city government
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Gerald Frug contrasts the structures and powers of city government in London and New York in order to ask a crucial urban question: what are our cities empowered to do?
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There’s a new, bright green poster that will be making an appearance around the city in the near future, encouraging people to take the stairs and ”Burn Calories, not Electricity.” In addition to reducing our carbon footprints, the city is offering us another way to help the environment and to help ourselves…
As you've probably heard by now, a state appeals court has barred the use of eminent domain for parts of a 17 acre site intended for development by Columbia University, ruling the condemnation unconstitutional. This on the heels of last week's more developer-friendly rulings for Atlantic Yards and…
12 04 09 • by Urban Omnibus • affordable housing, architecture, bronx, city government, eminent domain, housing, manhattan, roundup
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For five years this collaborative has worked to address the challenge of increasing immigrant involvement in city parks. Check out their work and hear from two participants.
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Yesterday we joined business and tech leaders from around the world (we were a little under-dressed, to say the least) at IBM's Smarter Cities forum. IBM's President and CEO Sam Palmisano kicked things off by explaining why cities are a focus area within IBM's broader Smarter Planet initiative. Sure, the…
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Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe shares with Alec Appelbaum some thoughts on several recent and upcoming additions to the city's collection of parks created on unlikely sites.
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This week we listened to some new strategies to involve community stakeholders in the design of public spaces, strategies tested in the parks of Manhattan's Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Meanwhile, across the country in LA's Chinatown, urban planner James Rojas has assembled an interactive city model from legos, blocks and…
07 31 09 • by Urban Omnibus • affordable housing, atlantic yards, city government, coney island, film, news, public space, rezoning, roundup, to do
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Anoo Siddiqi and Hillary Angelo explore participatory design processes in New York City's public spaces and introduce the People Make Parks initiative.
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Like most of my colleagues, I tip my hat to Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council for devising a plan to make landlords retrofit older buildings. And like the cleantech advocates who stood beside me on a Rockefeller Center terrace to hear the mayor outline…
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David Benjamin, Deborah Berke, Hugh Hardy, Gregg Pasquarelli, Marilyn Jordan Taylor, and Claire Weisz answer the question: “What does New York City need to do to sustain itself...
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