Examining the impact of 50 years of redevelopment efforts in the Church Street South district, Jonathan Hopkins takes a critical look at the legacy of top-down planning in New Haven. Designed as an affordable housing development in 1968 by then-Dean of the Yale School of Architecture Charles Moore, Church Street South is in the midst of a rapid transformation today under a new redevelopment project. The exhibit explores the methods of city planning, the madness of redevelopment, and the meaning to be found in all of it.
Two Sides of the Border focuses on student work from the 13 studios along with photographic documentation of the studios’ sites by Iwan Baan, all divided into five topic areas: territorial economies, migration, housing and cities, tourism, and creative industries and production.
