Terreform is an independent, urban research and advocacy center founded in 2005. Its mission is to investigate the forms, policies, technologies, and practices that will yield equitable, sustainable, and beautiful cities for our urbanizing planet.

Terreform is a non-profit 501(c)(3), urban research studio and advocacy group

founded in 2005 by Michael Sorkin. Its mission is to investigate the forms,

policies, technologies, and practices that will yield equitable, sustainable, and

beautiful cities for our urbanizing planet.

Terreform works as a “friend of the court,” dedicated to raising urban

expectations and to disseminating innovative and progressive ideas as widely as

possible. We undertake self-initiated investigations into both local and global

issues and make research available to community and other organizations to

support independent environmental and planning initiatives.

Terreform gained public attention and critical acclaim in 2006 with

Project Loisaida 2106, a proposal for the History Channel’s City of the

Future competition. Like much of Terreform’s work, it focused on New York

City, our home and primary field of speculation. With a scheme imagining

a post-automotive and resilient Lower East Side, Project Loisaida won the

competition’s Infiniti Award.

New York City (Steady) State, our ongoing research project, is a

comprehensive investigation into urban self-sufficiency. While centered on

New York, it is intended to raise issues and propose solutions for cities around

the world that seek to take radical measures to secure their respiration and

autonomy and to achieve a more sustainably democratic polity, founded in

the local. This research was featured in the United States Pavilion at the 2010

Venice Biennale and will be published in a series of forthcoming volumes.

In addition to New York City (Steady) State, we are engaged in a variety

of projects that include speculations on sites in such vexed environments as

Gaza, post-Sandy New York, and Yachay, a new technopole in the Ecuadorean

highlands.

In 2014, Terreform launched its publishing imprint, UR (Urban Research).

UR is intended both as a medium for disseminating our work and as a support

structure for designers and researchers who share the project of a progressive

and liberated urbanism.

Mission

New York City (Steady) StateNew York City (Steady) State explores the morphologies and technologies that

might enable an autonomous and self-sufficient New York City. Under the

framework of Steady State, Terreform has been investigating the possibility

of the city’s ecological footprint becoming co-terminus with its political

boundaries. This fantasy of autarky opens up an exploration of the wide range

of combinations of environmental, architectural, and social conditions that

support urban life.

The first volume of the study — devoted to food — is nearing completion and

volumes on waste, air, water, climate, and movement are underway. Future

areas of study include energy, manufacturing, and building. Our goal is not

simply to test the marginal possibility of complete urban self-responsibility in

New York but also to compile an encyclopedia of forms and technologies that

can help bring cities around the world closer to harmonizing their demands

with the bearing capacity of the earth.

Projects

GowntownIn Gowntown, Terreform investigates the impact of Columbia University’s

expansion into Upper Manhattan and proposes strategies of transformative

leverage that can provide broad and focused benefit, countering an urbanism

of trickle-down and gentrification. Gowntown proposes a planning paradigm

focused on carefully designed — as well as spontaneous — institutional and

environmental connections. Our plan suggests that by improving the physical

and social linkages between educational, cultural, and human service

institutions, their collective positive impact on the communities they inhabit

can be greatly augmented.

The project argues that by breaking down the silos that typically house

these institutions, the city is better served. Although it looks broadly at a large

area, Gowntown eschews narrow planning prescriptions in favor of a series

of propositions that operate in formal, environmental, and social spheres. It

also seeks to address the broader — and highly fraught — issue of the expansion

of urban universities, seeking to identify strategies for generating positive

impacts on their surrounding neighborhoods.

Spatial Ethnography LabThe Spatial Ethnography Lab is committed to developing new, experimental

methodologies connecting ethnographic research at the local, micro-scale to

research at increasingly larger scales using data visualization techniques and

landscape ecology analysis. The lab’s associates are drawn from a network

of academics and practitioners with long term research interests in specific

places, connected to each other through previous collaborative work and

exchange. Our current projects are based in Mumbai, India, Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil and the Nile River Delta, Egypt and we are committed to adding sites

and projects incrementally based on associates’ interests. Spatial Ethnography

Lab is a new initiative of Terreform and was founded by Vyjayanthi V. Rao and

Vineet Diwadkar. For more information, please visit: www.se-l.net.

