The Manhattanville Project is an excellent article by Daphne Eviatar on the challenges faced by Columbia University in developing their new campus extension, designed by Renzo Piano, in Upper Manhattan.

Photo by Brenda Ann Kenneally

Quoted: In contrast to the gated, stone Beaux-Arts-Renaissance campus built more than a century ago in Morningside Heights, the new West Harlem campus would tell a more contemporary story: filling almost 18 acres parallel to the waterfront, it would open Columbia to the surrounding community. Some buildings could reach 25 stories, and the streets would remain publicly accessible…Yet the university has met remarkable resistance. One man’s urban improvement, it seems, is another man’s urban debacle.

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