During our in-class excursion, I walked an area west of downtown, towards Edgewood, in search of quintessential examples of the New Haven courtyard/garden apartment typology. This housing model arose in the 20th c. in an effort to provide missing middle housing for the potentially walkable residential areas near urban centers. Broadly, the theory behind middle housing (duplex, fourplex, live work, garden apartment, courtyard apartment, etc.) is that by adding density…

Natalie Fox and Calder Birdsey Anchor Object Our anchor object (Fig. 1) is an image from a 1977 advertising booklet produced by Lender and Sons for its 50th anniversary. Lender and Sons was a prominent New Haven bakery that eventually grew into a national business before being acquired by Kraft Foods in 1984. The image, reproduced at Lost in New Haven, shows a quaint yet bustling New Haven street in…