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2022 Alumni Books Roundup

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Literary City

Off the Page, and beyond the Screen, Pratt Writers Find Community in NYC’s Reading Scene

Community members of all ages dance with hands raised on one of Weeksville Heritage Center's lawns

Activating an Archive of Black Life in Brooklyn

Pratt Faculty and Students Collaborate with the Weeksville Community on an Oral History Project to Shape the Future

By Diana McClure

Nurturing NYC

Public works by Pratt alumni care for and celebrate New Yorkers

The undulating form of Little Island viewed from the Esplanade

A Gift to New York When New York Could Use It

Pratt Institute Professor Signe Nielsen, Landscape Architect of Little Island, Joins Fellow Experts in Conversation About Hudson River Park’s Inspired New Addition

Local Network

Pratt Alumni Shape a Connected, Creative Brooklyn, and Beyond

By Andy P. Smith, BFA Writing ’04

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The People Make the Place

Samantha Hunt walks across a green yard toward a writing studio with a breezeway in the center, where her dog is jogging through

Practice

Revisited: From the Studio of Writing Professor Samantha Hunt

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Perspective

With Ahmad Shaibani, MS City and Regional Planning ’17

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Inside Our City of Industry

New and Noteworthy

Faculty Books and Releases of 2021

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Crit

Designing for Nourishment of People and Communities

In an arched stone passageway, people sit on wood benches and look through books from shelves built into the walls, as a walker strolls past on a gray-tiled section of the tunnel

Features

New York Reimagined