Varick Shute
Varick Shute is the project manager of Urban Omnibus. She lives in Brooklyn.
http://urbanomnibus.net
Atlantic-Pacific Recap
Wednesday night, Urban Omnibus, WNYC and friends gathered at the Atlantic Avenue - Pacific Street subway station to do exactly what every New Yorker tells you to never do: we stood still in a large group in the middle of a busy subway...
Museum of the Phantom City Scavenger Hunt
Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder are launching a mobile media project this weekend that allows people to browse proposed, visionary, but unbuilt designs for New York City on your iPhone. (Reason #172 why I love having an iPhone.) Museum of the Phantom City: OtherFutures is a project Cheng…
Anonymous public gifting by Raleigh designers
Remember how much fun we had when we got together and made a difference in two days? Well, a team of North Carolinians felt like taking matters into their own hands, without warning and without ceremony. Design activist extraordinaire…
Park-in-a-Box
Transportation Alternatives and the Open Planning Project have launched a new competition, POP.Park, that asks the creative among us to design portable, affordable, pre-fabricated pop-up parks. The idea starts with Park(ing) Day, the annual reclaim-a-parking-space-as-public-park event, and takes it a step further, aiming to…
Turning Lemons into Learning Gardens
Many of you have been getting into work by Marpillero Pollak Architects, info about East New York, and all the interesting happenings over at the Architectural League. If you fall...
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Kill the Brochure
Last month, the Architectural League presented New York Designs, an annual juried lecture series that provides a forum for the presentation of innovative and...
The Reorganized Street
Mayor Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan have created quite a lot of buzz today with their announcement of the pilot program “Green Light for Midtown.” The idea is that both automobile traffic flow and pedestrian safety (and sanity) can be improved, and public and green space can be increased, through two…
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