Making New York More Energy Efficient

Terreform's New York City (Steady) State project receives press coverage by Fox 5 New York.

Book Launch: New Orleans Under Reconstruction

When the levees broke in August 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, with a loss of 134,000 homes and 986 lives. The devastation hit the vulnerable communities the hardest: the old, the poor and the African American. The disaster exposed the hideous inequality of the city. In response to the disaster numerous plans, designs and projects were proposed.

Terreform's proposal, A New Algiers, was included in New Orleans Under Reconstruction by Carol M. Reese, Michael Sorkin and Anthony Fontenot. The book is a compendium of various responses from politicians, writers, architects, planners and activists — including Mike Davis, Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein, Denise Scott Brown, and M. Christine Boyer.

Researchers Envision A Fully Sustainable New York City

The New York City (Steady) State project by Terreform is featured in an article in CBSNEWS titled Researchers Envision a Fully Sustainable New York City. "Our study means to have implications for all cities that are seeking to take greater responsibility for their impact on the planet," writes Michael Sorkin. "We [also] believe that cities are logical increments of political organization, particularly in an era of indifferent multinationals and incompetent nation states."

The study is a work in progress. "We're looking at a wide range of urban respiratory functions, including food, water, air, climate, movement, construction, energy, waste and manufacturing -- and have several years to run in the study," quotes Sorkin. "While much of our work is both formally and politically visionary, it isn't rocket science and we think that there are [many] useful proposal embedded in it."