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IPK Director Eric Klinenberg Named One of Seven Inaugural Knight Public Spaces Fellows

IMAGE: 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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IPK Director Eric Klinenberg in The Economist: Populism can be beaten back by libraries. Really

On May 31, 2019, The Economist shares an interview with IPK Director Eric Klinenberg about his new book Palaces for the People, as well as an excerpt. Read an excerpt below and the full piece on The Economist website. MANY IDEAS have been put forward to explain the rise of populism in the West: economic insecurity,…

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IPK Director Eric Klinenberg in The New York Times: Growing Up With Murder All Around

On March 4, 2019, in The New York Times, IPK Director Eric Klinenberg writes a review of Alex Kotlowitz’s latest book, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago. Read an excerpt below and the full piece on The New York Times website. On July 22, 2012, Darren Easterling was murdered in Park Forest, a mostly African-American suburb…

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Co-Opting AI: Public Conversations About Design, Inequality, and Technology

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge is pleased to list all events that have been hosted by Mona Sloane as part of the “Co-Opting AI: Public Conversations About Design, Inequality, and Technology” series since its launch in April 2019. March 27, 2019, 12PM | Racial Categories in Machine Learning (with Race and Public Space) In person…

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IPK Director Eric Klinenberg in The New York Times: To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library

On September 8, 2018, in The New York Times, IPK Director Eric Klinenberg pens an op-ed about the function of public libraries in society. Read an excerpt below and the full piece on The New York Times website. Is the public library obsolete? A lot of powerful forces in society seem to think so. In recent…

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IPK Director Eric Klinenberg in The New Yorker: The Other Side of “Broken Windows”

On August 23, 2018, in The New Yorker, IPK Director Eric Klinenberg shares an excerpt from his forthcoming book Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, which will be published this September by Crown. The piece considers the possibilities of “broken windows” theory, asking: what it vacant property received…

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Puerto Rico’s rolling disaster shows the need for new thinking about climate change and health

Image Credit: Specialist 2nd Class Stephane Belcher/U.S. Navy By Rosalind Donald Last month, in an attempt to deal with a critical shortage of bags of intravenous solution, the drug company Baxter extended the shelf life of several products. It’s the latest ripple in the health crisis Hurricane Maria set off in Puerto Rico. “Health care…

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Beautiful Games? With Rog Bennett and John Green

On June 7, 2018, the IPK hosted “Beautiful Games? Putting the World Back in the World Cup,” a symposium with an all-star team of leading soccer scholars, scribes and talking heads discussing the global phenomenon that is the World Cup. This is the concluding session, a conversation with John Green and Rog Bennett (of Men…

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Island People: A Storm Relief Benefit and Celebration

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, in collaboration with CARIBBEING, the Ace Hotel New York, and WORD Bookstores, invite you to join for the paperback release event for Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s book, Island People: The Caribbean and the World. This masterwork of travel literature and history is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Caribbean that illuminates its fierce grip on the world’s imagination. It shows…

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IPK Director Eric Klinenberg Pens NY Times Op-Ed: “Puerto Rico’s Actual Death Toll”

In the November 13, 2017 issue of the New York Times, IPK Director Eric Klinenberg writes an opinion piece on Hurricane Maria’s effect on Puerto Rico and the Trump Administration’s response. Read an excerpt below and the full piece here. “Early last month, President Trump visited Puerto Rico on a trip designed to signal the federal government’s…

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