Open Gaza Gaza is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into

a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live

under siege. For urban scholars, activists, and designers alike, Gaza presents

a unique political and ethical problem space. Terreform has brought together

a large, collaborative, group of architects, urban designers, social scientists,

and cultural theorists to think through how this situation might be changed.

Can planning, design, and technology aid in advancing a more just and humane

urbanism? What kinds of research and representation are required to assist

these projects and speculations?

We know from the outset that the “footprint” of Gaza extends — must

extend — far beyond its political borders and the imaginaries that confine it to

its present physical boundaries. Our objective is not to elaborate a model that

obliges Gaza to “live within its means,” but to unpack ideas about both limits

and possibilities. Through essays, colloquies, and designs, we are investigating

the nature, variety, and permeability of the membranes — material and

immaterial — that limn both the physical and conceptual space of Gaza.

The Next Helsinki Together with independent arts organization Checkpoint Helsinki and labor

rights initiative, G.U.L.F., Terreform launched The Next Helsinki, a call for

ideas to highlight the potential effects of the Guggenheim-sponsored design

competition for a museum in Helsinki. Our aim was to elevate the debate

about the fantasy of a high-concept museum as an urban solution by giving

voice to bold and thoughtful alternatives. We called on the design and urbanist

communities, poets, musicians, and “ordinary” citizens to freely imagine how

Helsinki and its South Harbor could be transformed for the maximum benefit of

residents and visitors. We received a range of ideas and provocations addressing

issues such as sustainability, the formation of neighborhoods, movement

systems, boundaries, local support for art communities, and other urban issues

that a large, multinational “branded” museum may not prioritize. Through

The Next Helsinki, we continue the various strands of discussions about how a

city — the greatest collective work of art ever conceived — builds for the future.

The Case of Yachay In this project, Terreform and a group of collaborators interrogate the logic

of the Technopole as an instrument of development by studying the specific

case of Yachay, a new “knowledge city” in northern Ecuador. Such cities

are being produced across the global south, with the view that more Silicon

Valleys offer salvation from the geopolitical and economic realities of the

region. We question these forms of growth, which isolate the development

of scientific knowledge and technological prowess from the surrounding

community, its needs, and its well-being. We argue that the production of

knowledge is not an isolated endeavor that divides intellectual elites from

ordinary citizens and show how this practice can be given shape through

spatial development and integration.

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Second Growth: Call for IdeasSecond Grown is an initiative concerned with patterns of succession for a

ubiquitous environment of modernity, whether found on the vast peripheries

of the cities of China, in new developments in India, or in the mass housing

projects that checker Europe and America. We all know the pattern: the

disengaged, uniform, towers, employment at a distance, a life without streets,

no culture, minimal infrastructure, boredom, estrangement, the concrete

denial of neighborliness.

What will happen next? Second Growth is a speculation about transforming

these places into sustainable, humane, equitable, and beautiful environments.

The ambition of the project is not to investigate this too general condition

but to propose — with aspirations both practical and polemical — forms and

directions for its transformation.

We invite contributions in the forms of texts, designs, and documentations

that address this archipelago of sites at the intersection of cities, design,

urbanization, and sustainability. For more information, please go to

www.terreform.info/secondgrowth.

QROWQROW (Queensway Right-of-Way) is a policy initiative developed by Terreform

to insure safe passage for citizens on and around the proposed Queensway

elevated park. Developed as a counter response, we raised the issue of

NYPD’s stop-and-frisk activity around the neighborhood and proposed

the construction of temporary accessory structures on and alongside the

Queensway. The structures serve as observation towers to facilitate the

monitoring and documentation of all stop-and-frisk activity by the NYPD. The

initiative, in the form of a new ordinance for the city, creates a framework for

citizen oversight of the police force.

28+28+ takes its name from the elevation above which the city is “safe” from

floods. We have designed a barrier that connects this contour, beginning from

a ridge at the end of the Rockaways, running along the peninsula, crossing

Jamaica bay, and meeting at the Verrazano Narrows. The levee we propose is

habitable. Not only does it allow the protection of buildings otherwise at risk,

it increases the stock of waterfront residences and commercial spaces and

improves public transit connections to the rest of the city.

Self-Sufficient SkyscraperAt the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, Terreform proposed the recycling

of a derelict skyscraper to become a largely closed loop — a sustainable

vertical neighborhood. Housing 500 people, it would harmonize inputs and

outputs — with some necessary reliance on external sources — to provide an

environmentally autonomous building. Although this proposal provides an

infrastructure of conviviality it does not seek to be an enclave: the social life

of the city must span all its scales and places.

