Defending the right to build.
It’s a violation of basic rights in housing.
Born and raised in New York, Gilbert Fornatora’s family often vacationed in Florida, offering them a warm escape from the brutal East Coast winters. It was during these cherished trips of his boyhood years that he became taken with the Miami-Dade County region. But his interest in the area wasn’t due only to its scenic landscapes and warm sunshine. In the 1950s and 1960s, when Gilbert had become an adult, the investment potential in the western part of the county was expected to boom.
Can society be designed? Can an expert engineer alleviate people’s pains and struggles with a good-enough central plan and blueprint?
Legend. Icon. Renegade. Pioneer. The sobriquets Willie Benedetti collected during his lifetime are as numerous as they are grand.
In 1902, William Warley was getting ready to graduate from Central High School in Louisville, Kentucky. Warley, as one of the top students at Central and a leader of his class, was a bright, charismatic young Black man looking to make his mark on a country that didn’t yet value your intellect—or your rights—if you were the wrong color.
Peyman Pakdel and his wife, Sima are the kind of neighbors most people want. Peyman is an engineer who worked his way up to become part-owner of a small manufacturing company, Sima is a dentist with a family practice.