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Town+Gown also serves as a clearinghouse for built environment research conducted within the program.
- Building Ideas
- Symposia Précis
- June 10, 2021
Vision Zero Research on the Road, Part IV - April 28, 2021
Under the Ground: Planning, Management, and Utilization.2 Subsurface Transformations for a Smart, Sustainable and Resilient City | Video - April 22, 2021
Sounds of New York City.2: Construction Noise Mitigation and Technology | Video - March 25, 2021
New Frontier for Construction Materials — Decommissioned Wind Blades (URR.7) | Video - March 9, 2021
Clean Water: 2021 - February 26, 2021
Urban Resource Recovery: Pneumatic Flow Tube Technology Event (URR.6 formerly CDW) | Video - December 4, 2020
UrbanARK and Flood Risk | Video - February 24, 2020
Pushing the CDW Recycling and Re-use Envelope: Waste2Resources (CDW.5) - January 29, 2020
Under the Ground: Planning, Management, and Utilization - November 18, 2019
Resilient Public Spaces and Communities.2 - November 14, 2019
Culture+Data for Better Project Delivery - October 23, 2019
Pushing the Construction+Demolition Waste Recycling Envelope: ENVISION and Measuring Impacts of Re-Using Recycled CD+W on Infrastructure Projects (CDW.4) - August 16, 2019
Sounds of New York City: Construction Noise - August 1, 2019
Pushing the Recycling Envelope: Construction and Demolition Waste.3 - May 29 – 30, 2019
Construction+Finance in 2019- Day 1: Traditional Delivery and Finance Video
- Day 2: Innovative Delivery and Finance Video
- April 18, 2019
6th Symposium on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in New York REDUX - November 9, 2018
Issues in Systemic Construction Data Analysis: Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Middle-Out - October 31, 2018
Resilient Public Spaces and Communities: Data Driven Explorations - October 30, 2018
Pushing the Recycling Envelope: Construction and Demolition Waste.2 - January 31, 2018
Pushing Design Research into Implementation - November 30, 2017
Pushing the Recycling Envelope: Construction and Demolition Waste - June 15, 2016
Means and Methods: Sword or Shield? - October 28, 2015
The Policy of Design and Equity - May 13, 2015
Policy, Meet Design.2 - April 23, 2015
Roadway.3—A Work in Progress Continues - November 12, 2014
Modernization of New York's Built Environment Laws: If Not Now, When? - October 22, 2014
Issues in Civic Visioning - May 15, 2014
Engineers Design - May 13, 2014
Redesigning Neighborhood Change - November 12, 2014
BIMapalooza - October 10, 2013
Policy, Meet Design - June 18, 2013
Planning Sustainable Neighborhoods: Anatomy of a Project—From District One to Microgrids - May 21, 2013
Looking Ahead to NYCxDesign 2014 - April 18, 2013
Service Delivery Not Procurement - March 14, 2013
Design: When Does It Begin and End? - February 12, 2013
Roadway.2—A Work in Progress - January 23, 2013
BIM-fest - October 17, 2012
Design: Just What the Heck Is It? - April 25, 2012
What Can Public Built Environment Data Tell Us? - April 3, 2012
Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods - February 22, 2012
Life Cycle Costing Data for Roadways - Articles on Town+Gown
- Press Releases on Town+Gown
Town+Gown publishes an annual review called Building Ideas as part of disseminating the results of research conducted in the program. Building Ideas abstracts all research projects completed in an academic year as well as summarizes all Symposium events conducted. If you would like to receive a copy of the work abstracted in Building Ideas, please contact Terri Matthews, Director.
Building Ideas, Vol. 8 + 9
Building Ideas, Vol. 7
Building Ideas, Vol. 6
Building Ideas, Vol. 5
Building Ideas, Vol. 4
Building Ideas, Vol. 3
Building Ideas, Vol. 2
Building Ideas, Vol. 1
Town+Gown prepares précis documents for symposia and working papers for working group events that establish context, as well as summarize the completed Town+Gown project(s) that are the subject of the event. Below are précis documents and working papers from past events.
2021-2022
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2019
2017 - 2018
2016 - 2017
2015 - 2016
2014 - 2015
2013 - 2014
2012 - 2013
2011 - 2012
All articles will download in PDF format.
“Case Study: New York City's Town+Gown Program”
by Terri Matthews
“‘Town+Gown’ and CCNY's Sustainability in the Urban Environment Program”
by Terri Matthews and George Smith
“Policy, Meet Design”
by Andrew Shea
“A Place to Test Ideas”
Fordham Business, Fall 2017, pp. 6-7
“Grad Students Need Real-World Policy Training
by Nancy Holt and Terri Matthews”
Two Town+Gown:NYC Research Projects Investigate City’s Carbon Neutrality and Future Flooding Risk
June 29, 2021
New Research Website Promotes Urban Sustainability
April 25, 2018