A recap of the second of the League’s Conversations on New York, with Dan Doctoroff, former NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, and Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker.

Matthew Storrie recaps the first of the Architectural League’s “Conversations on New York” with Alexander Garvin. Check it out and then join the League THIS THURSDAY for a rare chance to hear Dan Doctoroff and Paul Goldberger discuss the past decade of development and the challenges facing the city looking forward from 2010.

Many urbanists have characterized the years leading up to the current financial crisis as a return of the big vision in urban planning and design: the metropolitan plans, the major rezonings, the megaprojects. For two of the most significant big visions for New York — the NYC2012 Olympic bid and the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan…

Union Square is the latest stretch of Broadway that might soon become another one of Bloomberg’s “signature open-air concrete parks,” pedestrianized and plaza-ified like Times Square and Herald Square. The proposal will be presented on Monday to the local community board…

If economic troubles haven’t already prompted us to reassess current development trends, a panel that assembled November 7 at Cooper Union’s Great Hall certainly could. That’s the hope, at least, for Olympia Kazi, Executive Director of…

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…

First off, save the date: on Tuesday, July 7th, please come and join us and our friends and neighbors, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), for a different kind of SUPERFUND conversation called… “Goo Gone: a live talk show about risk, responsibility and toxins in the landscape.” Panelists…