counter/point: The 2013 D-Crit Conference
Come listen to lectures and presentations from a number of highly regarded design curators, practitioners, theorists, critics, educators, and planners at the counter/point: 2013 D-Crit Conference!
New housing designs for New York’s future
Making Room showcases designs to meet the shifting demographics of cities, such as creating housing for singles and adjusting to changing family sizes.
Ingenuity in the Extrapolation Factory
An experiment in public thinking about future design gave participants a chance to develop ideas and voice one’s own opinion, through making the kinds of objects that might be found in a 99c store of the future.
SimCity: urban planner approved
The franchise’s recent release, the first in over a decade, claims to be most realistic simulation of urbanism and planning yet, while still remaining gamer-approved.
Drake and the resilient city
With transparency and sustained idealism, Drake presented her firm’s urban sponges, parks, and “infra-sutures” that aim to heal past wounds and current conflicts caused by massive city projects–like Moses’s BQE, and by “acts of god” like Sandy.
Claire Weisz
“…Our cities all over the country–from Detroit to New Orleans–present the best opportunity for lowering our carbon footprint…”
Redesign, revive the Rockaways: MoMA’s call for ideas
MoMA and PS1 will present 25 winning designs for alternate public housing, for new public space, and other sustainable, new developments for the Sandy-ravaged neighborhood. The call is open to everyone.
Winner of the adAPT NYC micro apartment contest announced
The 2010 Census showed rapid growth in one- to two-person households in Manhattan, and the current housing supply of studios and one-bedrooms is approximately 800,000 units short of the demand.
Small + Shared = Green: A New Approach to Sustainability
A panel discussion introducing innovative methods to reduce the carbon footprint of cities by upping population density while still maintaining comfort and livability.
Sustainable Living: Creating Lasting Habitats
3rd Ward presents a night of sustainable living discussion that will widen your horizons and help you realize its fundamental tenets, and how you can benefit from it. Our discussion will be lead by Mary Mattingly of The Flock House Project, and Mark Jupiter of New World Home. 3rd Ward member Michael Doherty of Bitponics will moderate the evening’s discussion and Q&A.
Art and Architecture of the Subway
Municipal Art Society presents a tour featuring the art, architecture and history of New York’s subway system.
A tribute to Andrew H. Green: New York’s forgotten visionary
The park planned to commemorate one of New York City’s forgotten heroes is at risk.
Seeing like a tourist: Grand Central Terminal walking tour
Looking to entertain out of town friends or relatives this holiday season? Take advantage of the opportunity to act like a tourist in your own town and sign up for a walking tour with the Municipal Arts Society. This free weekly Grand Central Terminal walking tour offers unique and entertaining insights into one of the city’s historical sights.
MAS Summit 2012: imagine a donut above Grand Central, and Park Ave with a park in the middle
Last month, the Municipal Art Society held its third annual summit on the theme of Density, Development, and Diversity. For two intense, jam-packed days, designers,…
Eds, meds, and environmental friendliness
New construction and renovation plans aplenty in NYC’s health and education sectors, but will the planners keep their promises for sustainable development?
New Developments on Roosevelt Island
The island is now home to a memorial to FDR and soon, a Cornell Tech Campus
“Greening up” public housing
Simple, cost-effective environmental retrofitting of public housing is well within the realm of possibility.
Revisiting the Rising Currents solutions: creating buffer zones for the city
As a series of posts on City Atlas have shown, the storm that swamped New York on October 29th pushed climate change onto the national…