On April 26, 2021, IPK Director Eric Klinenberg penned a NY Times Op-ed titled, “Infrastructure Isn’t Really About Roads. It’s About the Society We Want.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Until recently, the question of what counts as infrastructure was an academic matter. Today, thanks to President Biden’s $2 trillion proposal to upgrade…
Read MoreOn March 4, 2021, Eric Klinenberg will be appearing in the Open House New York Series, Radical Knowledge: Libraries as Community Catalysts. The series kick-off will feature a thought-provoking conversation about the ways in which libraries provide social infrastructure for their communities with Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, and sociologist Eric Klinenberg, Director of the…
Read MoreThe Institute for Public Knowledge, in partnership with NYU’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Inequality, invites you to join a series of six conversations about the COVID-19 pandemic. Our series explores a variety of social problems that the pandemic accelerated and made more visible, from health disparities to social distancing, urban segregation to the decline of public goods….
Read MoreOn September 3, 2020, IPK Director Eric Klinenberg penned a NY Times Op-ed titled, “How Libraries Can Save the 2020 Election.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. As states rush to adapt their election systems amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials estimate that 80 million Americans plan to vote by mail this fall, twice…
Read MoreNYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge is pleased to announce a new event series, The Shift: Episode 1: “Introducing The Shift: Public Space” – You can watch the episode here. Episode 2: “Education”- You can watch the episode here. Episode 3: “Art & Activism”- You can watch the episode here. Episode 4: “Food” Episode 5: “Work”…
Read MoreOn April 1, 2020, Eric Klinenberg appeared on the Ezra Klein Show discussing social solidarity in a pandemic. There is no doubt that social distancing is the best way to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But the efficacy of social distancing (or really any other public health measure) relies on something much deeper and…
Read MoreOn March 14, 2020, IPK Director Eric Klinenberg penned a NY Times Op-Ed titled “We Need Social Solidarity, Not Just Social Distancing”. Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Social distancing — canceling large gatherings, closing schools and offices, quarantining individuals and even sequestering entire cities or neighborhoods — seems to be…
Read MoreOn Friday, August 30, 2019, IPK Senior Fellow Caitlin Zaloom pens an op-ed in the New York Times entitled “How Paying for College Is Changing Middle-Class Life.” Read an excerpt below and the full article here. Everyone knows that higher education is expensive. The average annual price tag for attending an American college is now…
Read MoreIMAGE: Daniel Rehn via Flickr On June 17, 2019, the first pieces in the Public Books series ‘Co-Opting AI’, a new collaboration between IPK Fellow Mona Sloane and Public Books, will be published. Read the introduction here. Today, almost 70 years after Alan Turing famously asked, “Can machines think?,” what we call “artificial intelligence,” or AI,…
Read MoreIMAGE: The Knight Public Spaces Fellows. From left to right: Sam Gill, Knight Foundation; Robert Hammond, Friends of the High Line; Eric Klinenberg, New York University; Chelina Odbert, Kounkuey Design Initiative; Erin Salazar, Exhibition District; Anuj Gupta, Reading Terminal Market; Kathryn Ott Lovell, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation; Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation; Lilly Weinberg, Knight Foundation. (Not pictured: Walter Hood, Hood Design.) Credit: Albert Yee. On June 19, 2019, IPK Director…
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