Tribute to Alison Isenberg

SACRPH mourns the passing of Alison Isenberg, long-time SACRPH member, board member (1997-2013), and past President (2009-2011). She was most recently Professor of History at Princeton University. Her contributions to this organization and the larger field are numerous. Please see our tribute for more on Dr. Isenberg’s legacy at SACRPH and beyond.

Highlight from the Journal of Planning History:

Ana García Sánchez, Ana Torres Barchino, Jorge Llopis Verdú, and Nicholas Dagen Bloom examines the success of “towers in the park” in New York City in “The ‘Tower in the Park’ in New York City (1930–1965): A Comparative Analysis between Cooperative and Public Housing.” This article focuses on cooperative and public housing’s physical aspects over the middle decades of the twentieth century through the work of two architectural firms that spent their careers designing affordable housing complexes: Herman Jessor and Frederick G. Frost. To do so, four pairs of projects were explored in more depth, belonging to four stages in the history of this typology. The analysis concludes that systemic differences between these types of housing were determined by funding and policy while showing that these architects’ design approaches were quite similar.

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