Sustaining Peace in an Urban World

On December 14, 2016, Terreform co-sponsored the event Sustaining Peace in an Urban World with the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at NYU, UN-Habitat, PBSO, the Dutch and Australian missions to the UN, the Global Alliance for Urban Crises and FAST. Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp from Terreform spoke alongside the UN Assistant Secretary-Generals Izumi Nakamitsu of UNDP and Oscar Fernandez Taranco of Peacebuilding Support and leading experts, such as Sarah Cliffe and Gizem Sucuoglu from the CIC at NYU.  

All That is Solid Melts in the Bronx

On November 17th, Terreform hosted an evening at City Lore celebrating Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall Berman. 

A scholar, advocate, and public intellectual, Berman gave generations a new way of thinking about what it means to be modern. The program included a panel discussion featuring Jennifer Corby, Jamie Aroosi, Joan Ockman, Ali Mirsepassi, and Marta Gutman; and a special screening of Henry Chalfant’s archival footage of Marshall Berman in his native Bronx.

Learn more about the event on Facebook, and watch the Facebook Live video below:

UR Books: Urban Criticism in Metropolis

In 2016, Terreform launched its publishing imprint, UR (Urban Research). UR is a medium for disseminating our work and as a support structure for designers and researchers who share the project of a progressive and liberated urbanism.

UR was featured in Metropolis Magazine:

Urban Research Books, a new publishing imprint from the New York-based nonprofit Terreform, hopes to examine the politics that govern every city, offering a critical analysis of them. The publisher's diversity and geographic reach is driven by the acknowledgement that no single discourse can satisfactorily account for the complexity and sheer extent of either the idea or the face of the city. — Samuel Medina, Metropolis, October 2016, Vol.36(3), p.46: