Uneven Growth NYC | Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2016
- Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities
Exhibition: November 22, 2014-May 10, 2015
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NYC + Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art (MAK)
Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities is an ongoing project commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. This project comprises a series of workshops, exhibitions and a publication. Uneven Growth brings together six interdisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners to examine new architectural possibilities for six global metropolises: Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Mumbai, New York, and Rio de Janeiro. Following on the same model of the MoMA exhibitions Rising Currents and Foreclosed, each team will develop proposals for a specific city in a series of workshops that occur over the course of a 14-month initiative.
Uneven Growth seeks to challenge current assumptions about the relationships between formal and informal, bottom-up and top-down urban development, and to address potential changes in the roles architects and urban designers might assume vis-à-vis the increasing inequality of current urban development. The resulting proposals, which will be presented at MoMA in November 2014, will consider how emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature of public space, housing, mobility, spatial justice, environmental conditions, and other major issues in near-future urban contexts.
For this exhibition, Lest interstices is working with Cohabitation Strategies in addressing the ongoing uneven development across New York City’s boroughs by exposing- through local narratives- the economic, social and spatial inequalities mirrored in the unprecedented housing crisis. The narratives describe the experiences of local advocates for housing justice -citizens, activists, artists, writers, community organizers, academics and urban experts. They reveal the other New York City by exposing some of the agents and outcomes of illegal conversions, homelessness, foreclosures, land values, vacancies and re-zoned inner city areas.
The participants include Rachel LaForest, Right to the City Alliance; Rob Robinson, Take Back the Land; Frank Morales, Organizing for Occupation; Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York; Laura Gottesdiener, journalist, social justice activist and author of A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and a Fight for a Place to Call Home; Rachel Falcone and Michael Premo, Sandy Storyline and Housing is a Human Right; David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the CUNY; Harvey Epstein, Urban Justice Center; Brigette Blood, North West Bushwick; Kendall Jackman, housing campaign leader at Picture the Homeless and New York City Community Land Initiative and Brad Lander, affordable housing advocate and member of the New York City Council representing the 39th Council District in Brooklyn.
CREDITS
Uneven Growth NYC - Documentary
Produced by Cohabitation Strategies
Creative Producers: Gabriela Rendón + Miguel Robles-Durán
Directed by Jonathan Lapalme - Les interstices
Creative Director: Santiago Giraldo Anduaga
Production Manager: Raquel de Anda
Music by Rabboud Mens
Cooperative team for the exhibit
Lucia Babina, Emiliano Gandolfi, Gabriela Rendón, Miguel Robles-Durán, Guillermo Delgado, Phillip Lühl, Jonathan Lapalme, Raquel de Anda, Juan Pablo Pemberty, Santiago Giraldo and Juan Junca.
Project Advisors: David Harvey and Tom Angotti.
It's not just about homeless people, it's about working ADULTS who have to live with roommates like college students just to be able to afford a decent place to live or those with their own places who are one paycheck away from eviction or don't know if they can keep their apartment next year because the rents always go up.
Ryte even downsouth is getting expensive their building condos everywhere skinny row homes everywhere to live in the city now that the city living is more popular now use to be to get out the city and dream of owning a home in a surb area but not anymore everyone is one paycheck away from homelessness im just Thankful i have a roof over my head goverment needs to do better
The crazy thing about this documentary is that no one is talking about the fact that if you don't have good/excellent credit and make 40x the rent you can't get an apartment and if you do luck up and land one it's not gonna be in the best shape or in the nicest neighborhood, it's gonna be a piece of shit most of the times. With all the Programs that the City offers and all the vacancies throughout the 5 boroughs, there shouldn't be anyone living in the shelter system for 2,3,4,5,6 years that's just ridiculous. But the thing that I have learned about this "Homeless Issue" is that for the Politicians it's a money maker for them. They don't give a damn about you as a single person, you as a person with mental disabilities, you as a mother with kids, you as a person with physical disabilities, none of this matters to them and then you just mix everyone together in one facility or location which can be a very dangerous situation. The majority of homeless people in the shelter system in NYC is Blacks and Latinos don't get me wrong there are white people as well but who do they always show the minorities. The other thing with these Programs like Section 8, City FEPS/SEPS and others is that a lot of the landlords have already stereotyped us without even knowing us. They feel that if we're on any type of program that we're drug addicts, we're mental cases, we're alcoholics, we have really bad kids, we're destructive, we're not gonna pay our rent, we're gonna bring down the value of the neighborhood and the property, we don't want to work, we're lazy, we're looking for handouts, we didn't finish school, we're not very smart, we were all underaged mothers, we have issues with our children's fathers, we don't have good credit, we don't make enough to afford these shoe box apartments that they're offering for $2500, $2750,$2295 and the bedrooms are the size of closets so all you can do is to put a Futon in there and that's it. With all the Non-Profit Organizations that they have here in NYC and all the Housing Specialists getting paid $32k-$40k part of their job is to advocate for the people searching for apartments and they're supposed to let the landlords know what are the benefits of him/her taking the tenant with these programs but they're not doing their jobs so ppl like myself and others who have to find an apartment within the five boroughs are met with all types of challenges or obstacles that will keep us from getting affordable apartments and in nice areas like Morningside Heights and Broadway and 96th Street and why bcuz the owners figured if we turn them into Condos or Coops then we won't be able to apply bcuz they're not taking those people with programs which is so not fair. We need to fight back and let them know that what they're doing to us is very unfair. The other problem is that there are a lot of ppl out here that are homeless bcuz they became unemployed and unemployment only lasts for six months and it's hard out here trying to find a job. Again, all these Non-Profit Organizations have plenty of jobs that they can train ppl to do u don't need a Degree to be an Admin Asst. This can help many ppl it can help the unemployed bcuz now they have a job, it can help the homeless bcuz now you have ppl working their hardest to help you with your situation, it can help that drug addict or alcoholic bcuz now they feel like they're being productive and can help somebody that is going thru the same issues that they were having to get themselves together. We're like the Plague and ppl including the Politician only see us as a dollar sign and nothing more. If everyone could stop looking at our color and assuming the worst about us and our background then maybe they could help us get to where we need to be. Stop treating us like we're the damn chicken pox we're human just like everybody else in this world. Nobody asks to be homeless it just happens for various reasons beyond our control sometimes and all we want to do is to get back to living and quit just existing.
Great documentary. I would love to see an update with today's numbers. After Mayor DeBlasio's Affordable Housing plan and even after the creation of 200,000 more affordable units across NYC, I am sure the homeless statistics are even more staggering, and affordability is an even bigger issue now than 6 years ago.
Of 1% by 1% for 1% people can live in cities now
i know the city were i am homeless people have taken over banks that have been closed down and squatted in them