Albert Mayer’s Urban Village: Between The New School and India

A global conversation about using design to foster community

The New School does not look like most other universities, even those in large cities. It has no college green around which buildings are situated; no common architectural style; no grand monument-like buildings with Latin phrases carved into granite. Instead, it is a disaggregated collection of buildings, most in the ...
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Centering Human Relations in Learning

Human Relations Center at the New School: a place for women to come learn and to socialize

In Spring 1973, the author and women’s rights leader Betty Friedan taught a course on “Women in New York” at The New School. The eight sessions focused on the problems females faced in the city, in work and beyond, and it drew a large crowd. Enrollment consisted of 97 women ...
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Centering Human Relations in Learning