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The New Resilient City: Big Infrastructure Meets Community Fabric

Duarte Square Canal Street & 6th Avenue , New York, NY, United States

Share your ideas for creating a livable and resilient New York City! Come engage in conversation with a thought-provoking panel of landscape architects and urban…

Free

The digital food experience

New School, Lang Community Center 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall (Room I202), Manhattan, United States

Featuring leading producers of digital web and mobile food experiences in New York, A Moveable Mobile Feast will explore how one of the most passionate personal endeavors…

Free

Indoor composting workshop

Sustainable NYC 139 Avenue A, Manhattan, NY, United States

Learn how to use worms to turn your kitchen scraps into a rich organic fertilizer, and help reduce your carbon footprint. In this hands-on workshop,…

$5

Sustainable, Healthy, and Resilient Construction

Duarte Square Canal Street & 6th Avenue , New York, NY, United States

  How do you think Mayor de Blasio should promote sustainable, healthy and resilient buildings? Urban Green Council and other sustainability leaders are co-hosting a discussion…

Free

Family day at Center for Architecture

The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, United States

Imagine taking a trip to Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo without having to get on a plane! Bring your family to the Center…

$4 – $20

People’s United Nations at Queens Museum

Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States

The event brings together 195 New Yorkers who are immigrants from or have family connections to the 195 member and observer states that currently make up the UN.

$4 – $8

Philosophy of the City

Brooklyn College Boylan Hall, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, United States

Philosophy began in the city (Plato, Aristotle), and the city is a recurrent topic for major writers in the history of philosophy (Aquinas, Machiavelli); today, as the majority of the world's people live in cities, practitioners are taking the field in new directions -- examining the question, "how shall we live?"