The Restorative City: Design Trust for Public Space announces triennial RFP winners

Every three years, New York City’s Design Trust for Public Space publishes an RFP challenge that aligns with a chosen theme related to the Trust’s mission of promoting community needs through a lens of effective and impactful design.This year’s theme, The Restorative City, addresses concerns of health equity in a city where life expectancies vary by twenty years depending on the economic and social conditions of the neighborhood. New York is still recovering from a tumultuous 18-month stretch in which it lost more than 30,000 citizens and saw heinous planning gaps exposed as a very avoidable product of natural disaster. With this in mind, the Trust has once again issued a call to action for New City’s urban planning and design professionals to address the pressing needs of the day using public health as a mandate. A look at how this year’s winners met the challenge is below. Read the full post on Bustler