IDEAS CITY STREETFEST The Omnibus team has been busy this week enjoying the many exceptional speakers, workshops, and events that...

Fashion designer Yeohlee Teng and architect Joerg Schwartz discuss their involvement in an initiative to demonstrate the importance of the fashion industry to New York City, and to preserve and strengthen the efficiencies and vitality of its core.

In 1917, the Mayor’s Committee on Food Gardens issued a report documenting the creation of nearly 12,000 gardens and 1,120...

In 2001, Long Island City underwent a significant rezoning to encourage office, retail and residential development in an area known...

Join Urban Omnibus and the Design Trust for Public Space for a field trip to Dutch Kills Green, a one-acre public space at the eastern end of Queens Plaza. Wednesday, May 23, 6:30pm.

THE TAXI OF TOMORROW The "Taxi of Tomorrow", the Nissan NV200, the first taxi specifically designed and engineered for driving in New York City, has been unveiled. While the new cab will feature some major safety innovations, including airbags for passengers and lighter sliding doors, they are neither ADA compliant nor are they hybrids. These are two big criticisms. Nonetheless, the new features emerge...

THE CLEANING OF A GREAT CITY In the late 19th century, a time when New York City’s streets were coated...

TORRE VERRE Torre Verre is back! When development firm Hines first revealed plans for a new Jean Nouvel sliver tower next to MoMA, the City Planning...

PRINTABLE SOLAR PANELS Solar energy has long been touted as a solution to our unending thirst for cheap energy, but traditional panels have always been difficult and expensive to construct and install. Worse yet, they tend to be ugly. Researchers at MIT have now come up with a way to print solar cells on paper, fabric or plastic, with a process that is easy, cheap and...

Last Thursday, the teams from Urban Omnibus and the Design Trust for Public Space met dozens of our fellow public...