
Letter from the Editors
Katelin Penner & Will Greenberg, Co-Editors in Chief

A World Without Robert Moses
Adam J Bailey
Backyard Commoning: Lessons from New York’s 1920s Garden City Experiments and Contemporary Retrofit Cohousing
Jordan Engel

From Bustling, Human-Scaled Streets to Mountaintop Ghost Towns: Exploring the Evolution of Medieval Italian Villages
Taylor Richards


Surviving NYC’s Housing Programs
Katie Zhang
Editorial Board
Katelin Penner – Co-Editor-in-Chief – (she/they) is a vacant lot researcher and Master in Urban Planning student at Hunter College. Her work concerns the ways cities respond to austerity, community resilience, social housing, and the role capital has played in shaping our homes and neighborhoods, especially in the late 20th Century. You can reach them at [email protected] with any questions or quandries you may have!
Will Greenberg – Co-Editor-in-Chief – (he/him) is a Master of Urban Planning student at Hunter. He received his bachelor’s from the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and has written for The Washington Post, Mother Jones, In These Times, and Vice.
Jenn Hendricks – Associate Editor– (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and urban researcher. Her work focuses on comparative urban policy, with a specific interest in regional understandings of community development and public space. She studied Urban Policy at Hunter College. She is also the Production Manager for the Museum of Americana and the Grants Associate at Urban Justice Center-Safety Net Project.