On Island Time
As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?
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Utopia is a Vacant Lot in Rockaway
On the voids storms and plans leave behind, and what we do with them.
Withdrawn Waters
The balance between New York City's public and private pools has shifted dramatically in recent decades. Why has so much city swimming retreated into towers or behind fences?
Swim Lessons
Pools are sites for recreation and fun. But as much as any public space in New York, they also carry the weight of the city's complex histories of race and place.
Ship Shape
The on-demand economy demands a lot from New York City’s streets. How might logistics better integrate with the city’s sidewalk ballet?
Keith’s Kids
The stylized figures of Keith Haring have spread across the world, but his radical vision hasn’t always travelled with them.
Who Makes the Many Harlems?
Integration without gentrification? Self-determination without segregation? Who has the power to determine Harlem’s future?
A Wanderer in the Unwired City
Presenting the second of two runners-up in our As Seen On [ ] writing competition: Nick Tobier's Uzbek flâneur narrates the theater of urban space to consider the effects of ubiquitous digital connection on people, buildings, and, of course, rodents.
The Value of Land: How Community Land Trusts Maintain Housing Affordability
Oksana Mironova charts an alternative strategy to land ownership and property management that helps communities solve a broad range of problems — including widening inequality and decreasing community control over housing costs — that affect residents across the country.
On Waterways
To mark the fifth anniversary of the launch of Urban Omnibus, we look at themes that have emerged in our content over time and think about what those threads reveal about the needs, desires, and priorities of the city today. Waterways are a central character in the origin story…
Five Years Young
Today marks a milestone for us: five years ago, on January 7, 2009, Urban Omnibus went live.
Typecast
Typecast is a long-term Architectural League study into architectural typologies that begins with a closer look at five "towers-in-the-park," one in each borough of New York City.
Vacant Lots: Then and Now
In 1987, the League launched a design study to examine the potential of small-scale infill housing to contribute to the city’s affordable housing portfolio. We look back at what was proposed, and what was built instead.
The Omnibus Roundup – Labor Day Weekend Edition
Hurrican Isaac makes landfall, Gulfport, Mississippi, August 29, 2012 | Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class R. Jason Brunson, courtesy of the U.S. Navy ISAAC BEGAT RAIN Labor Day weekend: the symbolic winding-down of summer marked by last-minute vacation getaways, residents returning, tourists taking…
The Omnibus Roundup – Bike Lanes, Cable Cars, Beaches, Pools, Fireworks and more
Next Wednesday, in celebration of our nation’s birth, instead of publishing our regular weekly feature, we’ll be honoring the timeless urban tradition of fire escape barbecues, rooftop parties and the particular kind of urban observation only visible by the light of fireworks. The Macy’s fireworks display are on the Hudson…
The Iron Triangle
Nicole Salazar takes us on a photographic journey of Willets Point and sketches its history and the controversy over its redevelopment.
The Omnibus Roundup – Traffic Haiku, Delancey Underground, Suburban Dunescapes, Dream Cities, Designer Scaffolding and the AIDS Memorial Competition
HAIKU TRAFFIC SAFETY With ubiquity comes invisibility. And words can be arranged with the same economy and elegance as high quality graphic design. These two precepts are the inspiration behind the DOT’s latest spate of traffic signs. By combining a little bit of poetry with…
Gowanus Lowline: Connections
David Briggs and Anthony Deen share the winning designs from the first of a series of competitions that address the challenges of developing contaminated urban areas.
The Omnibus Roundup – NYC Solar Map, +Pool, Urban Camping, City Glimpses and More
NYC SOLAR MAP A new interactive map was launched by New York City Solar America City Partnership, led by Sustainable CUNY, to show the potential NYC has for solar panel placement. Showing both existing solar...
The Omnibus Roundup – Japan, Panorama Challenge, Top Tens and Architecture Guides
The calamitous combination of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that hit Japan earlier today has flooded cities, crumbled buildings and left a still-unknown number dead, injured and stranded. Updates and reports are still coming in, but, as expounded on in this Times article, Japan's stringent building codes and a comprehensive system of seawalls helped to stave off what could have been even more extensive damage and higher death tolls. Preparedness and...