Magazine
Issue 19: The New School
Summer 2008
Are parent-cooperative institutions models for the future of urban education? Will a $1.2 billion medical complex help New Orleans’ fractured health system recover? What is the “U” word? Issue 19, “The New School,” features stories on New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, Co-op schools in Brooklyn, Demolition in Detroit, Homelessness in L.A., Escalators in Philadelphia and much more! Also, interviews with Wendy Walters, Jake Dobkin and David Wilson. Cover photo and gallery by Michael Itkoff.
Features
- EducationThe New School
Studies and teachers suggest that involving parents in their children’s schools improves the quality of education and helps build community. Then why isn’t the cooperative preschool more popular?
- Charity Case 1
For more than 250 years, New Orleans’ Charity Hospital has served the city’s poor. Now, a $1.2 billion medical complex threatens Charity’s existence — and the way the city takes care of its citizens.
- Mobilizing Mobile
Mobile and Coden, Alabama, don’t have the glamour of New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, they didn’t get the government funding or media attention, either.
Departments
- IdeasEverything Is Going To Be Alright 48
Demolition and adaptive reuse in Detroit
- IdeasHousing Mobility
The Move-to-Opportunity movement
- IdeasTaken for a Ride 5
The insanity of escalators
- LeadersGlobalization & Ghettos
An interview with professor David Wilson, an expert on the urban geography of America’s post-industrial cities.
- LeadersInvisible Cities
- EditorialThe “U” Word
- Urban HistorianAsk an Urban Historian
Etcetera
- InterviewBeyond Gotham
An interview with Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung, co-founders of the popular blog, Gothamist.
- ReviewsUrban Identities
- ReviewsDesperate House Owners
- ReviewsIndigenous Moderism
- ReviewsPlace Spacings
- ReviewsBig Thoughts For A New Era
