The New York Apartment
This week, New York Magazine has a huge spread on New York City apartments and neighborhoods, in an issue dedicated to “one of the things that has most defined New York life for centuries and has …

Yumiko Matsui is a New York-based paper artist who was trained as a painter in her hometown of Osaka, Japan. Her project Coney Island, created in 2009, depicts the amusement park in minute detail and at a miniature size — …

Union Square is the latest stretch of Broadway that might soon become another one of Bloomberg’s “signature open-air concrete parks,” pedestrianized and plaza-ified like Times Square and Herald Square. The proposal will be presented on Monday to the local community board, …

For all the Pecha Kucha fans out there — or for anyone interested in stepping out for a good cause — Global Pecha Kucha Day for Haiti is tomorrow, Saturday, February 20th. Pecha Kucha events will be taking place in …

The city has been abuzz with news of the Bloomberg administration’s $95.6 million deal with Thor Equities for 6.9 acres in Coney Island. Read about the details in the city’s press release or the New York Times, and then check out

So, Mayor Bloomberg will be mayor for a third term. What will this mean for the architecture, planning and urban design that have received more policy attention from his administration than from previous ones? Thoughts, opinions, predictions? Send them our …

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 …

Happy 4th of July weekend! New Jersey, we’ll see you on the banks of the Hudson tomorrow, as the fireworks move west in honor of the 400th anniversary of Henry’s exploration of the river.  This year’s holiday brings an extra …