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…
In the Urban Crisis: a Free Lecture Series
(Image via The New School) In the Urban Crisis, a lecture series organized by Parsons, The New School for Design is free and open to…
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…
PlaNYC: Housing and Neighborhoods
New York City is infamous for expensive apartments and the competitive, frantic search for affordable housing. Real estate is of course a very large industry here, but it is also an issue that every person living in the city confronts at some time or another.
Planning for Sea Level Rise in NYC
A recent article over at Capital New York takes an in-depth look at the risks of a rising sea level on the city and what…
PlaNYC: An Introduction
In 2007, the mayor’s office released PlaNYC—a comprehensive guide for New York City that covers everything from brownfields to housing, from water supply to…
NYC’s pop-up cafés will be back this summer
(video from NYC DOT) This time-lapse shows a day in the life of a pop-up café on Sullivan Street. A project of the NYC Department…
Six Urbanist Themes for the New Year
Charles R. Wolfe, the Seattle attorney and founder of myurbanist who wrote the article on Diocletian’s Palace and its lesson on adaptive reuse (also referenced…
Adaptive Reuse in Split
Charles R. Wolfe, an environmental lawyer based in Seattle has written an article on the benefits of adaptive reuse of landmarks in urban redevelopment. According…
Bike Share Planning Workshops Begin To Locate Stations
When New York City’s bike share program rolls out in July, the rental bikes will be spread out across 600 stations. To choose the best…
Past and Future Come Together In Study of Climate Change and Historic Buildings
With a skyline full of iconic 19th and 20th Century architecture, how does New York both preserve the glories of the past and adapt…
Grow Our Grassroots: February 11 Summit for trees, parks and gardens
On Saturday, February 11th, the city’s innovative crowd source platform Change By Us will team up with the Parks Department, PlaNYC and Million Trees…
How the Dutch got their bike paths
Sometimes it looks easy when you visit a European city with great urban planning. But that doesn’t mean it was easy — even in Amsterdam,…
Brook Park, South Bronx
They really do want to put the brook back into Brook Park in the South Bronx. For a brief visit to this well-loved local park,…
Will the next mayor continue PlaNYC?
Since his first term began, ten years ago, Mayor Bloomberg’s presence at the helm has gone on so long and with such assurance that it…
Jules Verne in Long Island City
The MTA’s Tunnel Boring Machine broke through to daylight on the day after Christmas, completing Tunnel A of the East Side Access project, which will…
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…