“In New York City, you have slums, but they’re not visible,” Basar Girit, a partner at SITU Studio, tells Co.Design. “I think we wanted to bring that to people’s attention,” he says.

Later he became the city editor of the New York Tribune. When flash photography was born in 1887, he and three photographer friends began to photograph the slums of New York City and three years ...

Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of New York's slums in his book ... His work led to changes in the city and prompted then-Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt ...

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That is, when people follow their hearts and instincts to re-energize dead zones that we used to call slums. And do so ... s happened since testifies to New York City’s unparalleled regenerative ...

New York’s Senator Robert F. Wagner introduced, among other features of his proposed Unemployment relief legislation, the idea of lending Federal funds for city slum clearance. Robert Ferdinand ...

1840s New York was a city in transition ... These new settlement patterns fundamentally changed the character of the city. Slums, like the notorious Five Points neighbourhood, became home to ...

In 1924, Smith, the popular, cigar-chomping product of New York City's immigrant slums, began appointing the Yale- and Oxford-educated Moses to commissions that enabled him to start accumulating ...