Our Cities OurselvesTerreform’s proposal for a car-free New York City foregrounds the social

logic of movement, not merely the physics of bodies in space. The project is

predicated on an idea about urban circulation that grows from a vision not of

speed and isolation of modes, but of slow motion and mix.

The image of roiling sea of pedestrians, scooters, bullock carts, cars,

buses, trucks, elephants, bikes, and of course, those enabling cows may not

be precisely the model for New York but it suggests characteristics that seem

extremely relevant. The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

commissioned and exhibited this project in New York City, Brazil and Mexico.

This is NewarkIn 2009, Terreform was invited by the City of Newark, New Jersey Division of

Planning & Community Development to submit a proposal for “This Is Newark,”

an initiative to create a series of “gateways” for the city. We proposed a system

of Green Gateways, acupuncture points that provide an embracing threshold

of living landscape. We suggested combining various greenways throughout the

city, including its linear park, waterways, and disused rail routes.

New Algiers Working with colleagues from Tulane University, Terreform was involved in

producing an archive, book, and conference devoted to the architectural

and planning response to Hurricane Katrina. In addition, Terreform created

a design proposal for a system of self-financing, habitable levees along the

Mississippi River that joins the larger project’s compendium of responses.

For more information on our current and completed projects please see: www.terreform.info/projects

Project Loisaida 2106Project Loisaida 2106 was a proposal to imagine a post-automotive and

resilient Lower East Side for the History Channel’s City of the Future

competition. The project received the competition’s Infiniti Award.

City Service is an informal cooperative of urban specialists—coordinated by

Terreform—who have joined together to facilitate the rapid creation of new

cities. We have united not simply in response to the exponential urbanization

of the planet—the addition of over a million people to our cities each week—

but more specifically to address the crisis of the shocking number (over

15,000,000) of political and economic refugees gathered in hopeless camps.

We are now organizing ourselves to create a “model” city for approximately

25,000 people. We’re provisionally focused on a site in Haiti that has recently

become home for a very large colony of refugees expelled from the Dominican

Republic. We believe that, if properly mobilized, we can produce initial plans

in a matter of months and begin building as soon as harmonious engagement

with local stakeholders is assured. Of course, this will depend on negotiating

a series of economic and political obstacles—the organization of a parallel

operational infrastructure of Haitians—but we have, collectively, enough

experience designing cities, systems, and buildings from scratch (in Haiti,

among other places) to know that our part of the process can happen fast.

We seek first to rapidly provide shelter, livelihood, and amenity for a

population that is simply bereft. But our larger objective—which we hope

to duplicate again and again—is to demonstrate a possibility: bypassing the

indefinite squalor and indignity of the refugee camp by affirming the right to

a permanent home and livelihood in place. For more information, please visit:

www.terreform.info/cityservice.

Our Partners

MASS Design Group

LEVEL Infrastructure

ARCHIVE Global

Jonathan Kirschenfeld Architect PC

Terrence Curry, SJ, AIA

Hoffman Brandt Projects

Marshall Moya Design

Michael Sorkin Studio

UR is a series of books that focuses on speculation about and analysis of the

world’s cities. Understanding that no single discourse is adequate to confront

the promise and problems of the urban, we publish a wide range of progressive

ideas and designs and welcome proposals for future books.

Our forthcoming list includes projects ranging from the practical to the

utopian, from community-generated plans for neighborhood transformation

to outstanding outcomes from academic studios, to visionary speculations by

designers burning the midnight oil, and to collations of scholarly arguments

about the most urgent issues of urban growth and survival.

Our remit is to get the word out about solutions that exceed the

imaginative reach of “official” planning and design, and to encourage the most

vigorous forms of debate. UR, the imprint of Terreform, seeks to become the

default venue for individuals and organizations engaged in progressive urban

research, design, and critical advocacy.

