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Matta-Clark developed the idea of "anarchitecture" - a conflation of the words anarchy and architecture - to suggest an interest in voids, gaps, and left-over spaces

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8 months ago

Every option has a valid series of arguments for and against: Wouldn't access to government funds via grants and tax breaks to the businesses drive rents even higher, like has happened with college tuition? If a property owner wants to keep their property vacant, isn't that their right?

VACANT NEW YORK

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a year ago

Like many other U.S. cities, Buffalo, New York, struggles with issues of urban blight-think vacant lots filled with trash and weeds-and food deserts where residents lack access to stores selling fresh, healthy food. In response, a local nonprofit is transforming these empty lots into gardens blooming with flowers, vegetables, and fruit.

Revitalizing Vacant City Lots to Feed...

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Updated a year ago

The lot, four-tenths of an acre in size, once comprised four separate parcels. Foreclosure records indicate that in 1991, "the unknown heirs etc. of Willie James Smedley, a k a James Trask, deceased" lost title to part of the lot. (They had fallen behind by $4,155.70 on property taxes.)

Finding the Potential in Vacant Lots -...

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Updated a year ago

Back in April 2010, a group of people used a tool called MapPLUTO, a product of the earthbound Department of City Planning, to pinpoint the amount of unused, city-0wned land in Brooklyn. They found both the answer and their project's name: 596 Acres.

Growing on Vacant Brooklyn Lots,...

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Updated a year ago

While interning two years ago at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Karen Orlando would often gaze longingly from the roof of her apartment building in Prospect Heights to a lot below on Sterling Place. The three-quarter-acre site where a parking garage had once stood had degenerated into an empty, dirt-filled tract.

In Vacant Lots and Backyards, a Flower...

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Updated a year ago

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