Designing Cop City

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( Wednesday, June 21 urbanism Designing Cop City What the evolution of the tactical village, from Riotsville to Atlanta, reveals about policing. Illustration: Richard A Chance At first glance, the [renderings]( of the $90 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center look like Google’s Mountain View headquarters or an idyllic college campus. Walkways are lined with flowering trees, and a pair of deep-blue lakes frame a leafy quad. In another image, children spill out of a school bus parked near a stately lecture hall, greeted by a police officer in dress uniform. The main point of departure from your average office park are images of the complex’s planned replica of an Atlanta city block, its roads choked with armored vehicles and awkwardly parked police sedans. Here, police will run riot drills at a fake gas station and stage hostage interventions in apartments and motel rooms. (On another nearby lot, a high-rise tower is shown consumed in flames.) According to city leadership, these scenes of perpetual crisis are crucial to the work of police reform. As then-Mayor Keisha Bottoms [said]( in 2021, using language that has been echoed by the Atlanta Police Foundation and the project’s architectural firm, the sprawling training complex, planned to open in December of 2024, offers a “physical space to ensure that our officers and firefighters are receiving 21st-century training rooted in respect and regard for the communities they serve.” [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Listening In at the Brooklyn Museum The scene at the critically panned show “It’s Pablo-matic.”]( By Adriane Quinlan [The United Order of the Tents Might Be Spared Demolition A tax exemption means the country’s oldest benefit society for Black women can actually fix its crumbling Bed-Stuy headquarters.]( By Adriane Quinlan [Memoirs of a Perfectly Imperfect Fourth-Floor Walk-up Alex Tieghi-Walker, founder of the gallery Tiwa Select, had just gotten his Noho apartment the way he wanted it. Then his lease ended.]( By Wendy Goodman [Why Young Collectors Are Buying Fussy Antiques Talking with Michael Diaz-Griffith, author of The New Antiquarians, about the renewed interest in very old things.]( By Diana Budds [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved