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The Urban Fabric District uses the Garment District as a prototype to return life to homogenized Manhattan neighborhoods. The project operates on two levels: an architectural operation to increase light and air to levels necessary for housing and a programmatic reorganization of the block to integrate previously separated user groups through a circular economy of material reuse.