LES LOW LINE
The Lower East Side might be getting a new park. The proposed project, the Delancey Underground, would repurpose the the abandoned underground Williamsburg Bridge Railway Terminal in an effort to inject some green space into one of the least green neighborhoods in the city and to join the ranks of the High Line in reimagining disused infrastructure. The subterranean wonderland lit by…
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A new undergraduate major in urban design prompts us to sketch a history of urban design education and to discuss its future with the new program’s director, Victoria Marshall. |
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Interaction designers Carmen Dukes and Katie Koch create a curriculum for high school students in which the city itself is the classroom. |
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Mapping Main Street heads to Flushing for audio-video explorations of Main St. produced by neighborhood students, providing a local snapshot of the nation-wide project. |
“Design has become too important to be left to designers,” Tim Brown told a packed auditorium at Parsons last Wednesday. Brown, the president and CEO of IDEO, a global design and innovation consultancy based in Palo Alto, advocates applying …
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Artists and educators Jesse Shapins and Brian House discuss new directions in urban media arts, connecting maps, dictionaries and the tools of design education. |
