April 6, 2010) apartments in 334 developments throughout the City.
Manhattan has 102 developments with 53,863 apartments
654,657 New Yorkers are served by NYCHA’s Public Housing and Section 8
NYCHA Public Housing represents 8.4% of the City’s rental apartments and is home to 4.8% of the City’s population
Families in the Conventional and Section 8 programs pay no more than 30% of their family income for rent
if NYCHA was a city it would rank 20th in population size in United States.
with 180,000 apartments to 5 boroughs, NYCHA is the largerst landlord.
urbanisation. +9 inhabitants per hour in NYC
Year Total population Year Total population
1950 2 535 093 1950 736 796
2000 6 124 123 2000 2 853 909
2010 6 906 558 2010 3 494 607
2050 9 191 287 2050 6 398 291
As the population in urban areas is increasing the demand of affordable housing is getting more important. There are some organizations providing housing to low income people.
and now..
2010. 8,391,881 people live currently in New York City. Not only did the population increased but there are ethnicities from all over the world. Just the 3,920,751 of them speak only English (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census Special Tabulation).
People’s relation to land had radically changed and since the demand for food had increased, we cannot rely on the local resources just by using the local land. The “local” land is nothing more than property containing other property and so on. Within this notion, new qualities emerged and thus new relationships among people. One important quality is the social and economical classification which has a direct impact to the environment of each individual.
400 years ago..
1609. Manhattan as it was 400 years ago. It had its own people, called Lenape. Lenape for indigenous people means “the real people”.
They used to live in three basic communities and they had one dialect: Munsee.
These people never collected more the necessary and their food was coming from local sources. As they all were living directly from their land, the notion of property was not yet introduced.
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