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 200 cities worldwide, in the hopes of raising one million dollars, all of…

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 way. Some will undoubtedly answer that question by pointing to megaprojects, such…

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…

The Roundup keeps you up to date with topics we’ve featured, and other things we think are worth knowing about. 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 Roundup keeps you up to date with topics we’ve featured, and other goings on at the intersection of design and New York City’s built environment. After public consideration of competing visions for Coney Island's future, the City's plan for the iconic seaside

Last Wednesday night NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute resounded with several starkly different visions of Coney Island’s future in advance of the city planning public hearing on its rezoning on May 6th. Author and professor of journalism Suketu Mehta, who convened the symposium, invited representatives of New York City’s…