Urban Omnibus is an online project of the Architectural League to create a new kind of conversation about design and New York City. We commission, gather and deliver the insights of journalists, architects, planners, designers, artists, activists, scholars and citizens. The Omnibus features multi-media content to showcase design innovation, critical analysis and local expertise across a broad range of topics and locales, creating bridges between various communities of interest. Urban Omnibus makes vivid the processes and possibilities shaping New York. Our goal is to increase understanding of the city we have and encourage ideas that can lead to a more inclusive, more sustainable, more beautiful city that could be. Read more about Why Urban Omnibus? in a forum post by Rosalie Genevro, the League’s executive director, published when the site first launched.
We post a new feature each Wednesday, with posts to our forum throughout the week. So please check back often. You can also subscribe to our RSS feed, or follow us on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter. For anything else, you can reach us via email at info (at) urbanomnibus (dot) net.
Unless otherwise specified, all material on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license.
The Urban Omnibus team is seeking interns for fall 2010. Click here (PDF) for more information.
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Collaborators
Urban Omnibus is powered by a diverse group of journalists, architects, planners, designers, artists, activists, scholars and citizens, all of whom contribute their knowledge, opinions, and expertise to this project. Click here to see a list of the people who have collaborated with us thus far.
Staff
Cassim Shepard
Project Director
Varick Shute
Project Manager
Jane Kelly
Sam Silver
Katie Stapleton
Project Associates
Editorial Board
Rosalie Genevro
Chair, Executive Director,
The Architectural League of New York
Kadambari Baxi
Contributing Editor
Andrew Blum
Contributing Editor
Susan Morris
Consulting Editor
Advisory Committee
Adam Greenfield
Director of Design Direction,
Nokia
Olympia Kazi
Director,
Institute for Urban Design
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer
Executive Director,
Queens Council on the Arts
Laura Kurgan
Director, Spatial Information Design Lab,
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Deborah Marton
Executive Director,
Design Trust for Public Space
Ellen Pollan
Director, South Bronx Cultural Corridor,
Bronx Council on the Arts
Daniel Seltzer
Technology Strategist
Mark Shepard
Co-director, Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies,
University at Buffalo
Beth Stryker
Architect and Media Artist
Rosten Woo
Executive Director,
Center for Urban Pedagogy
Web Design
Red Antenna
Support
The development and pilot phase of Urban Omnibus have been made possible by the the NYC Cultural Innovation Fund of the Rockefeller Foundation. Urban Omnibus is also supported by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about supporting Urban Omnibus, click here.
