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Recap: IDEAS CITY StreetFest 2013
by Urban Omnibus • May 8th, 2013
Photos from the Architectural League / Urban Omnibus projects at the 2013 IDEAS CITY StreetFest.
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by Jonathan Tarleton • February 5th, 2013
Upon entering the all-but-unmarked building on a barren street in post-industrial Gowanus, one of the prospective trespassers in attendance at...
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Living with Sandy: New York and Our Very Real Climate Change Future
by Yael Friedman • December 21st, 2012
Superstorm Sandy and its continuing messy aftermath have provoked many serious conversations about New York City’s future. These range from...
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Recap | American Dream: A Tour of the Meadowlands
by Allison Carafa • September 4th, 2012
On Saturday, August 11th, Matthew Coolidge, Director of The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), presented to a packed room at...
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Recap: Field Trip to Dutch Kills Green
by Varick Shute • May 25th, 2012
In 2001, Long Island City underwent a significant rezoning to encourage office, retail and residential development in an area known...
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Obscura Day in New York 2012
by Anna Clarke • May 16th, 2012
Here’s to New York on Obscura Day! We wandered the streets of Gramercy, learning of Oscar Wilde’s old haunts. We...
Entrance to the Brooklyn Museum, the 2004 addition to the McKim, Meade and White building was designed by Ennead Architects (formerly Polshek Partnership), of which Susan Rodriguez is a partner | Photo by Flickr user Tommanyc
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Women Shaping Our World: Architecture, Gender and Space
by Caitlin Blanchfield • April 3rd, 2012
March was Women’s History Month: 31 days honoring women’s contributions, historic and contemporary, to society. As could be expected, the...
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Gardener on the Roof: Examining Urban Farming
by Irmak Turan • March 30th, 2012
How do we measure and communicate the value of urban agriculture? That was the underlying question throughout “Gardener on the...
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Recap | Building Blocks: Knowledge and Innovative Cities
by Sarah Rafson • March 20th, 2012
What makes a city innovative? And in what ways does innovation need the city (or not)? As the panelists at...
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Recap: Megacities and Meta-Cities
by Jessica Cronstein • March 14th, 2012
On the morning of February 23rd, Studio-X opened its doors to a full house of practicing and academic urban designers...
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