Layla Law-Gisiko

Layla Law-Gisiko's professional experience includes working as a journalist. She earned a graduate degree from Sorbonne University in 1991 and a graduate degree from Assas University in 1993.

Eve Zanni: A Different Kind of Capital, by Layla Law-Gisiko

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On Friday afternoons, the community room at Westbeth artist building performs a small act of defiance. The room itself is not terribly remarkable: a low ceiling, a row of stackable chairs, the linoleum has the matte tiredness of civic space. Nothing about the room announces transcendence, except maybe the grand piano. By a quarter past […]

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The High Cost of the Wrecking Ball

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Demolition must have hired a good PR firm. It gets mentioned as if it were renewal. In the language of planning documents and press releases, buildings are “cleared,” sites are “activated,” neighborhoods are “reimagined”, and in the case of public housing, it was referred to as “decanted”, a vocable usually reserved for wine! The verbs

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