Affordability as Infrastructure
New York is a city of renters; most residents rent their homes, small business owners lease their storefronts, and artists share and sublet studio spaces.…
NYC DOT Access to Opportunity Workshop III
Help the New York City Department of Transportation design future streetscapes in the Rockaways and get updates on the Access to Opportunity transportation study. Food…
Oculus Book Talk: Urban Alchemy
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will present Urban Alchemy, Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities, published by New Village Press. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with William Morrish on the intersections of public health and urbanism.
Favelas Pop-Up in Queens!
There are favelas in Queens! Well…sort-of. The iconic Brazilian shanty-towns are making an appearance on the campus of Queens College in Flushing – as a huge set of three playful dioramas.
Social Practice Queens: Re-imagining and Re-invigorating Corona Plaza
Poised at the forefront of important contemporary social movements, community activism, tactical urbanism, and participatory art production, a nascent collaboration develops between a cultural institution,…
What Does Your Utopian Brooklyn Look Like?
A Utopia is an ideal place or state. With this in mind, Curator Katherine Gressel asks artists, youth, activists, architects, designers and urban theorists to consider different visions of an ideal Brooklyn.
Understanding Urbanism, From a Christian Theologian.
Understanding urbanism, from a Christian theologian | Kaid Benfield's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDCPosted March 29, 2011 in Living Sustainably This post is eventually going…