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Midtown loungers and lunchers rejoice! Despite rumors last week that the Broadway pedestrian plazas had not met expectations, this week city officials announced that the partial closure of seven city blocks to autos will be permanent. Traffic congestion goals were only met partially, with 7% overall faster traffic… 
02 12 10 • by Urban Omnibus • broadway, parks, public art, roundup, schools, street, times square, transit
As week two of rescue and recovery began in Haiti, the design community began to weigh in on what shape reconstruction should take. But before that can take place, what Haiti needs most of all is money. The best intentions do not ease the distribution or delivery of old shoes, water bottles and…
01 22 10 • by Urban Omnibus • architecture, bronx, public art, roundup, schools, street, urban agriculture, WTC
This week on the Omnibus, Vanessa Keith made some thought-provoking connections between tropical deforestation and sustainable urban retrofitting. Here's another way to think about deforestation in urban terms - this time in the context of the world's great urban parks, from architect and artist Maya Lin
Pike Loop Time Lapse from Storefront for Art&Architecture on Vimeo.
This week's must-read for urbanists is Andrea Bernstein's measured account of Adolfo Carrión Jr.'s national "listening tour" of best practices in urban areas around the nation. The article assembles various public radio pieces related to the Obama administration's newly…
Approximately one million people trample through Times Square everyday - some incessantly pausing to snap pictures of all the chaos while others beeline without ever looking up. On November 11 at 2pm on the corner of 46th and Broadway, Tony Conrad, clad in a neon green T-shirt, used a power drill to open a wooden box half his size that featured a wooden lever, a doorbell, and a sound hole.
11 12 09 • by Veronica Kavass • art review, broadway, Performa, performance, public art, times square
Saturday afternoon, a group of Omnibus readers, WNYC listeners, and assorted unbuilt city enthusiasts gathered in Bryant Park to listen to Museum of the Phantom City designers Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder talk about how their app works, what happens when architects collaborate with app developers, and their curatorial process.
The app, thanks to Irene…
11 03 09 • by Rachel Aland • architectural history, iPhone, live event, locative media, meet-up, mobile media, public art, recap, urban exploration
Psyched for our meet-up tomorrow? You should be. It will be awesome. And no, costumes are not required, but feel free. Don't worry if you don't have an iPhone, there will be more than enough to go around. But if you do, please download the Museum of the Phantom City…
UPDATED: Breaking Ground – A Public Charrette is a site-specific choreography workshop that will be held in one of New York City’s most intriguing sites. Led by nationally acclaimed choreographer Joanna Haigood, the workshop offers participants a unique opportunity to work across disciplines to explore movement composition within the context of architecture, history, and public spaces.
People are pretty psyched about the Museum of the Phantom City, the iPhone app that Brett Snyder and Irene Cheng developed and discussed with us here. So we're going to get together with Brett, Irene and our WNYC friends this Saturday, October 31, to explore the app and talk about…
10 26 09 • by Urban Omnibus • iPhone, locative media, manhattan, meet-up, mobile media, public art, to do, urban exploration, WNYC
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Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder share the inspiration behind their iPhone app and pose questions sparked by their research. Read their story and then go tour the unbuilt city.
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