Liviu Chelcea

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Richard McGahey |Liviu Chelcea |Michael Inman |Mary Karmelek

Residential buildings in New York City | M_Makarov / ShutterstockIn January 2025, Urban Matters, Center of New York City Affair’s weekly journal of ideas and opinion, wrapped up a wide-ranging two-part interview with noted urban policy expert Richard McGahey on the likely impact of New York City’s newly adopted “City of Yes”’” zoning package intended to jumpstart housing production.

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Mary Karmelek |Michael Inman |Liviu Chelcea |Achilles Kallergis

“An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders” by Owen Smith at NYCT 36th Street Station | Photo: David Lubarsky / Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityWeekday mornings, as I walk to the 36th Street subway stop in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, I quicken my pace, anxious that if I miss the train, I’ll be late for work; worried that if it’s too crowded, I won’t get a seat on the 40-minute commute that lies ahead.

Mar 25, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Justin Joque |Liviu Chelcea |Claire Potter |Joscelyn Jurich

Sueño No. 1: “Articulos eléctricos para el hogar” (1950) | Grete Stern / Public domainHis daughter’s senior thesis seems to have cut Bill Ackman to the quick. She’d gone to Harvard, just like him. But his thesis, submitted in 1988, critiqued the university’s admission quotas and their impact not just on access to education (in his study, for Jewish students in the 1920s and Asian American students in the 1980s) but on who achieves “elite status” in American society.

Mar 5, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Oana Filip |Liviu Chelcea |Reynard Loki |Pamela Ballinger

Image Credit: “Water Pollution” by HooverStreetStudios is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.Water use has always been an indicator of social relations. In western societies, most treat drinking water as a simultaneously infinite and hyper-individualized resource. But plastic pollution and the climate emergency are forcing us to question our consumption habits. Oana Filip: How did your academic interest in water develop?

Jan 22, 2024 | eurozine.com | Liviu Chelcea |Oana Filip

Oana Filip: How did your academic interest in water develop? Liviu Chelcea: I started becoming interested in water supply systems when I was doing research into housing nationalisation and restitution for my doctorate. This led me to apply for a Fulbright scholarship in the field of urban infrastructure, based at the New School for Social Research in New York.