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An Urbanist You Should Know: Esther Robinson

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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Archipelago

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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People Make Parks

Anoo Siddiqi and Hillary Angelo explore participatory design processes in New York City’s public spaces and introduce the People Make Parks initiative.

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Turning Lemons into Learning Gardens

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…

NYC Uncapped

Adrienne Cortez explores the social, physical, and environmental implications of uncapping fire hydrants and proposes an alternative strategy for beating the heat.

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Brooklyn Blogfest 2009

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.

Reimagining Red Hook

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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Reimagining Red Hook Finalists

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.

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Who’s the mayor of your block?

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…

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Where does your neighborhood end?

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.

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