Our friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy have released their latest project, The Water Underground, in collaboration with the Lower East Side Ecology Center, City-as-School and RECYouth. CUP worked with students to research and produce a video exploring our city’s… 
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Vanessa Keith explores some simple yet radical ways to retrofit our urban building stock to address a chief cause of climate change: tropical deforestation. |
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In Part Two of Clip-On Architecture, Vanessa Keith looks at tropical deforestation and catalogues some sustainable solutions currently being applied in the developing world. |
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Jeff Maki explains Manhattan’s District Steam Service as a case study in how citizens can engage in the maintenance of infrastructure. |
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…
Psyched for our meet-up tomorrow? You should be. It will be awesome. And no, costumes are not required, but feel free. Don’t worry if you don’t have an iPhone, there will be more than enough to go around. But if you do, please download the Museum of the…
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The founder of Zipcar and GoLoco talks about everything from mesh networks to taxi stands to why “infrastructure is destiny.” |
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Architects Jenny Broutin and Carmen Trudell reflect on the development of their prototype for energy generating revolving doors, offering a case study for other innovators. |
The energy revolution in the waterways is only beginning. Locally, the currents along this stretch of the East River make it a logical place to start. Looking ahead, I think we need to be careful about a few things…
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An illustrated slide show about tidal in-stream energy conversion and what New Yorkers need to know about its potential to redraw the map of power generation in the city. |
