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.
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
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…
(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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
With a skyline full of iconic 19th and 20th Century architecture, how does New York both preserve the glories of the past and adapt…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…