Make It Visible

Make it Visible showcases innovative strategies in communicating and explicating complex or hidden urban conditions and processes.

Mapping Main Street: Flushing, Queens
Mapping Main Street heads to Flushing for some audio-video explorations of Main Street produced by neighborhood students, providing a local snapshot of the nation-wide project.
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Museum of the Phantom City
Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder share the inspiration behind their iPhone app and pose questions sparked by their research. Read their story and then go tour the unbuilt city.
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A new OASIS for New York
Steven Romalewski, one of the forces behind the development of the Open Accessible Space Information System, takes us on a tour of the online mapping resource's version 2.0.
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The Brooklyn Typology Project
Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman reflects on ways web-based art practice, urban planning data and tireless neighborhood exploration can inform each other, using his own work as a case study.
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Making Policy Public:
Predatory Equity
Glen Cummings shares the process of creating the Predatory Equity Survival Guide.
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Safari 7
Explore ecosystems along the 7 train, from Times Square to Flushing Meadows, with this self-guided podcast tour conceived by Glen Cummings, Janette Kim and Kate Orff.
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Making Policy Public:
Vendor Power!
Candy Chang shares the process of working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and the Street Vendor Project to demystify the regulations of street vending in New York City.
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Play Tag!
Architect and information designer Kadambari Baxi begins a visual communications game featuring new buildings and keywords contributed by designers, commentators and the public.
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Touba in New York:
116th & Lenox
Anna María Bogadóttir makes visible points of connection between 116th Street, the international diaspora of the Mouride Brotherhood and the holy city of Touba, Senegal.
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Let’s Talk About Maps 2
Visual journalist Sarah Slobin talks to longtime Time Magazine cartographer Joe Lertola and looks at some examples from his body of work.
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