The City We Imagined/The City We Made: New New York 2001-2010 was the sixth in an ongoing series of Architectural League exhibitions
about contemporary architecture in New York City. This installment took as its subject the planning, design, and building of New York in
the first decade of the twenty-first century. Beginning in 2001, an
array of powerful forces converged to dramatically transform large
portions of the city. The events of September 11, the policies and
priorities of the Bloomberg Administration, the volatile ups and downs
of the global and local economies, advances in material and construction
technologies, and a new interest among the public in leading edge
architecture all combined to reshape New York in ways that we may not
fully grasp for decades to come.The City We Imagined/The City We Made
documented this recent chapter in the city?s history, providing an
overview of the most notable projects and proposals, plans and
initiatives, so that New Yorkers can begin to shape an overall
understanding of the decade and consider what the cumulative impact of
this era of planning and building might be for the future of the city.