IIT fall 2017 studio | long+narrow

Long and Narrow will research a new paradigm of urban landscapes that is taking shape. Long urban corridors of robust, strategic investment - often narrow in dimension but broad in their positive social, ecological, and economic impacts - are stretching across global cities. The High Line, Prags Boulevard, the 606, and others are driven by a desire to take advantage of peculiarly elongated urban spaces which strike a transect across neighborhoods with diverse demographic and physio-spatial organizations. Students in the seminar will inventory, analyze, and develop critical commentary on these new landscapes in the form of texts, drawings, and diagrams that will comprise a public exhibition.