FESTIVAL OF IDEAS FOR THE NEW CITY: THIS WEEKEND!
There’s so much happening this weekend at the Festival of Ideas for the New City! Check out our more in-depth coverage of the event and below, some of the weekend’s highlights:
THE OMNIBUS BOOTH We hope you’ve caught sight of our 50 Ideas for the New City Posters around town… 
This weekend marked the convergence of transit gurus, software developers, and private and public service experts for the inaugural TransportationCamp, a weekend-long “unconference” presented by OpenPlans with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. The event — featuring group tours of transportation facilities, talks from industry leaders, and self-propelled discussion sessions — aimed to unite transit professionals and self-proclaimed…
The calamitous combination of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that hit Japan earlier today has flooded cities, crumbled buildings and left a still-unknown number dead, injured and stranded. Updates and reports are still coming in, but, as expounded on in this Times article, Japan’s stringent building codes and a comprehensive system of seawalls helped to stave off what could have been even more extensive damage and higher death tolls. Preparedness and…
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Hurricane Earl is coming! Or at least passing by. Though early reports stated that the storm might hit New York City hard, current forecasts are far less ominous. But maybe we shouldn’t rule out landfall yet. BLDGBLOG tells us that cities might actually attract passing hurricanes due to the jagged topography of urban landscapes. The irregularity of city land cover can result in an air vortex…
App-lovers take note: the NYC Economic Development Corporation has presented the winners of its NYC BigApps contest. The winners, who received cash prizes ranging from $500 to $5,000, include the grand prize-winning WayFinder NYC, an augmented reality application that helps users find the nearest…
Saturday afternoon, a group of Omnibus readers, WNYC listeners, and assorted unbuilt city enthusiasts gathered in Bryant Park to listen to Museum of the Phantom City designers Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder talk about how their app…
People are pretty psyched about the Museum of the Phantom City, the iPhone app that Brett Snyder and Irene Cheng developed and discussed with us here. So we’re going to get together with Brett, Irene and our WNYC friends this Saturday, October 31, to explore the app and talk about it. Come…
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Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder share the inspiration behind their iPhone app and pose questions sparked by their research. Read their story and then go tour the unbuilt city. |
Designers! There is still space for you to take part in a stimulating charrette tomorrow afternoon at the Noguchi Museum. Design in 5 is a group of the League that provides unique opportunities and activities for designers of all disciplines five years or less out of school in order…
