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A GLOBAL REPORT FROM THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND PRESERVATION

The Report

Welcome to CC: A Global Report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. If the existing school website can be described as GSAPP’s daily newspaper, CC: is seen as its Sunday magazine. The goal of the project is to keep readers informed about the school and its broad global network of activities. It’s been a while. Although CC: is not intended to replicate the efforts of Newsline (1989-2001) or the short-lived Alumni Scholarship Newsletter, we figured it was time to let people in on the experiments being conducted at the school (and, increasingly, outside of Avery Hall) in addition to the exciting work of its alumni, who continue to challenge the paradigms of their disciplines. The difficulty of capturing a somewhat enigmatic school is reflected in the deliberately simple organization of the content. Our hope is that this structure – organized into notes, briefs, and papers – will accept almost anything while reigning it in without trying to force the often inchoate activities of the school into set themes or periods. Why the name? We liked the fact that CC: suggests an action and, also, an act of inclusion. Please join the conversation and let us know what you think!

Editors

Jeannie Kim

Jeannie Kim is currently the Editor in Chief of CC: A Global Report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. In addition to teaching studios and seminars at GSAPP, she was also previously the Director of Print Publications. Between 2008-2010 she managed the National Design Awards at Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and co-curated Design USA, retrospective of the first deacde of the design awards. Currently, she is trying very hard to find the appropriate level of concentration to finish editing her dissertation at Princeton University School of Architecture from Toronto, Canada. She can be reached at editor[at]arch.columbia.edu.

Contributors

This list of contributors will soon be long and comprehensive and, hopefully, one day extend every member of the school community, including you. Contributions are welcome at any scale. Please contact us at editor[at]arch.columbia.edu. 

Readership

Our readers include our alumni, faculty, students, staff, designers, educators, supporters, friends, and others in fields related to the work of the school. Once everything is up and running and, also, depending upon how you like to receive your content, you can access the content of CC: through the website, as a weekly crowd-sourced e-newsletter (coming soon!), via Facebook or Twitter, as an RSS feed, or as downloadable bi-annual PDFs.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by CC: A Global Report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. We appreciate your readership and the value of your personal privacy. We respect the personal nature of the information you may provide to us on CC: and acknowledge the importance of protecting this information.

Non-personally identifiable information such as site usage information is occasionally collected indirectly and automatically about your activities while visiting CC:, including what pages you view and when you view them. Site usage information is used to help us understand how our site is being used and for systems administration purposes only.

We collect personal information when you provide it to us by sending an email to us or signing up to receive a newsletter or posting comments. The personal information we collect from you is stored on our data host’s secure servers. Only authorized personnel have access to your information, but despite our best efforts, no transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that you provide us with your personal information at your own risk.

CC: contains many links to other sites on the Internet. CC: is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of such external websites.

Terms of Use

This user agreement sets forth the conditions for your use of the CC: website. Please read this User Agreement carefully, because by using CC:, you consent to these terms and conditions, including our collection and use of information about you in accordance with the Privacy Policy. We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue the CC: website with or without notice.

Copyright

CC: will follow the general policy toward copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf). As a policy, CC: will block access to or remove content that we believe in good faith to be copyrighted material that has been illegally copied and distributed by any of our users; and we will discontinue service to repeat offenders. If you believe that content residing on or accessible through CC: infringes a copyright, please send a notice of copyright infringement by regular mail Publications Office, Attn: Editor in Chief, CC:, Columbia University GSAPP, 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 USA, containing the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) the URL of the location containing the material that you claim is infringing; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Once proper infringement notification is received by the designated agent, it is CC: policy to remove or disable access to the infringing content and to notify the content provider or User that it has removed or disabled access to the content. Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability. Further examples of copyright infringement, counter-notification, and detailed descriptions and case studies regarding copyright and fair-use can be found at www.chillingeffects.org.

Comments

We invite your questions, or comments about CC: or any of the issues addressed on the CC: website. You may send letters to CC: at Publications Office, Attn: Editor in Chief, CC:, Columbia University GSAPP, 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 USA or at editor [at] arch.columbia.edu. By sending a letter to the Editor, you grant CC: A Global Report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce and distribute the letter, in whole or in part, for any purpose, in any media, whether now known or later created.

CC: takes no responsibility for the comments posted on the CC: website. We encourage comments to be short and to the point, and to be courteous to others. CC: reserves the right to edit or delete comments that do not adhere to these standards.