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Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City

A first look at a new initiative, developed by the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park, that invites artist-led teams to propose visions for the future of Long Island City.

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BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort

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.

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Foreclosed: Between Crisis, Possibility and Revision

About four years ago, a latent pattern of unethical, self-interested and surreptitious decision-making reared its head to wreak havoc in the American housing market. Americans were living on a dream buoyed by false hope: we thought we could have it …

Thomas Sevcik: Why Art and the Creative Class will Never Save Cities

Art Basel Miami Beach, North America’s premiere haute art fair, where you can pass a Picasso on your right while sneaking a glance at an A-list celebrity to your left, is not often a place where serious critiques of the art world arise. And yet, at this year’s fair, Thomas Sevcik, managing director of…

Design a city for culture or let culture design a city?

When searching the web for dictionary definitions of “cultural district,” amid academic articles and policy papers, Wikipedia’s is actually the most concise: “a well-recognized, labeled, mixed-use area of a settlement in which a high concentration of cultural facilities serves as the anchor of attraction.” Cultural districts can be found…

Design in 5: Sketch120

Design in 5 brings designers together across the city to visit studios, tour projects and participate in an annual charrette. Learn more and watch a video of their latest event.

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Toward the Sentient City: Interviews

Designers reflect on how their work explores implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urban space.

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New New York: Fast Forward
Revisited

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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Reinventing Grand Army Plaza

A look at the 2008 ideas competition launched by the Design Trust for Public Space and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition to generate new visions for New York’s “greatest unrealized asset.”

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