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
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
