Archive for 2010
If each of our readers donated just $10 to Urban Omnibus during this end-of-year giving season, just think of what we could do… 
HOLIDAY-INSPIRED SENSORY OVERLOAD
One of the City’s most well known displays of extreme festivity is a block of homes in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn where you can find dazzling lights and oversized holiday decor, inflatable, animatronic, or otherwise. Check out Gothamist for a slideshow of some of this year’s highlights. Another NYC holiday classic: the midtown…
This week, the massive Flea Market that has operated in the north parking lot of the Aqueduct Racetrack for the past thirty years closed for the season, with considerable doubt as to whether or where it will re-open. Over decades, the market has become a trusted source of a wide range of affordable goods for…
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Kazys Varnelis discusses the temporary “newspaper of public space” he created with Joseph Grima for the New Museum exhibition “The Last Newspaper.” |
Due to public demand, Storefront and the New Museum have extended deadlines, expanded eligibility, and require less documentation. Check out the revised brief here, and be sure to register by the 21st of January…
Yesterday, a group of urbanists, technologists, designers and urban planners gathered at the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation to discuss the future of the crowdsourced city. Four presentations focused on forecasting the benefits, tensions and pitfalls of mining the data that humans generate as they go about their daily lives…
CENSUS MAPS
This week, the Census Bureau released its first 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates, based on data about economic and social trends collected from 2005-2009. The ACS is an annual survey that gathers information from a sampling of US citizens to evaluate of economic and social…
Art Basel Miami Beach, North America’s premiere haute art fair, where you can pass a Picasso on your right while sneaking a glance at an A-list celebrity to your left, is not often a place where serious critiques of the art world arise. And yet, at this year’s fair, Thomas Sevcik, managing director of…
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Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse take us on a field trip through the geoarchitecture of New York City and explain the impact of deep geologic time on our built environment. |
If all public meetings convened by acronymed local agencies benefited from the voice of talented thespians, local politics might be more transparent, and definitely more entertaining.
The Civilians, an investigative theater troupe, takes social debate to the stage through research and interviews that form the content of their…
