Adam Sanders ’25, Religion

Adam Sanders ’25

Major

Religion

Project Title

Living Legend: Reimagining the Cross Bronx

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Minor(s): Humanistic Studies, Journalism

I helped conduct research for the “Living Legend/Cross Bronx” project, an upcoming collaboration between Urban Omnibus and the New York City Department of City Planning. The construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway displaced thousands, cut a gash in the urban fabric of the Bronx and exposed its neighbors to harmful air pollution. Urban Omnibus and NYC DCP are working together to create a series of public space activations in collaboration with local community artists and partners to display the breadth and depth of possibilities for reimagining the Cross Bronx Expressway and the neighborhoods along its corridor. As a project assistant early in the planning process, I worked to understand the choices other cities have made to rehabilitate, remove and/or reimagine their own urban highway systems. This experience allowed me to understand more deeply the bevy of possible solutions to one of the most pressing issues in contemporary urbanism: how do we repair communities torn apart by the freeways of the mid-20th century? Working at Urban Omnibus exposed me to the imaginative, reparative and practical possibilities of urban design, as I was able to explore so many solutions to these issues of disconnection and consider more deeply the possibility for repair.