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596 Acres presents Reviewing Renewal on the Queens Museum Panorama

Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

596 Acres will present all of the urban renewal plans that the City has ever adopted in an intervention directly on the Panorama of the City of New York, realizing the online Urban Reviewer (urbanreviewer.org) map on a 1:1200 scale of the 9,335 square foot Panorama.

What can we learn from the continuing story of urban renewal in NYC? Check out the exhibit!

Free

Washed Up Transforming a Trashed Landscape Alejandro Duran

Hunter College East Harlem Art Gallery 2180 Third Avenue , New York

Washed Up is an ongo­ing project by Mexican-born, New York-based artist Ale­jan­dro Durán that addresses the issue of plas­tic pol­lu­tion mak­ing its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve.

Come see how this Ale­jan­dro Durán addresses these issues through art!

Free

Book Launch: Sustainability Policy – Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy

Columbia University, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center, Room 1501 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, New York

The Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University present a book launch, Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy. Authors Steven Cohen, William Eimicke, and Alison Miller will be discussing their new book, published by Jossey-Bass in January 2015.

Free