STUYVESANT TOWN-NEW YORK CITY

Circulation: (i)Long Blocks vs

(ii)Stuyvesant Town Short Blocks

LESSONS LEARNT
1. Tie the development to the existing neighbourhood
2. Make development diverse and culturally integrated
3. Include multiple Gardens and play areas
Stuyvesant Town Desnity 4. Create variety in typology
5. Make circulation and way finding simple
3 Bedroom Plan
Stuyvesant Town was created under a public-private
partnership between the City of New York and the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife)
Ariel View of Stuyvesant Town
Stuyvesant Town’s 8,755 apartments are distributed through
Stuyvesant Town, a New York City housing development was built from 35 13-story buildings that are surrounded by tree-lined
1945-1947 for white middle-class residents, mostly veterans and their paths, gardens, and outdoor amenities.
families. At its creation, Stuyvesant Town was the largest redevelopment
housing project ever built in the United States and it remains the largest Stuyvesant Town’s design and amenities separate it from
housing development in New York City New York City and make the development spatially
disorienting, this detachment harms the city in which it
resides, rather than Stuyvesant Town’s residents. It also lacks
racial diversity However Its recidents enjoy living there
Tennis Court

1 Bedroom Plan

Stuyvesant Town was created under a public-

private partnership between the City of New
York and the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company (MetLife)

Stuyvesant Town’s 8,755 apartments are

distributed through 35 13-story buildings that are
surrounded by tree-lined paths, gardens, and
outdoor amenities.

2 Bedroom Interior Parking lot

Master Plan of Stuyvesant Town

Displacement of over 3,000 families, 500 stores and small Stuyvesant Town New Development in 1947 Open Air Gym Landscaping Side walks
factories, three churches, three schools, and two theaters

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OYWECHA NICHOLAS MAUTERI B02/44078/2017 MIXED INCOME GOVERNMENT/PUBLIC HOUSING CASE STUDY- STUYVESANT TOWN