Remember the old entrance of the Botanical Garden in Brooklyn on Washington Avenue? Well, it changed. // Recuerdan la entrada antigua del Jardín Botánico el Brooklyn sobre la avenida Washington? Pues bueno, cambió.
Anthology Film Archives’ film series “Sometimes Cities: Urban America Beyond NYC” challenges New Yorkers to look beyond traditional notions of urban sustainability.
It’s not simply a matter of water access, but rather a multitiered approach to habitability and improvement.
Summer has arrived! Soon enough, you’ll be seeing blue. Thousands of blue bicycles.
Is crowdfunding website Kickstarter a good way to redesign cities? Alexandra Lange thinks not. In a provocative post at Design Observer, she says: “A suitable funding platform for a watch is not a suitable funding platform for a city.
Today, the city released the locations of the much anticipated stations for the new bike share program, as shown on an interactive map. As noted…
A talk on Earth Day pulled back the curtain on something we thought we all knew: the MTA. Almost as inherent to MTA city travel as the sound of screeching brakes is the griping and groaning we do while on board.
CUP (Center for Urban Pedagogy) is seeking collaborators for the next four issues of Making Policy Public, their publication series that uses graphic and information design to explore and explain complex public policy issues.
The City Council just approved a far reaching set of zoning changes to smooth the path for building owners to adopt new, green technologies. How could this transform the city in the next ten years?
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…
A story in the New York Times on Mayor Bloomberg’s speech in Singapore, where he was accepting an award for urban sustainability, noted that the…
According to Streetsblog, Central Park will be gaining another bike lane, and losing a traffic lane in its place. The path will be along 72nd Street, and will run between Central Park West and Fifth Avenue.
“If we want society to change, we should look at ourselves, and learn from whatever is already working.”
Climate Central, a nonprofit research organization that seeks to bring greater attention to climate studies, has launched a website that allows users to project…
According to yesterday’s New York Post, Pier 2 in Brooklyn Bridge Park will be getting a public pool this summer. It will be temporary — installed for just five years — and about 30′ by 50′. And, it will only be about 3.5′ deep.
To have a more sustainable, livable city, we must make the streets safe and accessible for pedestrians and bikers – cars should not be allowed to rule the streets.
Check out leaders in planning and development at the Pratt Program for Sustainable Planning and Development Spring 2012 Lecture Series!
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.