Scaling Up The Cooperative Economy | Community-Wealth.org

Great piece!  We need more faculty and students to study these models and universities to participate in them.  Hello CUNY!? 

A Sheik’s Vision Could Trump Plan for a Queens Park - NYTimes.com

great piece on the breaks developers' get and the way in which these types of project rob residents of everdya amenities. 

"As it stands, Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan would pay $1 per year on his city lease, and no sales or property taxes. By contrast, the owner of a Flushing Meadows taco van could pay as much as $30,000, and pay sales taxes."



A Sheik’s Vision Could Trump Plan for a Queens Park - NYTimes.com

For Scott Stringer, winning's the easy part | Crain's New York Business

Reminaging this job, just in terms of what the city's pensions are inevsted in, could be huge for making economy of nyc more democratic, resilient and inclusive; why not fund sustainable infrastructure, worker coop's, land trusts, and community development that stabilizes rents?

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Lower Manhattan rebuilds again, until the next time | Capital New York

This is one of the very few detailed pieces i've seen that talks about the "manged retreat" option for NYC; i.e. that major building in Zone A, ESPECIALLY in lower manhattan, does not really make sense for anyone.