In our recent look at the 2010 census, we talked about hard-to-count (HTC) populations and how urban areas, and New York City in particular, have traditionally been undercounted (and thus potentially underfunded and underrepresented). According to the fine folks at CUNY’s Center for Urban
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In advance of a major policy event on technology’s impact on regional planning, Tom Wright and Rob Lane discuss the meaning and uses of innovation in the New York metro-region. |
Traffic in Lisbon – emphasis on sluggish areas from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.
It’s been a week of big projects, big plans, and big ideas.
New York University has announced the NYU 2031 plan, an anticipated 40% growth of the institution in the city over the…
The 2010 Census has begun – you should have already received your questionnaire. And if the 2000 census is any indication only 45% of us New Yorkers have sent it back. In the next few weeks, census workers will begin making house calls to try to gather data from non-responders…
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Steven Romalewski, one of the forces behind the development of the Open Accessible Space Information System, takes us on a tour of the online mapping resource’s version 2.0. |
Kris Goodfellow is the Vice President for Product Management at cyberhomes.com an online real estate site, and she has been specialist in map-making for the last decade. Prior to joining Cyberhomes, Kris was the creative director for the ArcWeb Services team at ESRI, the world’s largest maker of geographic information software. While…
First up, some news and commentary: the Gowanus rezoning is on hold; the shovel-ready tunnel link that will double the number of Penn Station’s Jersey commuters proves once again that much stimulus thinking is short-sighted; and Omnibus fan and fellow cinephile Leni Schwendinger discusses, with a leading…
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Architecture students Wayne Congar and Troy Therrien share the back story of the design competition they organized to invite new visions of post-financial crisis America. |
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Anna María Bogadóttir makes visible points of connection between 116th Street, the international diaspora of the Mouride Brotherhood and the holy city of Touba, Senegal. |
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Visual journalist Sarah Slobin talks to longtime Time Magazine cartographer Joe Lertola and looks at some examples from his body of work. |
