Cassim Shepard
Cassim Shepard is the editor of Urban Omnibus. He makes non-fiction media, especially films and video, about architecture and urbanism. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Dancing in the Streets: Breaking Ground

UPDATED: Breaking Ground – A Public Charrette is a site-specific choreography workshop that will be held in one of New York City’s most intriguing sites. Led by nationally acclaimed choreographer Joanna Haigood, the workshop offers participants a unique opportunity to work across disciplines to explore movement composition within the context of architecture, history, and public spaces.

Call for Fellows: Made in Midtown

Alright, we know that many among you are journalists, filmmakers, urban designers or (if you’re like us) you fit somewhere in between. Well, our dear friends and fellow public space partisans the Design Trust just might have an opportunity for …

Atlantic-Pacific meet-up

Atlantic Avenue – Pacific Street is a station where ten (ten!) subway lines converge. (Only nine come together at Times Square – 42nd Street, the system’s busiest station). Don’t miss an opportunity – next Wednesday at 6:30 – to …

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FEED, a migratory exhibition

What self-respecting urbanist doesn’t love a good public market, especially the kind where farmers and artisans can sell their wares directly to the customer while intensifying the use of public space? As practical examples go, the Omnibus team is particularly …

Pipe-within-a-Pipe

When the League said goodbye to the Urban Center, Madison Avenue reminded us that innovative infrastructure often lies just outside your doorstep.

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New York Transit Data: Is the Future Wide Open?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been hearing a lot of people wondering what’s so special about the L train and the 34th Street crosstown bus that allows these transit routes to make known the ETA of the next train or bus? And then, just when civic-minded tech developers take matters in their own hands and push schedules onto the mobile devices of riders, they get the smack-down from…

Calling all shutterbugs:
join the New New York Photography Corps

… here’s your chance to work with leading architectural photographers and archivists and to contribute original photography to an exhibition that will interrogate how the physical city has changed since 2001.

Right to the City #3: Screenings tonight!

Last week we had a great time at the second installment of Red Channels’ excellent Right to the City film series. Tonight is the third and final screening. Don’t miss it. To refresh your memories, the first screening showcased some beautiful

Right to the City #2: cool, old films about NYC transit

For all of you who missed the first installment of Red Channel’s impeccably curated, hard-to-find city-symphony films last week at the Brecht Forum, you get another chance to try to slake your thirst for vintage New York on film next Monday. The July 23rd screening was notable not only for the rare chance to see some of my favorite…

Nehemiah! Radical Pragmatism! July 23rd!

This Thursday, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is presenting another installment of their excellent People and Buildings series of live talk shows. This one will shed light on the fascinating back-story of the partnership, leadership, reverendship and, er, ‘architectship’ that has, to date,

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