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East River Blueway March 25, 2012 The Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in collaboration with the Office of New York State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and other partners, has commissioned a team led by WXY Architecture + Urban Design to develop the East River Blueway … Continue reading →

Greenmarkets October 25, 2011 GrowNYC Greenmarkets are as diverse as the city itself! Download this map here. Download the 2011 PDF map of all NYC Greenmarkets.

Green Map NYC February 12, 2012 Link: Green Map NYC For all people ready to participate in creating a healthy, sustainable and just world, Green Map System offers a direct pathway to the significant ecological, cultural and civic resources near home through our locally published and interactive … Continue reading →

Rate New York City’s privately owned public spaces October 31, 2011 Check out this map showing NYC's privately owned public spaces, and share your experiences going there. http://citya.tl/sLbXNuSource: www.thenewyorkworld.com, via City Atlas Continue reading →

OASIS NYC Map Makes Loads of Geographic Data Available to the Public September 15, 2011 Great source for community maps of NYC - free and all in one place. Continue reading →

Report issues in your neighborhood with the SeeClickFix map September 1, 2011 Explore the SeeClickFix map of NYC right from this page, or go to their website to become a registered SeeClickFix citizen. SeeClickFix asks us to “Imagine a world where every citizen feels empowered and part of their neighborhood. Imagine if everyone … Continue reading →

My Block NYC – Awesome Video Map of NYC Streets July 27, 2011 MyBlockNYC.com is an interactive mapping website that captures and presents personal video accounts of the life and culture of New York City in order to create an intimate, evolving, and complete portrait of this great city. Users upload videos geographically, … Continue reading →

Interactive Map of the Waterfront from the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance July 27, 2011 The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance is the voice of over 500 organizations with ties to our regional waterways. Discover who is doing what on the waterfront with their interactive map.

ioby.org Projects Map July 27, 2011 ioby brings environmental projects to life, block by block. Search this map to find an environmental project in your backyard.

Brooklyn Greenway Map June 30, 2011 A map of the Brooklyn Greenway Continue reading →

Lifestyle ACTIVITIES

Can you kickstart a city?May 15, 2012 Is crowdfunding website Kickstarter a good way to redesign cities? Alexandra Lange thinks not. In a provocative post at Design Observer, she says: "A suitable funding platform for a watch is not a suitable funding platform for a city. Continue reading →

The bike station map arrives May 11, 2012 Today, the city released the locations of the much anticipated stations for the new bike share program, as shown on an interactive map. As noted on Transportation Nation, there are 420 stations across parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, with more … Continue reading →

Reimagining the city, beginning with sidewalk sheds May 11, 2012 The everyday sidewalk shed -- what can be done with it? A team in the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program at Parsons/The New School saw potential: the result, Softwalks, is a design intervention, a kit that can give sheds features of public furniture or other uses to serve the community. Continue reading →

Bike month rolls on through May May 10, 2012 New Yorkers still have more than half of May left to get involved in bike month. Continue reading →

New York’s hidden green secret May 7, 2012 A talk on Earth Day pulled back the curtain on something we thought we all knew: the MTA. Almost as inherent to MTA city travel as the sound of screeching brakes is the griping and groaning we do while on board. Continue reading →

How Would You Make Policy Public?May 3, 2012 CUP (Center for Urban Pedagogy) is seeking collaborators for the next four issues of Making Policy Public, their publication series that uses graphic and information design to explore and explain complex public policy issues. Continue reading →

City Zoning Turns Green May 3, 2012 The City Council just approved a far reaching set of zoning changes to smooth the path for building owners to adopt new, green technologies. How could this transform the city in the next ten years? Continue reading →

Why The High Line is Even More Impressive Than You Thought May 3, 2012 You may not realize it, but when you walk the High Line, below your feet is an intricate drainage system that helps to reduce storm water runoff and helps to keep our planting beds healthy. The High Line’s landscape uses … Continue reading →

The first Food Book Fair comes to Brooklyn May 2, 2012 This weekend will be the first annual NYC Food Book Fair - celebrating food writing, reading, and activism. Continue reading →

