93. The Cities We Need

Over the past 20 years, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani has taken the question, “what, and who is the city for?” directly to the streets of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn and Mosswood in Oakland, asking locals to take her to the places that matter to them. A visual urbanist, co-founder of the interdisciplinary studio Buscada, and widely exhibited photographer, Bendiner-Viani holds a doctorate in environmental psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane

Discussed:

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY

Mosswood, Oakland, CA

Prior urbanists of “placework”:

-         Jane Jacobs

-         David Harvey – The Right to the City

-         Henri Lefebvre – Le Droit à la Ville

-         Kevin Lynch – Image of the City

-         Christopher Alexander – A Pattern Language

-         Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Diana Lind – The Human Doom Loop

The Anti-Social Century, Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

Contested City, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani