The Programmable City (2001)

In the setting of a “programmable city,” CUP staged a series of interdisciplinary projects that forged direct dialogues between markedly distinct interest groups (artists, community-based organizations, government officials, developers, and architects) about the regulation and construction of the built environment. It includes people both on the
inside and the outside of usual architectural research.
Projects include examinations of architecture a decade after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a video documenting the intersection of Old Testament commandments with contemporary Hasidic communities in Brooklyn, a timeline illustrated with models and drawings of eight major pieces of 20th century design legislation, a poster explaining New Yorkers′ basic housing rights, and a series of self-guided walking tours highlighting issues of coding in the built environment.