The Green New Deal is the real deal
Like the original New Deal, the Green New Deal is extremely wide-ranging. It addresses agriculture, energy, transportation, economic security, the environment, and the entire social sphere besides.
Teaching low-carbon living
Law professor Karl Coplan reached the Pacific in June, 2019, after riding his bike from the East Coast. And now he’s written a book about how to live extremely well, and on a tiny footprint.
March Forum: Sustainable Policy 201
The Policy 201 forum will engage students, professionals and interested citizens from across the sustainable spectrum in order to gain a deeper understanding of the…
Greening the Grid: New York’s Energy Future
Explore the future of energy in New York City in the face of changing demand, the rise of renewables, and the advent of community-based generation and distribution…
The Steely City
The next Urban Salon will focus on resiliency, both in the material sense and in the social sense. We will explore models of the “future New York” in the face of climate change and (other yet to occur crises) and the lived experience of past events, most memorably and recently, Hurricane Sandy.
How have New Yorkers stood up in times when resilience is required? How can you plan for community response for future events? How can New York continue to grow in an equitable and sustainable way? How do we see issues of equity surface at moments such as Hurricane Sandy and in the government’s response?
Given the recent election and the uncertainty around federal support for urban infrastructure projects, how can and should New York plan for the future?
The panel will be held in Package Free Shop, a recently opened mecca for living zero-waste.
Bjarke Ingels and Kim Stanley Robinson at IDEAS CITY
“An ounce of laws is worth 10,000 pounds of rhetoric.”
Tour Fulton Center Station
Walk with Projjal Dutta, Director of Sustainability Initiatives at the MTA, from the shuttered South Ferry station to Fulton Center station, a gleaming new transit center for downtown New York.
Institute for Public Architecture Presents: An Inventory of What’s Possible
On April 10 at the Pratt Institute architects, historians, urban advocates, and city officials will present case studies of completed work, addressing design excellence and community priorities.
A local guide to FringeNYC
With shows from over 200 companies appearing at FringeNYC, the program guide may feel intimidating. Here, we suggest a few shows that are relevant to what we care about at City Atlas: New York and its future.
DJs & and sculpture blend on Saturdays at MoMA PS1 Warm Up
City Atlas attended Warm Up at MoMA PS1 to dance, give out temporary tattoos, and hang out in a fungi sculpture. Warm Up, an outdoor music series, will take place every Saturday through September 6 in the courtyard of MoMA PS1.
Looking deep into the future of Manhattan
Eric Sanderson’s new interactive urban design website, Mannahatta2409.org, challenges users to see the natural landscape that is still possible within the city.
Does New York need a new scale model?
How can the public best visualize New York City — and surrounding coastline — changing in the years after Hurricane Sandy? A proposal for a scale model of the city and waterfront.
The future of Southern Manhattan
Other boroughs suffered equal, or more brutal, direct consequences from Hurricane Sandy, but the visual impact of a darkened Manhattan captured the imagination.
Book review: Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs
Cheap oil built the modern American landscape. Now what? Eric Sanderson has some ideas.
Kim Stanley Robinson: utopia and how to get there
According to writer Kim Stanley Robinson, we must abandon the ‘middle way’ of coping with crisis, and understand that utopia is possible. But how?
Millennials choose computers and phones over cars
Does the survey reveal a conscious millennial step toward smaller carbon footprints?
Bruce Mau, Robert Hammond, David Bragdon: Three Compelling Interviews
Bruce Mau, Robert Hammond, and David Bragdon are each leaders in thinking about the city and how it can change. We present links to three recent interviews with them here
A Different Approach to Rising Sea Levels
While some city planners are thinking pragmatically about how the city will have to respond to rising sea levels, a recent article (with some great photos to…