What Could Mamdani’s New York Look Like?

Please join n+1 magazine for a discussion about the architecture and built environment of 21st-century urban social democracy. At once gleefully speculative and firmly grounded in the reality of governance, the conversation will roam from bike lanes to social housing to the mechanics of policymaking.

Can we have nice things? Let's figure it out together.

Speakers:
Cindi Katz, Professor and Deputy Executive Officer, CUNY Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Daphne Lundi, Managing Director, Urban Ocean Lab
Mariana Mogilevich, Editor in Chief, Urban Omnibus
Samuel Stein, geographer, urban planner, and housing policy analyst

Moderators:
Mark Krotov, Publisher and Co-editor, n+1
Colin Vanderburg, Senior Editor, n+1

About the Speakers:
Cindi Katz is a cultural geographer. She teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and has written widely on questions of social reproduction, the production of nature, the workings of the security state in everyday environments, the cultural politics of childhood, and the intertwining of memory and history in the geographical imagination.

Daphne Lundi is an urban planner and policymaker. She is the Managing Director of Urban Ocean Lab, a national climate policy think tank focused on the future of coastal cities. Previously, she served as a Deputy Director at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. She was a New City Critics fellow with the Architectural League of New York and Urban Design Forum, and an inaugural Moynihan Public Scholar at the City College of New York, where her work explored how science fiction and worldbuilding can inspire more imaginative and inclusive approaches to policy and planning. She co-leads romantic urbanism, a project on how cities can foster love, connection, and social cohesion.

Mariana Mogilevich is editor in chief of Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League of New York's publication dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city, and author of The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York.

Samuel Stein is a policy analyst who writes about the politics of planning and housing in New York City. He is the author of the book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State, and his essays have been published in such venues as n+1, New York Review of Books, and New York Review of Architecture. Other New York Reviews are encouraged to reach out to him with story ideas.

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