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Roundup – Co-op City, A Cloud of Bottles, Parking and Culture in Downtown Brooklyn, Atlantic Yards Prefab, Post-Sandy Updates and Upcoming Events
by Urban Omnibus • November 30th, 2012
KEEPING CO-OP CITY AFFORDABLE This week, Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and US HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announced a $621.5 million...
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The Omnibus Roundup — Barclays Debut, LOOK!, the New York Wheel, QueensWay vs. Reactivated Rail, Field Trip Day, OHNY, and the NY Art Book Fair
by Urban Omnibus • September 28th, 2012
BARCLAYS CENTER DEBUT Brooklyn, get ready for Jay-Z, Babs, Dylan, Gaga, Bieber — and pro basketball, too! This week marks...
The Omnibus Roundup – Measuring Urban Prosperity and Inequality, Learning from Occupy, Political Architecture at MoMA, and Repurposing a Bronx River Landmark
by Urban Omnibus • September 21st, 2012
THE STATE OF CITIES: PROSPERITY AND INEQUALITY Earlier this month, UN-Habitat kicked off the Sixth Session of the World Urban Forum...
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The Omnibus Roundup — Change in Times Square, Preservation in the Village, Walking in America, Apps for Data, Policies for Transit, and Design for Revolution!
by Urban Omnibus • April 19th, 2012
TIMES SQUARE REVAMP What defines an edge condition? How is the street differentiated from the sidewalk? For the past couple...
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The Omnibus Roundup – Prefab Yards, Megapolitan America, MTA Blitzes, Extending Grids and What to Do
by Urban Omnibus • November 18th, 2011
PREFAB YARDS SHoP Architects and developer Bruce C. Ratner this week unveiled designs for the first Atlantic Yards tower, a...
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The Omnibus Roundup – Bronx, Bike Share, Parking, Peanuts, Gowanderlust, OHNY and Art as Urban Activator
by Urban Omnibus • October 7th, 2011
SOUTH BRONX RISING This week, The New York Times new architecture critic Michael Kimmelman took a walk with NYC’s planning...
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Atlantic Yards Watch: Tracking Daily Impacts
by Norman Oder • August 1st, 2011
In April 2006, recognizing how blogs had sprung up in response to the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, The New York...
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The Omnibus Roundup – High Line, Battle For Brooklyn, Annotated Streets, South Street Seaport, LEED Power and Poe
by Urban Omnibus • June 10th, 2011
HIGHLINE PHASE TWO NOW OPEN Section two of the Highline is open to the public after a surprise soft launch on June 7th, between 20th to 30th Street along 10th Ave. The latest phase has doubled the length of the park…
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The Omnibus Roundup – Shelters, Prefab Yards, MAS Context and Things to See and Do
by Urban Omnibus • March 18th, 2011
LOW COST, HIGH SPEED SHELTERS The Tokyo-based firm Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA), known for its ecologically sensitive, flexibly programmed structures, is seeking financial support for their effort to help victims displaced by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. SBA plan to deploy simple, cardboard and paper partition shelters, originally...
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Theater Review: In the Footprint
by Caitlin Blanchfield • December 10th, 2010
If all public meetings convened by acronymed local agencies benefited from the voice of talented thespians, local politics might be...
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