City Planning | Yale Urban Media Project

Oak Street Historical Society Signage

Project

When Route 34 was built through the heart of New Haven in the late 1950s, it meant the displacement of the Oak Street neighborhood. In 2016, YSOA students Maddy Sembler, Justin Leonard, Jason Kurzweil, and Matthew Zuckerman formed an Oak Street Historical Society to create a “historical wayfinding system,” retrieving quotations from the New Haven Redevelopment Agency archives and other sources that were used in the discourse of Urban Renewal and printing them on corrugated plastic signs.

Spaces for Democracy: The Goffe Street Armory as Civic Infrastructure

Event

As part of the series “Democracy in America,” a collaboration between Public Humanities at Yale and the New Haven Free Public Library, Elihu Rubin will be in conversation with Matthew Jacobson to discuss the topic “Spaces for Democracy: The Goffe Street Armory as Civic Infrastructure.”

It's Our Armory!

Event

Interactive exhibit and group discussion at the Armory Community Garden.

Armory Workshop

Event

An afternoon of community gardening and interactive group activities about the past, present, and future of the Goffe Street Armory. Activities included a building scavenger hunt; history newsprint; postcards to the city; Armory power-mapping; and futures chalkboard.

An Interpretive Tour of New Haven Parks

Project

“The aim of this booklet is to take you on a tour of New Haven through space and through history to examine what this city’s parks have been, are now, and can be in the future. Thank you for reading.”

Grand Avenue Interactive Mapping

Project

In anticipation a lengthy construction closure of the Grand Avenue Bridge, the New Haven Economic Development Administration hosted an event to celebrate the bridge and engage residents in the surrounding neighborhoods of Fair Haven and Fair Haven Heights.

Armory Newsprint 1.1

Project

Digital edition of a printing of 1,000 copies of The Armory Newsprint 1.1.

Interactive print engagement with the Goffe Street Armory. Includes editorial by co-chairs of the Armory Community Advisory Committee, Nadine Horton and Elihu Rubin. Distributed at Gather New Haven Festival, September 18, 2022.

Excavating the Armory

Project

A participatory exhibit about the past, present, and future of the New Haven Armory on Goffe Street. Excavating the Armory launched at City-Wide Open Studios Armory Weekend, October 14 & 15, 2017, and continues as an online forum and citizen organization with the goal of conserving the Armory as a shared civic resource. We join those who care about the future of the Armory and invite your participation.

At the Armory, we created a five-part strategy to uncover the physical and social qualities and potentials of the building:

What Works: The Planning and Development Legacy of Alexander Garvin

Event

The symposium, honoring Alexander Garvin (1941–2021), is convened by Dean Deborah Berke and Lecturer Antonia Devine M.Arch ‘13, as a celebration of his life and an exploration of his contributions to the fields of architecture, planning, and development.

Armory Voices

Project

A 3 min. 33 sec. sound montage from the Armory Workshop at the Gather New Haven Health and Wellness Festival in Goffe Street Park on September 18, 2022.

Excerpt:
“Hello Justin [Justin Ellicker, Mayor of New Haven], this is one of your taxpayers, Cynthia Harrison. The Armory; we should make it a small business enterprise zone. It has been sitting here rotting away for many years and it is a disgrace for this beautiful building, which is more than 150,000 square feet, to go to waste. Do something with it, and do it now. It’s 2022. Thank you.”