Emergent City

Our Role:
Strategy/Consultation/Sales

Over a decade, within the borders of a single Brooklyn community district, a microcosm of American democracy emerges. Residents of Sunset Park face a tangled web of rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases Industry City – a massive industrial complex on the waterfront – and begins to transform it into an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself.

“An absorbing study…you can see the architecture of how modern cities are designed and who they are made for.” — The Moveable Feast