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 →

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

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 →

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 →

Great source for community maps of NYC - free and all in one place. Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

New Yorkers still have more than half of May left to get involved in bike month. Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

"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 →

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 →

"Listening and understanding the other side are the first steps to a truly meaningful exchange..." -- Ji Lee Continue reading →

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 →

  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 →

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 →

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 →

A design workshop at Parsons worked with historical data gathered by a Hunter urban planning class to create information graphics about NYC. Continue reading →

The playful style of this PSA encourages viewers to do their part. Something as simple as painting rooftops white is surprisingly effective. Continue reading →