Lecture Series
“From Tenements to Towers,” the subtitle of the exhibition HOUSING DENSITY at The Skyscraper Museum, described the arc for this series of lectures and panel programs that examined the history and strategies of development – both private market and publicly-assisted – for housing New York’s multitudes. The programs brought together leading historians of New York’s architecture, housing, and urban history to consider how debates about “density” had shaped and reshaped New York from the early 20th century reforms of tenement crowding to the problematic urbanism of the “towers in the park” models in the postwar era.