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The Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskills, a source of NYC drinking water | Image via Angelaelle
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Roundup — City Water, WTC Security Plans, SEE/CHANGE, PATH Hub, Water_Works, and Public Access Design
by Urban Omnibus • May 17th, 2013
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF NYC’S WATER The infrastructure that provides one billion gallons of fresh drinking water to eight...
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Roundup — Payphones, Public Markets, Commuters, Sandy Updates, Street, STORMPROOF, a Recycling Czar, and an Open City Fellowship
by Urban Omnibus • March 8th, 2013
REINVENT THE PAYPHONE On Tuesday, the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge held its Demo Day, showcasing 11 semi-finalists from the pool...
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Missing the Market
by Allison Maier, The New York World • December 3rd, 2012
Surrounded by walls, secured by guards and tucked on the southern edge of the Bronx, the Hunts Point Terminal Produce...
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The Omnibus Roundup – Labor Day Weekend Edition
by Urban Omnibus • August 31st, 2012
ISAAC BEGAT RAIN Labor Day weekend: the symbolic winding-down of summer marked by last-minute vacation getaways, residents returning, tourists taking...
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A Walk to the Old Fulton Fish Market with Robert LaValva
by Urban Omnibus • July 11th, 2012
The founder of the New Amsterdam Market talks about the tradition and history of the public market as civic space, the role of the city in shaping our food systems, and the value, to our cities and our psyches, of cultivating small and local commercial enterprises.
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Save the Dates: Festival of Ideas for the New City
by Urban Omnibus • March 9th, 2011
What makes the city worth living in? How can we encourage and preserve the positive qualities of the city? How can technology be used to improve city life? Are there places or elements of the city that can be repurposed and re-imagined to serve new needs and populations? When we talk about sustainability, what...
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Field Trip: Aqueduct Flea Market
by Cassim Shepard • December 23rd, 2010
This week, the massive Flea Market that has operated in the north parking lot of the Aqueduct Racetrack for the...
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FEED, a migratory exhibition
by Cassim Shepard • September 14th, 2009
What self-respecting urbanist doesn’t love a good public market, especially the kind where farmers and artisans can sell their wares...
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Urban Agriculture: East New York: Farmers Market
by Urban Omnibus • January 6th, 2009
A documentary video in five chapters that explains how East New York’s urban agriculture movement evolved. This chapter is a portrait of the East New York farmers' market.
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