Far Rockaway Project on Track for this Summer
One of the city’s most cherished public spaces, Rockaway Beach is undergoing significant redevelopment. Started in the fall of 2010 and on-track to be completed…
Ambitious East River Project Surges Forward
In recent news, the East River Blueway project has taken a significant step forward. The project was previously mentioned here in reference to a planning…
New York, NY: The Real Emerald City
The website inhabitat.com recently reported on an audacious proposal by the organization Terreform to take sustainability to the nth level. Aided by a slideshow of…
High Line Shows New Designs for the North Section
The High Line Blog features images of the new designs for continuation of the park into the rail yards north of 30th Street.
Rising Currents
Rising Currents was a 2010 exhibit at MoMA featuring re-designs of New York City’s waterfront, as a way to showcase ideas for resilient, adaptive…
Mannahatta 2409: a work in progress
Eric Sanderson, ecologist and creator of the Welikia Project, is now leading a team to create a new version of Mannahatta: an interactive tool that will let visitors experiment with the design of the city of the future.
Broadway: 1000 Steps
Artist Mary Miss has embarked on a project to use the length of Broadway as a space for installations that can engage the public in…
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
New MoMA Exhibit Re-Imagines Suburbia
The phrase “housing crisis” has been floating around popular discourse a lot over the past few years. In the Museum of Modern Art‘s new…
The Lowline: Next-Gen Urban Renewal
A bold experimental project is being conceived to turn an old, abandoned trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street into the next big thing in urban…
Dr. Ruth on the Magic of Fort Tryon Park
Special for Valentine’s Day, Dr. Ruth describes the magic effect of Fort Tryon Park in this video
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…
Cornell To Build Vast New Campus on Roosevelt Island
Cornell has won the city’s competition to build an entirely new engineering campus in New York City, on city-owned land on Roosevelt Island. The long…
Bicentennial of Manhattan’s Master Plan
A new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Commissioner’s Plan of 1811, the original plan for Manhattan’s street grid,…
Dong-Ping Wong
“Plus Pool is a floating pool in the river for everyone. The most important aspect of the design is that it filters river water through the pool’s walls.”