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Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell Or High Water

Urban resilience also means changes in land use along with better and more equitable ways to protect a city’s people. Realizing these innovations requires that New York and other great cities must give high priority to advancing the emerging capacities to foster and make the most of new approaches to climate risk management.

Harlem Creek Tour – Part I

Join urban explorer Steve Duncan in finding Harlem Creek’s buried path through Central Park to the Harlem Muir as Steve explains how the waterway functions today.

Design in the Age of Efficiency

With recent legislation, new construction and major renovations of New York City-owned buildings now have to meet some of the highest efficiency standards in the nation.

Learn about the new laws with policy and design experts, and discuss what they may mean for the building industry. Refreshments will be served.

Zoning New York Scavenger Hunt

Open House New York and the Museum of the City of New York invite you to celebrate the centennial anniversary of New York City’s zoning resolution with a citywide scavenger hunt to uncover how the invisible forces of zoning have shaped the city around us, from the dramatic setbacks of Jazz Age skyscrapers to the vast open plazas of mid-century Modernism.

Holiday Train Show

For the 25th anniversary of NYC’s favorite winter tradition, enchanting model trains zip through a display of 150 landmarks, each re-created with bark, leaves, and other natural materials under the twinkling glow of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.

L Train Shutdown Charette

https://www.vanalen.org/events/l-train-shutdown-charette/ As neighborhoods along the L train brace for an interruption in service of unprecedented scale, this fast-paced competition asks interdisciplinary teams to propose implementable…

Streams Beneath New York City

 “Urban streams serve a vital role in promoting sustainability by filtering and containing runoff, serving as linear park corridors and reminding us of nature’s presence…

Giving More than They Take

Net Zero Energy and Net Positive buildings are the exemplars that will significantly reduce carbon emissions in New York City: buildings that give more than…

How Design Can Feed a Hungry Planet

Hungry? Join The School of Constructed Environments (SCE) and the editor of the food design site MOLD in a wide-ranging discussion on the future of food, touching on topics like product design for entomophogy, 3D food printing, and reducing food waste.