(Urban Research)

UR04

Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall BermanJennifer Corby, Editor

Contributors: Jamie Aroosi; Marshall Berman; Todd Gitlin; Marta Gutman; Owen Hatherley; Esther Leslie; Andy Merrifield; Ali Mirsepassi; Joan Ockman; Kirsteen Paton; Robert Snyder

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Waterproofing New YorkDenise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Editors

Contributors: Lance Jay Brown; Nette Compton; Deborah Gans; Jeffrey Hou; Lydia Kallipoliti; Signe Nielsen; Kate Orff; Thaddeus Pawlowski; Sandra Richter; Janette Sadik-Khan; Hilary Sample; Judd Schechtman; Gullivar Shepard; Michael Sorkin; Byron Stigge; Erika Svendsen, Lindsay Campbell, Nancy F. Sonti and Gillian Baine; Georgeen Theodore

UR01

Gowntown: A 197-x Plan for Upper Manhattan Terreform

UR06

Mahometan & Celestial’s Encyclopaedic Guide to ModernityComprising a Manual of Useful Instruction Essential to Attainment of the Urbane by the Savage, the Barbarous, and the Half-Civilized AlikeSteven Flusty with Pauline C. Yu

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Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab UprisingsDeen Sharp and Claire Panetta, Editors

Contributors: Khaled Adham; Susana Galán; Azam Khatam; C. Lanthier; Ed McAllister; Julie Mehretu; G. Ollamh; Duygu Parmaksızoglu; Aseel Sawalha; Helga Tawil-Souri

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2100: A Dystopian UtopiaThe City After Climate ChangeVanessa Keith / StudioTEKAIntroduction by Saskia Sassen

UR Books may be purchased at urpub.org

Forthcoming UR Books

New York City (Steady) State: Home GrownTerreform

Gregory Ain and the Social Landscape: From the Single-Family House to Cooperative HousingAnthony Fontenot

Occupy All Streets: The Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Competition Over Urban FuturesBruno Carvalho, Mariana Cavalcanti and Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli Editors

Contributors: Renata Bertol; Bruno Carvalho; Mariana Cavalcanti; Gabriel Duarte; Beatriz Jaguaribe; Guilherme Lassance; Bryan McCann; Julia O’Donnell; Scott Salmon; Lilian Sampaio; Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli; Theresa Williamson

Kongjian Yu: Letters to the Mayors of ChinaTerreform, Editor

Contributors: Weiwei Ai; Thomas J. Campanella; Nic Cavell; Zhongjie Lin; Qingyun Ma; Xuefei Ren; Peter. G. Rowe; Michael Sorkin; Daniel Sui; Julie Sze; Robin Visser

Open GazaTerreform, Editor

50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary MumbaiVyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli with Vineet Diwadkar

New York City (Steady) State: Waste NotTerreform

The Helsinki Effect: A Public Alternative to Culture Driven DevelopmentTerike Haapoja, Andrew Ross and Michael Sorkin, Editors

Contributors: Miguel Robles-Duran; Terike Haapoja; Juhani Pallasmaa; Andrew Ross; Michael Sorkin; Kaarin Taipale; Mabel Wilson; Sharon Zukin

El Helicoide: From Futuristic Mall to Panoptic PrisonCeleste Olalquiaga and Lisa Blackmore, Editors

Contributors: Fabiola Arroyo; Carola Barrios; Lisa Blackmore; Angela Bonadies; Carlos Brillembourg; Erik del Búfalo; Cheo Carvajal; René Davids; Vicente Lecuna; Celeste Olalquiaga; Juan José Olavarria; Sandra Pinardi; Simón Rodriguez Porras; Iris Rosas; Tomás Straka; Patricio del Real; Jorge Villota

Why Yachay?Cities, Knowledge, and DevelopmentTerreform, Editor

Contributors: Tom Angotti; Nicholas Anastasopoulos; Xabier E. Barandiaran and David Vila-Viñas; Felipe Correa; Ana María Durán; María Cristina Gomezjurado Jaramillo; Mauricio Moreno; Jorge Ponce Arteta; Thomas Purcell, Maribel Cadenas Álvarez and Miquel Fernández-González; Miguel Robles-Duran; Michael Sorkin; Achva Benzinberg Stein; Japhy Wilson and Manuel Bayón

Zoned Out:Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York CityTom Angotti and Sylvia Morse, Editors

Contributors: Tom Angotti; Philip DePaolo; Peter Marcuse; Sylvia Morse; Samuel Stein

Who Owns Your Space? Confronting Privatization by Designing New Publics Quilian Riano

An Atlas of Extraordinary Rendition: Space, Sovereignty and Torture in the Global War on TerrorJordan H. Carver

PeopleTerreform is a collaborative group of designers, social scientists, and urban

researchers with experience in academia, private practice, public interest

organizations, government and community activism.

