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UPDATE: Unfortunately, mother nature did not have our walking tour on her calendar today. Due to inclement weather, the potluck and walking tour of the Grand Concourse has been rescheduled for next Tuesday, June 16th. The walking tour will begin at 6:30pm and the potluck dinner… 
On a brisk evening last month, nearly a hundred Cityscapes and Omnibus enthusiasts showed up at the edge of Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek for WNYC/Urban Omnibus’ first meet-up: a walk with environmental sculptor George Trakas.
On June 9th we’re doing it again…
In the couple months since my essay, In Praise of Slowness, was posted here on Omnibus, the meta-question of criticism has repeatedly floated to the surface. It’s been urged on by global upheaval—the end of the Bilbao Ponzi era!—but more modestly by the publication of On Architecture, a collection of…
In San Francisco last week, the City Planning Commission—responding to neighborhood pressures—rejected an application by American Apparel to open a new store on Valencia Street in the city’s Mission District. No matter that the brand is well known for its social consciousness (and soft porn ads). The bald fact of their 250+ stores…
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Andrew Blum articulates the difficulty of communicating architectural urbanism when urban processes of change do not correspond to any existing media cycle. |
