MAS Spring 2013 Livable Neighborhoods Training
Livable Neighborhoods offers New York City specific workshops on a range of planning topics including resilience building, the use of census data to understand neighborhood…
Jane’s Walk NYC
On Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5, thousands of New Yorkers will come together for Jane’s Walk NYC – a weekend series of 100+ FREE guided…
Riding the future of the Brooklyn Waterfront Conference
The speakers delved into the history of biking, current undertakings to create bike lanes and redesign streets, as well as proposed future plans–all with a focus on the Brooklyn waterfront.
Growing the Battery Urban Farm
Battery Urban Farm is unique in two ways. First of all, we’re very accessible, located at street-level in the middle of a public park… Second, we are the largest educational farm on public land in all of Manhattan.
New bike share station spotted in Bed-Stuy
A Citi Bike Share station has appeared on the corner of Grand and Fulton Streets
Luxury apartments proposed on NYCHA properties
20 percent of the new units will be affordable housing for families of four making $50,000 or less, while the other 80 percent will be market-rate.
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.
A city of humans
When he began creating the visual census of New Yorkers known as Humans of New York (aka HONY), Brandon Stanton’s goal was to make 10,000 portraits, not to get 10,000 Facebook likes.
Free trees from the NYRP
The New York Restoration Project, the Bette Midler-founded, community garden-protecting organization has announced its annual Spring Tree Giveaway. The NYRP, in partnership with Toyota, will…
The science behind Superstorm Sandy
The wind, rain, and debris from Hurricane Sandy caused an estimated $20 billion or more in damage throughout the metropolitan area of New York and…
New Yorkers forge ahead with rooftop farming
New York has never settled for second place, and the city already has the largest rooftop farms in the world.
Slowing Globalization: Amsterdam, Street Photography, and Urban Renewal
Global cities have been studied predominantly in terms of speed and movement, acceleration and circulation. This talk will examine the relationship between globalization and cities…
Book Launch- Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Fractured Cities
Join author Mindy Fullilove and discussants Helena Hansen and Jack Saul in celebrating the publication of Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Fractured Cities. What if divided neighborhoods…
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.
Cornell publishes extensive guide to urban farming
Cornell University’s Northeast Beginning Farmers Project has published an extensive guide to urban farming in New York State, and it is available for free online.…
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.
Twitter map reveals NYC’s lingual diversity
The map’s English tweets are almost indistinguishable from a road map, creating a grid of New York’s busiest streets. Altogether, 22 languages were identified.