Deborah Grossberg Katz
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Private/Public
Positioning design as an effective tool for developing and improving preventative solutions to homelessness, Private/Public addresses the spatial needs of the homeless service providers who supply housing, health care, treatment programs, and drop-in centers to the city’s homeless and at-risk populations. Emphasizing the possibilities for privacy within the public realm, the project complicates the separation between private and public spaces in the city. (Collaboration with Terri Chiao, 2008-2009)
Justice Reinvestment New Orleans
Mapping incarceration in post-Katrina New Orleans. (Collaboration with Laura Kurgan and the Spatial Information Design Lab, 2009)
Architects Turned Developers
With a booming real estate market and an ever-increasing general appreciation for good design, more and more architects are betting their own hard-earned cash that their skills will pay off in the development business. (The Architect's Newspaper, 2005)
Mall City
Critics have long cried foul over the construction of malls in New York City's densest borough, and in recent years developers have dropped the term in favor of euphemisms like "vertical retail environment." (The Architect's Newspaper, 2005)
Invisible Memorial
After seven years of fits and starts, the United States General Services Administration's project to memorialize downtown's African Burial Ground is taking off again. But does the latest series of public forums really mean the process is back on track? (The Architect's Newspaper, 2004)
OPP
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