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Skyscrapers: Boon or Blight?

Jason M. Barr (Rutgers, Newark), author of Building the Skyline, provides a new myth-busting history of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, as well as some thoughts on how the buildings could help Gotham meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. Lynn Ellsworth, co-founder of the coalition New Yorkers for a Human-Scale City, discusses the current protests over the De Blasio administration’s push to rezone midtown, and the new “supers” rising in the city. Alex Marshall, Senior Fellow with the Regional Plan Association, joins and moderates the discussion.











When: Thu., Mar. 16, 2017 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave.
212-817-7000
Price: Free
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Jason M. Barr (Rutgers, Newark), author of Building the Skyline, provides a new myth-busting history of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, as well as some thoughts on how the buildings could help Gotham meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. Lynn Ellsworth, co-founder of the coalition New Yorkers for a Human-Scale City, discusses the current protests over the De Blasio administration’s push to rezone midtown, and the new “supers” rising in the city. Alex Marshall, Senior Fellow with the Regional Plan Association, joins and moderates the discussion.

Buy tickets/get more info now