Image courtesy of Sustainable South Bronx via NPR

With temperatures in the triple digits earlier this week, residents in major cities like New York, Washington and Philadelphia felt the heat more so than those living in more rural areas due to the heat island effect. That said…

Calling all architects, designers and artists! Now that the city has made the Times Square pedestrian plazas permanent, the Department of Transportation is launching a design competition to “refresh” the existing temporary treatments while the longer, separate process begins to design the permanent plazas and undergo a capital street reconstruction…

Last week we celebrated our first year of being online, which also means it’s been one year since we shared one of our very first features, a multi-part video and audio piece that chronicled the Reinventing Grand Army Plaza design competition organized by the Design Trust for Public…

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…

Speaking of what you can do with the city, The Putting Lot is a collective of professionals from different backgrounds that will bring miniature golf to a vacant lot in Bushwick for the summer. Designs for the course’s nine holes are currently being solicited through an…