Leaving room for the social in a neoliberal economic current: Three phases of urban planning for Roosevelt Island, NYC

Yavo-Ayalon, Sharon

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.103580

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“…Figure 1 shows the location of the island and its demographics. The development of the island was the first mixed-race, mixed-income community development project, and one of the only to be publicly funded (Freemark 2011; Yavo-Ayalon 2022 a ). It consisted entirely of affordable units with tenants protected under ML Housing Program.…”

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Affordability with an Expiration Date: A Microsimulation for Estimating the Demographic Changes Caused by Deregulation of Assisted Housing

Yavo-Ayalon

Levine

Sussman

et al. 2023

Urban Affairs Review

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This research turns the spotlight to the deregulation of once publicly funded affordable housing. Through a microsimulation that follows the conversion from affordable to market-rate units on Roosevelt Island New York, we estimate the expected demographic changes each year between 1976 and 2070. The simulation combines information from the American Community Survey, the island's masterplan, the privatization agreements, and interviews with residents, to produce interactive graphs at three urban scales: the neighborhood, the project, and the building. We found that while the households of market-rate units are gradually becoming younger and more affluent, the households of affordable units are becoming older and more impoverished. Despite an individual agreement for each building, the demographic changes are similar, and that, those changes will affect low-income buildings first. Moreover, upon expiration, 30 percent of the existing protected tenants will be over 65 and at risk of being displaced. The simulation is available at http://ridigitaltwin.pythonanywhere.com/ .

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Affordability with an Expiration Date: A Microsimulation for Estimating the Demographic Changes Caused by Deregulation of Assisted Housing

Yavo-Ayalon

Levine

Sussman

et al. 2023

Urban Affairs Review

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Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR)

Yavo-Ayalon

Joshi

Zhang

et al. 2023

MTI

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Situated and shared experiences can motivate community members to plan shared action, promoting community engagement. We deployed and evaluated a communal extended-reality (CXR) bus tour that depicts the possible impacts of flooding and climate change. This paper describes the results of seven community engagement sessions with a total of N = 74 members of the Roosevelt Island community. We conducted pre- and post-bus tour focus groups to understand how the tour affected these community members’ awareness and motivation to take action. We found that the unique qualities of immersive, situated, and geo-located virtual reality (VR) on a bus made climate change feel real, brought the consequences of climate change closer to home, and highlighted existing community resources to address the issue. Our results showed that the CXR experience helped to simulate a physical emergency state, which empowered the community to translate feelings of hopelessness into creative and actionable ideas. Our finding exemplifies that geo-located VR on a bus can be a powerful tool to motivate innovations and collective action. Our work is a first-of-its-kind empirical contribution showing that CXR experiences can inspire action. It offers a proof-of-concept of a large-scale community engagement process featuring simulated communal experiences, leading to creative ideas for a bottom-up community resiliency plan.

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Leaving room for the social in a neoliberal economic current: Three phases of urban planning for Roosevelt Island, NYC

Cited by 2 publications

References 27 publications

Affordability with an Expiration Date: A Microsimulation for Estimating the Demographic Changes Caused by Deregulation of Assisted Housing

Affordability with an Expiration Date: A Microsimulation for Estimating the Demographic Changes Caused by Deregulation of Assisted Housing

Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR)

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