Michael Sorkin, President, is an architect and urbanist whose practice spans design, criticism, and pedagogy. Since 2000, Sorkin has been Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at City College of New York. He is the architecture critic for The Nation, contributing editor at Architectural Record, and author or editor of

twenty books. Sorkin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the recipient of the 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Mind Award, and is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. He is also Principal of Michael Sorkin Studio, an international design practice that works in close collaboration with Terreform.

Vyjayanthi V. Rao, Ph.D., Director of Terreform, is an anthropologist by training. Prior to joining Terreform, she held research and teaching positions at The New School for Social Research and at The University of Chicago where she also received her doctorate. From 2002 to 2004 she served as the Research Director of the Initiative on Cities and

Globalization at Yale University and as the Co-Director of Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR), an innovative urban laboratory in Mumbai, India. Her current work focuses on cities after globalization, specifically on the intersections of urban planning, design, art, violence, and speculation. She is the author of numerous articles on these topics in noted journals, the co-editor of Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork (Duke University Press, 2015) and is completing a manuscript on the spatial transformation of Mumbai. Read more at www.vyjayanthirao.info.

Maria Cecilia Fagel, Executive Editor, is an architecture/urban researcher, critic and writer. She has a BArch from the University of San Carlos—Technological Center, Cebu, a BBA in Design Management from Parsons, The New School for Design, and an MFA in Design Criticism from the School of Visual Arts. Prior to joining Terreform, she was a market research

analyst for a New York City-based Advisor to Dentsu Japan, where she was responsible for developing media marketing strategy, trend analysis and creative management and production. Her work has been published in Architect’s Newspaper, Verlag form GmbH & Co. KG and by the Cooper-Hewitt’s DesignFile.

Fern Lan Siew, Research Director, is originally from Malaysia. She is a graduate of the Masters of Landscape Architecture program at CCNY, an MAT in Secondary Biology from Cornell University, and a BS in Physiology. Her background includes applied and basic research work in animal science, and plant breeding and genomics. She was a curriculum

developer at the Nanobiotechnology Center and Cornell University, designing science kits and laboratory modules for a series of programs funded by the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health prior to returning to graduate school for her M.L.A. While studying landscape architecture, she worked at Freshkills Park Alliance NYC. She also collaborated on a book project about greenways with, WE Design, based in Brooklyn, New York.

Isaac Gertman, Design Director, is a graphic designer, educator, and urbanist. In addition to his role at Terreform, he leads design direction at The Independent Group, and is a member of the full-faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2014, he was named a Public Access Design Fellow by the Center for Urban Pedagogy. His work has been recognized

nationally and internationally, and has been featured in numerous books and blogs. Isaac received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Elisabeth Weiman, Communications Director, has a master’s degree in Anthropology from The New School (TNS), and a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies from Towson University. She held research and editorial positions with senior scholars and faculty at TNS and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before joining Terreform, she worked

as a Data Specialist with the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, and as the Community Liaison for the Women’s Economic Agenda Project in California. Her research, “Where Trust Instust Intersects: A Meet Between Residents and Indicator Data in Baltimore City”, will be published by The New School.

Trudy Giordano, Studio Manager, was born in Thailand and raised in the Netherlands. She has a fashion and design degree from Noorderpoort College. Prior joining Terreform, she worked in a photography studio in New York City. Trudy is concurrently studio manager for Michael Sorkin Studio.

Damiano Cerrone, Principal Researcher, is a spatial planner and analyst with a BA in Urban Planning and Geographic Information Systems from La Sapienza University, Rome. He also holds a MSc in Urban Studies from the Estonian Academy of Arts and is currently in its doctorate track in architecture and planning. In 2015, Damiano received ESRI’s Young

Scholar of the Year award. At Terreform, Damiano is working on forthcoming UR book, Open Gaza.

Vineet Diwadkar, Principal Researcher, is a designer and urban planner. He received a MA in Urban Planning and in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a BArch from Georgia Tech. At Harvard, he was a research associate with the Urban South Asia Project and Urban Theory Lab, and a community-based

planner and faculty member at the National Institute of Design. Vineet Is co-author of the forthcoming UR book, 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai.