A Food Fight You Should Get Behind May 2, 2012 This Friday May 4th, join author Daniel Imhoff and special guests for a conversation about the Food and Farm Bill, why it matters to you, and what you can do about it. Continue reading →

Learning Made Fun – Let the Festivities Begin May 1, 2012 The World Science Festival kicks off at the end of this month so don't forget to purchase tickets for one of the city's most stimulating, multidisciplinary, and fun festivals of the year. Continue reading →

An art exhibit in Bedford Stuyvesant works to inspire change April 30, 2012 A new exhibit at Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn is showing the work of 27 artists brought together on the theme of sustainability. Continue reading →

People INTERVIEWS ABOUT NYC

Klaus Lackner May 9, 2012 Columbia University physicist Klaus Lackner has developed an artificial tree that can suck carbon from the air a thousand times faster than real trees, an advance that may help in the battle against climate change. Continue reading →

Christine Gaspar April 24, 2012 "All of our projects start by asking a question about how the city works..." Christine Gaspar describes the methods of the Center for Urban Pedagogy. Continue reading →

Eric Sanderson November 15, 2011 I moved from California to New York, and then I got on the airplane a lot to fly to places that you see in National Geographic magazine, that are full of crazy wildlife and really dedicated people… and then we’d fly back to the Bronx, where the ecosystems aren’t what I’m used to. Continue reading →

Stefan Sagmeister, Khoi Vinh, Ji Lee August 8, 2011 "Listening and understanding the other side are the first steps to a truly meaningful exchange..." -- Ji Lee Continue reading →

Gavin Schmidt September 2, 2011 Let’s deal with the science. And there are uncertainties there too, we can talk about those. But gases don’t care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, left wing or right wing, libertarian or conservative. Continue reading →

Britta Riley August 22, 2011 I’m from Texas, I grew up on a ranch. When I go home people say how can you live in that crazy city – it’s so messy and loud. And you have this beautiful landscape where you grew up. What I tell them is that in New York, the landscape is the people. There’s this huge diversity of people from all different kinds of walks of life and you actually interact with one another and that can be pretty fascinating. I think people in New York have been interacting with one another at these very deep levels for a long time, so they’ve gotten pretty good at it. It’s a lot easier to make collaborations happen in New York — because I can recognize that you need something and that you’ve got certain constraints – and I can kind of come up with a good proposal for you for how to make that work out for you but at the same time make it a benefit for me. Continue reading →

David Hyde Pierce November 10, 2011 I’m not a big person for revolution. I believe in change happening at a pace that allows it to meaningful. So much that I’ve seen going on in the city in the past couple years has seemed to be going in the right direction. Continue reading →

Interviews with New Yorkers and visitors June 24, 2011 During the making of this photo essay, someone told us that "the people make the city." With that idea in mind, the City Atlas plans to include ongoing interviews with New Yorkers and visitors, in all five boroughs -- to find out what people think about the future of New York and their role in it. Continue reading →

Grand Central interviews June 14, 2011 A short film containing ideas and thoughts of New Yorkers passing through Grand Central Terminal, by Caroline Kim

Glenn Phillips April 12, 2012 Executive Director of the New York City Audubon: "When should you go bird watching? Now." Continue reading →

Lara Penin and Eduardo Staszowski March 19, 2012 Lara Penin is the Principal Investigator and Eduardo Staszowski is the Director of The Parsons DESIS Lab – which advances the practice and discourse of design-enabled social innovation toward more sustainable cities. The DESIS-Lab conducts applied research into the ways … Continue reading →

Allan Frei March 11, 2012 Everything about the New York City water system is fascinating – the history of it, the social, political aspect of it; and the physical infrastructure of the system. Among cities, we still have some of the best water quality in the world. Continue reading →

Archive EXISTING PROJECTS

Rising Currents March 9, 2012 Rising Currents was a 2010 exhibit at MoMA featuring re-designs of New York City’s waterfront, as a way to showcase ideas for resilient, adaptive protection from rising sea levels. Among the many activities and investigations tied to the exhibit, … Continue reading →

Mannahatta 2409: a work in progress February 22, 2012 Eric Sanderson, ecologist and creator of the Welikia Project, is now leading a team to create a new version of Mannahatta: an interactive tool that will let visitors experiment with the design of the city of the future. Continue reading →

