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Shin-pei Tsay describes how a group of volunteer urban planners collaborated to help local stakeholders argue for road safety improvements to Queens Boulevard and to redefine how planners can engage directly with communities. |
Before Urban Omnibus went live, we co-hosted a weekend-long event that invited teams to design a project in the public interest and build it from found materials in two days. The event was led by Bryan Bell, on the occasion of the launch of his 2008 book Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, which surveys the field of “creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good.” Bell, founder of Design Corps and co-founder of SEED, has been working towards a better understanding…
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IfUD’s Anne Guiney tells us what to expect from an upcoming weeklong festival celebrating New York’s public realm and showing how design can make it better. |
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Transportation and livable streets advocate Mark Gorton explains why the car is a flawed technology for cities and shares his vision for a mostly auto-free New York. |
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Six of the minds behind the New York installment of an international traveling laboratory for urban experimentation discuss the theme of comfort in urban space. |
In April 2006, recognizing how blogs had sprung up in response to the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, The New York Times suggested the development “may well be the first large-scale urban real estate venture in New York City where …
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A broad partnership dedicated to restoring oysters to New York Harbor is using science, policy and community engagement to improve the health of our waterways and stabilize our shorelines. |
Over the past year, a growing number of online platforms devoted to civic improvements have been launched in cities nationwide, many of them right here in New York. The Institute for Urban Design launched By the City / For the …
UPDATE June 27, 2011: Calling all designers! IfUD and PPS are now accepting submissions for a “collaborative re-imagining of New York City’s public realm.” Through July 14, 2011, individuals and teams are invited to submit designs inspired by the more …
In September 2009, Steven Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center, took us on a tour of the Open Accessible Space Information System (OASIS), version 2.0. At its simplest, …