Andrea Johnson, Principal Researcher, is a graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program Landscape Architecture program at CCNY. She has a BA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, minor in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. She was recently named 2015 National Olmsted Scholar Finalist. Prior to her landscape studies,

Andrea was a migration counselor in New York City. At Terreform, she is working on UR books, Gowntown: A 197-x Plan for Upper Manhattan and Why Yachay? Cities, Knowledge, and Development.

Aysegül Didem Özdemir, Ph.D., Principal Researcher, is an urban planner with a BA in City Planning and MA in Urban Conservation, both from Mimar Sinan University. She also holds a doctoral degree in urban design from Istanbul Technical University and an MA in Urban Design from CCNY. Prior to Terreform and for close to a decade, Didem worked as

project coordinator at the Municipal of Istanbul—Urban Design Group. Didem is currently Terreform’s head researcher for the New York City (Steady) State project, Waste Not.

Christina Serifi, Principal Researcher, is an urban designer and Fulbright scholar. She has an MA in Urban Design from CCNY and a professional degree as an architect engineer from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She is working on forthcoming UR book, Why Yachay? Cities, Knowledge, and Development.

Deen Sharp, Principal Researcher, is a doctoral candidate in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program, specializing in Geography, at the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, he was a freelance journalist and consultant based in Lebanon. His research focuses on the geography of the Arab world and his current project concerns the corporation and

urban space in post-war Beirut. He has written for a number of publications, including, Jadaliyya, Portal 9, the Arab Studies Journal, and The Guardian. He is co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (UR Books, 2016).

Terreform works also closely with Michael Sorkin Studio whose members

donate their time and skills to its projects.

Makoto Okazaki is Partner and Principal Architect at Michael Sorkin Studio. Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, he has twenty-five years of experience in architecture, urban design, and construction management, with an architectural license approved by the Japanese Ministry of Construction (1995). He also holds a Masters in Urban Planning degree

from The City College of New York. Makoto is devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales, with a special interest in the city and green architecture.

Ying Liu is an architectural designer at Michael Sorkin Studio and a LEED Green Associate. Originally from Liaoning, China, she holds a BArch degree from Tianjian University and an MArch from University of Southern California. Her graduate research work was included in the article, “Termite Urbanism,” published by AD (Architecture Design).

Jie Gu is an urban designer at Michael Sorkin Studio. He has over ten years of working experience in architecture and urban design. Previously, he was middle senior architect at AECOM and the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. Jie holds a Master of Urban Design degree from The City College of of New York and a Masters degree in Urban Environmental Design from

Beijing University.

Design and Research InternsSofie BlomMonika DattaJonas GonzalezTolga MizrakciDalia MunenzonJonathan NgoYou Wu

Editorial AssociatesLaura BelikNic CavellMichelle Alice KennedyPatricia LassanceAsia MernissiAndrew MoonLaura Sanchez

For a full list of our researchers and designers, please see: www.terreform.info/people

As a small, non-profit, organization, we depend on and thank our generous

donors of the past and present, and look forward to a league of future

supporters, a network of like-minded people and organizations.

Support

For further information on Terreform’s expertise and research programs, please contact Vyjayanthi Rao at: vyjayanthi.rao@terreform.info

Terreform Board of Directors Michael Sorkin

Joan Copjec, Ph.D.

Jonathan House, MD

M. Christine Boyer, Ph.D.

Richard Finkelstein, ESQ

Makoto Okazaki

UR Advisory Board Tom AngottiHunter College of CUNY

Kazi AshrafUniversity of Hawaii

M. Christine BoyerPrinceton University

Teddy CruzEstudio Teddy Cruz

Mike DavisUC Riverside

Ana Maria Duran CalistoEstudio AO

Anthony FontenotWoodbury School of Architecture

Susanna HechtUCLA

John HillNew York Institute of Technology

Walter HoodUC Berkeley

Cindi KatzGraduate Center CUNY

Romi KhoslaRomi Khosla Design Studio

Thom MayneMorphosis Architects

Suha OzkanWorld Architecture Community

Quilian RianoDSGN AGNC

Colin RobinsonOR Books

Jonathan SolomonSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago

Tau TavengwaAfrican Center for Cities

Srdjan WeissNormal Architecture Office

Eyal WeizmanGoldsmiths College

Mabel WilsonColumbia GSAPP

Kongjian YuPeking University

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