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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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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. |
While it’s exciting that Broadway’s redesign is busy shouting to New York City what was whispered to Kevin Costner’s character in Field of Dreams: “If you build it, they will come,” what’s more thrilling from a transportation perspective is …
New York City’s plan to close Times Square to vehicles looks like a triumph. The chaise-lounges [or chaises-longues, depending on whom you ask - Ed.] the city dropped at the Crossroads of the World on May 24th have …
Last Wednesday night NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute resounded with several starkly different visions of Coney Island’s future in advance of the city planning public hearing on its rezoning on May 6th. Author and professor of journalism Suketu Mehta…
Mayor Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan have created quite a lot of buzz today with their announcement of the pilot program “Green Light for Midtown.” The idea is that both automobile traffic flow and pedestrian safety (and …
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The theater company The Civilians has investigated all viewpoints on the Atlantic Yards development proposal as an inroad to broader urban issues of home and neighborhood change. |
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Ulrich Franzen’s 1969 film articulates a bold vision to reclaim Manhattan’s congested streets. 40 years later, we’re still talking about the same thing. |
In San Francisco last week, the City Planning Commission—responding to neighborhood pressures—rejected an application by American Apparel to open a new store on Valencia Street in the city’s Mission District. No matter that the brand is well known for …
