• Designing Green Roofs and Rooftop Farms

    Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm - Navy Yard 63 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Calling all architects, landscape designers, urban planners, sustainability coordinators and greening professionals of all stripes! Whether you're responding to an affordable housing RFP, or designing…

    $40
  • Design Tour: Elevated Design

    The High Line, Gansevoort Street Entrance 820 Washington Street, New York, NY, United States

    Get an insider's look at the unique design elements of the High Line and the notable architecture in the neighborhood with Patrick Hazari, Friends of…

    Free
  • The Poison Cauldron of the Newtown Creek

    Kingsland and Norman Avenue Kingsland and Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Explore the hellish waste transfer and petroleum districts of North Brooklyn on this daring walk towards the doomed Kosciuszko Bridge.

    $25
  • Affordability as Infrastructure

    Enterprise Community Partners 1 Whitehall Street, 11th Floor , NYC

    New York is a city of renters; most residents rent their homes, small business owners lease their storefronts, and artists share and sublet studio spaces.…

    Free
  • Climate Change and the Future of Cities

    The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

    What can cities do about climate change? How can they help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable forms of collective life? How can…

    Free
  • Design Experiments for the Rebuilding of Houston and other Disaster Cities

    The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

    Professor Natalie Jeremijenko directs the Environmental Health Clinic, and is an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department, NYU and affiliated with the Computer Science…

    Free
  • Designing to Avoid Disaster

    The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

    Thomas Fisher, a professor and Director of the Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota, will discuss the fracture-critical nature of many of the…

    Free
  • City Design in Times of Proliferating Informality and Climatological Crisis

    The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

    This lecture by Alfredo Brillembourg will explore the work of ETH Zurich Urban-Think Tank (U-TT), an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design…

    Free
  • Battery Park City: Creating a New Neighborhood

    Battery Park City South Cove, New York, NY, United States

    After more than four decades of planning and construction, Battery Park City has been built out, following a master plan by Cooper, Eckstut and Associates. Learn about…

    $30
  • Urbanist Summer Scavenger Hunt

    On Thursday, July 19, 6:00–9:00 PM, the MAS Urbanists will team up with AIA New York’s Archtober to host a summer scavenger hunt. Join us and put your knowledge of local…

    $10
  • The New Urban Crisis

    Van Alen Institute 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    On Tuesday, July 31st  Join Van Alen Institute as we delve into Richard Florida’s The New Urban Crisis. In 2002, Richard Florida published The Rise of the…

  • CITIESALIVE 2018

    New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge 333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE: DESIGNING THE FUTURE OF RESILIENCE What is the future of our city regions? Will they be unbearably hot and regularly flooded by intense…

    $150