Photo: Giles Ashford
Last Wednesday the Municipal Art Society partnered with Manhattan Community Board 1 (Lower Manhattan) to host a daylong discussion, “Land Use and Local Voices: Is the City’s Land Use Process in Need of Reform?”. The event was organized in response to the… 
The future of our country’s landscape — how and where we will accommodate demographic, economic and environmental changes in the coming decades — is a matter of concern for all Americans, regardless of preference for urban, suburban, exurban or rural conditions. In “A Country of Cities,” a provocative series of opinion…
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How do you involve people in a community engagement process when there is no defined community? Leslie Koch, president of GIPEC, tells us how she did it on Governors Island. |
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…
In a disaster-prone world, to say that crises present opportunities has become a morbid cliché. Yet, nonetheless, the impulse to help requires context, planning and understanding. In the past few weeks, we’ve heard how the low-density sprawl that encourages a high reliance on oil has led to the Deepwater Horizon Oil
Natural disasters: how can we improve?
Panel discussion with Martin Bell OBE, Dame Barbara Stocking (Oxfam GB) & Cameron Sinclair (Architecture for Humanity)
May 25, 2010
Royal Geographic Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London
A mixed and studious crowd gathered at the Royal Geographic Society last…
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Gerald Frug contrasts the structures and powers of city government in London and New York in order to ask a crucial urban question: what are our cities empowered to do? |
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For five years this collaborative has worked to address the challenge of increasing immigrant involvement in city parks. Check out their work and hear from two participants. |
First up, some news and commentary: the Gowanus rezoning is on hold; the shovel-ready tunnel link that will double the number of Penn Station’s Jersey commuters proves once again that much stimulus thinking is short-sighted; and Omnibus fan and fellow cinephile Leni Schwendinger discusses, with a leading…
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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. |
