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NYC’s Town and Gown program on Urban Resource Recovery (URR) featured work from two Urban Design faculty-and-student research groups from the joint M Arch-UD Spring 2023 studio on the social- and environmental-justice possibilities of legacy urban industrial activities. The studio consulted with city agencies such as DDC and DSNY and other community organizations throughout the project.

“We are thrilled to be part of a critical conversation among these policy makers, schools, and researchers,” said Program Director Julio Salcedo-Fernandez.

The featured projects are “Densifying Manufacturing” by Fernando Gonzales M Arch ’24, Michael Kirschman UD ’23, Suzanne Kerr M Arch ’24, Angie Montenegro UD ’23, and Kunal Veerabhadraswamy UD ’23 and “Evolved Urban Systems” by Tanner Barr UD ’23, Samantha Gifford UD ’23, Susann Mejia Prior UD ’23, and Pauroma Tann UD ’23.

The studio’s work is tied to the URR working group’s Closing Loops City Program Initiative. This initiative outlines changes to city agency construction practices and policies that would leverage the city’s capital program to support the market and close construction and demolition waste (CDW) material loops by increasing overall direct reuse of recovered CDW materials generated on city capital projects and increasing intentional redirection of recovered CDW away from landfills to interim processing facilities as feedstock for manufacturing facilities producing new construction materials.