On Nov. 15th and 16th, 2024, the J Max Bond Center for Urban Futures hosted ARCH @ 60: Bridging Past Visions and Present Realities, a symposium that brought together practitioners, advocates, and academics to reflect of the legacy of the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH)

Currently, most air rights transfers are used to create a distinctly financial style of building, the super-tall. This project proposes a smaller scale approach, unlocking air rights above existing residential development, adding 2-4 stories to create a higher, yet still contextually relevant, density.

Max Bond Jr.’s own years of professional practice dedicated to the building of the then young Ghanian country in the 1960s served as a fruitful and inspiring model for this collaboration. The three organizations responsible for this work established an agreement to work collaboratively on the research and creation of a comprehensive and sustainable development strategy for Accra.

The Bond Center was asked to lead a collaborative effort along with community partners to imagine the future home of the Harry Belafonte Center for Social Justice and the Equitable City in what was formerly the Lincoln Correctional Facility located in Harlem, New York.

Sample Retailer Responses to Covid and Related Consumer Spending Trends within the Harlem Zip Codes

The lasting effects of gentrification, rezoning, historic red-lining and economic and health disparities have rendered a built landscape — and its attending processes — fraught to navigate.