Broadway: 1000 Steps February 21, 2012 Artist Mary Miss has embarked on a project to use the length of Broadway as a space for installations that can engage the public in the city’s plans for the future. In this video from ArtsFwd.org, prepared for the Rockefeller Foundation, … Continue reading →

City Atlas Workshops at Parsons and Hunter September 12, 2011 A design workshop at Parsons worked with historical data gathered by a Hunter urban planning class to create information graphics about NYC. Continue reading →

White Out Global Warming September 3, 2011 The playful style of this PSA encourages viewers to do their part. Something as simple as painting rooftops white is surprisingly effective. Continue reading →

Tree Museum July 20, 2011 Tree Museum was a unique public art project by Katie Holten, installed on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, from June 21 – February 28, 2010 treemuseum.org

Bus Roots June 13, 2011 Bus Roots is a living garden on the rooftops of city buses. Continue reading →

Atlas Lab NEW EXPERIMENTS

2012 Workshops at the Field Lab May 17, 2012 We will be spending a lot of time at La Finca del Sur this summer again, testing out some new plants and growing some more of what worked well. We will have a series of workshops on SATURDAY, MAY 19 … Continue reading →

Opening Day at the Field Lab April 10, 2012 Saturday, April 14th is opening day at La Finca del Sur. Come launch season 2 at the field lab with us. We will be planting the first new plants, spruce up the exhibition and give out field guides to phytoremediation. … Continue reading →

Lab results for 2011 January 4, 2012 Got a little too busy at the end of the year to follow up and soil sampling results we had sent to the lab in late October. But here they are and they are better than we could have ever … Continue reading →

Field Guide printed December 29, 2011 We put together a field guide to phytoremediation based on our research and experience at La Finca del Sur this summer. It’s a 40+ page booklet that translates a lot of scientific research into comprehensible language and graphics. Like for … Continue reading →

Final Harvest October 25, 2011 This past Sunday, we harvested the last standing sunflower, mugwort plants and Indian mustard. We took some soil samples too. So -fingers crossed- soon we will be reporting on the results of the first season of phytoremediation. Especially the sunflowers … Continue reading →

Loop De Loop Recycling Event October 18, 2011 Below are pictures of the GrowNYC Loop De Loop Recycling Event at the Union Square Pavilion. Textile Lab dyed market bags made from reclaimed t shirts that were made on site by the Textile Arts Center and greenmarket shoppers!

Harvest Festival October 18, 2011 Join Field Lab this Sunday 10/23 at La Finca del Sur for a harvest festival. La Finca will be celebrating Halloween, the harvest, the closing of a wonderful summer with food, activities, and performances. We will be answering questions about … Continue reading →

Loop De Loop Recycling with Textile Lab October 14, 2011 Join Textile lab this Saturday 10/15 at the Union Square pavilion for the Loop De Loop Recycling event! We will be there from 11am-3pm dyeing T-shirt shopping bags with flowers and plants collected from the greenmarket.

Greenpoint Greenmarket!October 9, 2011 The lab paid another visit to the Williamsburg and Greenpoint Greenmarkets on Saturday. We made dyes with fennel, cilantro and onion skins from Garden of Eve.

Textile Lab at New Green City October 9, 2011 The Textile Lab visited the New Green City event sponsored by GrowNYC Union Square. We parked next to the City Atlas crew, and made dyes with eucalyptus and cabbage from the greenmarket. We met Johanna from Herbal Garden of East … Continue reading →

Textile Lab In Brooklyn October 7, 2011 The lab will be at two locations this Saturday 10/8. We will be at the Greenpoint market in Mc Carren Park from 10am-2pm, and then we will be going to Smorgasburg on the Williamsburg waterfront from 3-5. Come see us … Continue reading →

Socrates Greenmarket October 4, 2011 A trip to the greenmarket at Socrates Sculpture Park is a great way to spend a Saturday…nature, art and fresh local produce. We took advantage of the vegetable and flower offerings from J. Glebocki and Lucky Dog Farms. Dyes … Continue reading →