Urbanism Now99% Invisible has a great episode about how Co-op City in the Bronx, the world’s largest housing cooperative, provides affordable living for ordinary people, despite its complex history of union organizing, urban renewal, and resident strikes. (43 minutes)
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/664-co-op-city/
#urbanism #urbanplanning #AffordableHousing #CooperativeHousing #CoopCity
Co-op City - 99% Invisible
Driving into New York City from the north, an unavoidable cluster of thirty-five identical brick high-rises dominates the horizon just past the Bronx border. All of them over twenty stories tall, all with the same brick facades. They’re easily mistaken for a public housing project. But the complex is Co-op City, the largest housing cooperative
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