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MSAUD 27. SUMMER SEMESTER

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THE CITY IS MORE THAN FORM

This summer, I learned to read the city beyond buildings and physical form.

Urban space is shaped by memory, everyday life, labor, care, infrastructure, politics, and negotiation—and by the people who continuously use, contest, and remake it.

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Studio team standing together in front of the From Arrival to Displacement presentation

A line is never neutral; it decides what becomes visible.

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Present : Zine

Our group explored Club Urbanism, reading present-day Williamsburg through nightlife and the urban systems that support it. Converted warehouses, zoning, transportation, housing, workers, food vendors, noise, and street waste all become part of the same nighttime city. Through site visits, mapping, photography, interviews, and visual research, the zine documents how the same streets operate differently across day, night, and morning. Rather than treating the club as an isolated destination, we understood nightlife as a wider urban condition—one that produces culture and economic activity, but also creates pressure, conflict, and uneven impacts on the surrounding neighborhood.

MAP LAYERS / DATA02

GIS AS EVIDENCE

This present-tense investigation reads Williamsburg–Greenpoint through both top-down data and ground-up observation. GIS maps and census shifts are paired with site visits, photographs, sketches, and everyday scenes to understand how urban change becomes visible across different scales.

Our group used this method to study Club Urbanism—the way nightlife overlaps with housing, transportation, labor, converted industrial spaces, noise, waste, and everyday community life. By connecting demographic and spatial data with street-level observation, we began to see redevelopment not only as a change in land value or population, but as a change in how people gather, work, move, and remain in the neighborhood.

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Demographics report with an explanation and a venue location map

DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS

MANHATTAN BARS / BROOKLYN CLUBS

Bars cluster most strongly in Manhattan, especially around the East Village and Lower East Side, where the heatmap forms a continuous high-density field.

Nightclubs follow a different pattern. Their strongest clusters extend east toward Williamsburg and Bushwick, with a secondary concentration around the East Village and LES. The comparison shows bar activity remaining Manhattan-centered while club urbanism spreads into Brooklyn's industrial and waterfront districts.

When every point becomes data, the image begins to break apart.

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Claim and Construct

ACTORS / RULES / MOVES03

Future: Board Game

Players claim land, negotiate competing interests, and construct a shared version of Williamsburg. The game makes visible how power, resources, environmental risk, and community needs shape every urban decision—and asks whether a city can be built through collective negotiation rather than a single winner.

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Plural Futures treats the board game as a design instrument for examining how cities are produced through competing values, unequal power, and collective decisions. By translating urban conditions into roles, rules, resources, and scenarios, the studio tests negotiation, coalition-building, advocacy, and conflict as forces that shape Williamsburg–Greenpoint. The goal is not to predict one fixed future, but to make multiple civic, social, infrastructural, and ecological futures visible—and playable.

CLICK TO UNFOLD · COVER 1

As the game progresses, it becomes clear who is winning.

IMAGE / ACTOR / MOVE

PAUSED BY SCROLL

The field is not evidence until its fragments enter negotiation.

Claim and Construct board game and its pieces arranged as a complete set

Designing and testing Claim and Construct showed that movement and accumulation alone cannot explain urban change. A proposal becomes possible only when physical resources and procedural authority are assembled together. Chance cards bring actors into contact, while negotiation determines whether land, cleanup, funding, support, and approval can be aligned. Because the same board can end as a full marsh, a hybrid park, luxury development, or a stalled brownfield, play reveals how different coalitions produce different spatial futures. The prototype also exposed the limitations of our design, including funding scarcity, unequal access to Process Stamps, and excessive complexity. Although we could not resolve every issue within the project, we learned that game rules can unintentionally reproduce the same inequalities they are meant to examine—and that play can become a way to question our own assumptions about how urban decisions are made.