On 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…
Read MoreOn 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,…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read MoreNYU’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…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read MoreOn 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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