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Esther Robinson’s approach to supporting the arts through asset-building is something everyone interested in cities and neighborhoods should know about. |
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This original Urban Omnibus-produced video explores a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner’s Harbor, Downtown Brooklyn, and Chelsea. |
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Anoo Siddiqi and Hillary Angelo explore participatory design processes in New York City’s public spaces and introduce the People Make Parks initiative. |
Many of you have been getting into work by Marpillero Pollak Architects, info about East New York, and all the interesting happenings over at the Architectural League. If you fall… 
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Adrienne Cortez explores the social, physical, and environmental implications of uncapping fire hydrants and proposes an alternative strategy for beating the heat. |
So Brooklyn is (one of) the “bloggiest” place in America (see endnote) – a fact verified and positively fêted at Thursday night’s Brooklyn Blogfest, now in its robust fourth year. Here was the opportunity to put faces to the blogs based in this truly outspoken borough, and more than 300 digerati emerged to revel in each other at The Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO.
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Lisa Chamberlain explores the Forum for Urban Design’s interdisciplinary design competition that aims to make Red Hook the most bicycle-friendly neighborhood in New York City. |
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Lisa Chamberlain takes a look at selected competition entries from Reinventing Red Hook, a design competition that aims to make Red Hook the most bicycle-friendly neighborhood in New York City. |
You know the one I mean. He may organize community meetings to protest the latest high-rise proposal or solicit your support for the new jobs and new housing he’s bringing to the neighborhood. She might sign for your packages in the bodega or run your community board with compassion and vigor. Maybe he sells old…
The question may seem innocuous, but in a moment at which notions of appropriate scale and contextual architecture are fightin’ words, neighborhood boundaries can make or break urban propositions.
