photography
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… 
02 05 10 • by Urban Omnibus • art, broadway, climate change, excess capacity, infrastructure, iPhone, manhattan, maps, open source, photography, roundup, street, technology, traffic, transit
Safari 7 is back! Actually, it never went away. But starting next Thursday you can delve deeper into the 3D maps, drawings and podcasts that illuminate the ecosystems along this urban transect that runs from Times Square to Flushing.
OPENING: THU 7-9PM OCTOBER 15
LOCATION: Studio-X 180 Varick Street, Ste 1610 New…
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Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe shares with Alec Appelbaum some thoughts on several recent and upcoming additions to the city's collection of parks created on unlikely sites.
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Wait, the site in the image above couldn't be in Manhattan, could it? It is, in fact. It's one of the many overlooked spots of our dense urban island in which a recalcitrant nature has overcome vestiges of a forgotten built environment. For his Nowhere in Manhattan project, photographer Michael…
08 13 09 • by Urban Omnibus • bicycles, infrastructure, news, photography, roundup, stimulus, transit, use-on-demand
... here’s your chance to work with leading architectural photographers and archivists and to contribute original photography to an exhibition that will interrogate how the physical city has changed since 2001.
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Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman reflects on ways web-based art practice, urban planning data and tireless neighborhood exploration can inform each other, using his own work as a case study.
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Vishaan Chakrabarti walks through one of the city's favorite spaces. His reflections range from design details to regional economics to the relationship between infrastructure and density.
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Frank Duffy and Rosalie Genevro reflect on the buildings of Lower Manhattan, critically assessing what our use of commercial space can tell us about our changing city.
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Regional Plan Association President Bob Yaro reflects on the transformation of Midtown West, focusing on three pivotal sites: Penn Station, Hudson Yards, and the Javits Center.
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This much we know: There are a lot of images floating around out there online. A lot of them depict New York City. And a lot of them are on Flickr.
We want to see the photos that reveal new ways of looking at our shared built environment: unveiling hidden details, documenting cool… 
