This studio focused on the Tenderloin neighborhood of Manhattan during the period of 1870-1920, when it was home to a significant Black population. Students interrogated Black histories and claims to space in an effort to elevate these stories through reparative preservation efforts. The studio researched how patterns of White-led exclusion emerged historically, repeated over time, and are embedded in the built environment, affecting what survives in the urban landscape today and how these stories are encountered. Students used the lens of restorative justice to develop proposals that reclaim narratives of Black history and that underscore the significance of the Tenderloin as a context of Black agency.
