The CEO of the city’s first non-profit industrial developer discusses how his organization creates space for a new generation of urban manufacturing in New York City.
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Rules of Conduct
Urban planner Douglas Woodward analyzes the rules posted in privately owned public spaces to investigate some of the challenges involved in the private provision of public goods.
Coordinates
In the final selection from the Unfinished Grid Essay Competition, Annie Choi takes us on a neighborhood stroll that reveals the grid’s subtle influence on our everyday experience of the city.
The Landscapes of Region 11′s Built System
Jim Lau shares the landscape architecture work of the New York State Department of Transportation, including a skatepark under the BQE, a waterfront park in Inwood, and an extensive greenway along the Bronx River.
Living Room: Housing Works Builds Housing
Gavin Browning calls attention to the supportive housing developments and programs of Housing Works so often overshadowed by the organization’s more familiar street-level enterprises.
A Field Guide to AC Units
Allison Carafa takes us on a fresh and cheerful journey through an under-explored but ubiquitous aspect of our urban environment: the window air conditioning unit.
A Conversation with Mitch Epstein
From a personal story of industrial decline to a national exploration of energy production, the artist discusses the themes that connect his body of work, including his current exhibition of photographs of some of New York’s extraordinary and idiosyncratic trees.
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Join Urban Omnibus and the Design Trust for Public Space for a field trip to Dutch Kills Green, a one-acre public space at the eastern end of Queens Plaza. Wednesday, May 23, 6:30pm. |
The CEO of the city’s first non-profit industrial developer discusses how his organization creates space for a new generation of urban manufacturing in New York City. |
Matilde Cassani discusses her archive and exhibition and what it reveals about the evolving relationship between religious praxis, cultural identity and urban life. |
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Dylan Thuras explains the story behind an online compendium of weird and wondrous places, reflecting on the nature of exploration, discovery and wonder. |
by Deborah Wye
Curator Deborah Wye explains how the Orchard Beach Pavilion inspired her to research and present the building’s history, to advocate for its preservation and to explore the city through some of its neglected civic architecture. |
The director of an MTA program to bring visual art and performance to New York City’s public transportation system talks about activating spaces of infrastructure, improving rider experience and harnessing the power of public art. |
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by Zhenya Merkulova and Paul Gates
The exhibition of Paul Rudolph’s Lower Manhattan Expressway project currently on view at the Cooper Union may appear at first glance to be an academic excavation of a historical artifact, a lesser-known work by a prominent architect best remembered for individual buildings rather than for his visions of the metropolis. Although… |
Joshua Nelson explains how freight rail works in New York, reflecting on rail’s environmental and economic advantages as well as its role in getting potatoes to your local market. |
New Yorkers take it for granted that we can say things like “meet me at 85th Street and Third Avenue” and know that regardless of whether someone has been to that intersection, they will easily be able to get there. It’s all thanks to Manhattan’s legendary street grid, which celebrates its 200th anniversary this year. A little history of the grid |
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LIFEEDITED ON SULLIVAN STREET
The video above shows Graham Hill, the sharp eco-entrepreneur behind TreeHugger.com and those supercool, bodega-chic ceramic cups, describing his new venture, LifeEdited, an approach to sustainable living based on living in smaller spaces with much …
Obscura Day in New York 2012
by Anna Clarke
A couple of months ago, we spoke with Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura, about curiosity, exploration and the compiling of a ”collaborative compendium of amazing places that aren’t found in your average guidebook.” Our conversation was in anticipation of …
UPDATE: Field Trip to Dutch Kills Green postponed until May 23rd
Join Urban Omnibus and the Design Trust for Public Space for a field trip to Dutch Kills Green, a one-acre public space at the eastern end of Queens Plaza. Wednesday, May 23, 6:30pm.
Stillspotting Queens: Transhistoria
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