Last Day to Catch ‘Changing Streetscapes: New Architecture & Open Space in Harlem’
Walk down almost any street in Harlem and you will see a transformation underway. Changing Streetscapes highlights recent construction and development in five areas: housing, commercial development, cultural and institutional projects, and landscape and planning. This exhibit offers a snapshot of the unfolding fabric of Harlem. The City College Architectural Center has documented the transformation underway with photos and architectural renderings of recent residential and commercial redevelopment.
1:05 PM EDT on September 9, 2006
Walk down almost any street in Harlem and you will see a transformation underway. Changing Streetscapes highlights recent construction and development in five areas: housing, commercial development, cultural and institutional projects, and landscape and planning. This exhibit offers a snapshot of the unfolding fabric of Harlem. The City College Architectural Center has documented the transformation underway with photos and architectural renderings of recent residential and commercial redevelopment.
WHEN: Tuesdays through Sundays, July 13 through October 1
WHERE: The New York Public Library Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd. at W. 135th St
FOR QUESTIONS: 212-491-2200 or visit the library website.
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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