The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of the City University of New York is an urban school in Manhattan with a population of approximately 420 students from the city, the country and around the world pursue professional undergraduate degrees in Architecture and graduate degrees in Architecture, Urban LandscapeArchitecture, Urban Design, and Sustainability in the Urban Environment. This unique school, now fifty years old, is the only public school of architecture in New York City. With this perspective in mind, City College marks a most different position in the constellation of architecture schools in New York and the surrounding region. Its emphasis on the urban situation as a generator of ideas about the appropriateness of programs and forms in the city landscape is one of the most original aspects of the school.