Issues of design activism and the role of media in spatial experience are explored in critical essays by Jennifer Gabrys on Fresh Kills Landfill in New York, Michael Rakowitz on the Hungarian - based team Big Hope, and in Claudine Isé's Vanishing Point, an exhibition questioning the aesthetics of urban non-spaces. (artbook.com)
Lawmakers have previously called on the city to study potential health impacts of Fresh Kills dump on residents after statistics showed the borough had higher rates of cancer and several birth defects than the rest of the city. (dnainfo.com)
On Friday Joe Lhota and Assembly Member Joe Borelli held a press conference calling on the City to allow Staten Island drivers to use roads inside the now - closed Fresh Kills landfill. (newyorktrue.com)