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The Omnibus Roundup – Festival and 50 Ideas Update, Census Count, Using Central Park, and Foreclosed at MoMA
Well folks, we're only a few days away from the Festival of Ideas for the New City. The buzz is heating up, and the poster campaign that we launched to coincide with the festival has hit the streets. And while...
The Omnibus Roundup – Plug-in Cruise Ships, Air Quality, Spring Blooms, Dreamhouse, Burble Bup and Happenings
CRUISE SHIPS TO PLUG-IN AT RED HOOK The New York Times City Room reports that the Queen Mary 2 and other large ships will be required to plug in to giant electrical sockets in the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal starting in 2012. This marks a major win for the residents of Red Hook, who have been fighting...
The Omnibus Roundup – Obscura Day, Manufacturing, BigApps2.0 and States and the Metro Economy
Happy April Fool's Day! For a little urban planning humor, be sure to check out Planetizen's April 1st Edition -- who knew those guys were so funny? . INTERNATIONAL OBSCURA DAY For its second annual International Obscura Day, Atlas Obscura offers excursions into unexpected corners of world cities -- New York, of course, included. On April 9th, you have the chance to explore the inside of the Catacombs at the Greenwood Cemetery, tour the Ghost ships...
The Omnibus Roundup – 200 Years of the Grid, Census Results, League Prize and Waste-to-Energy
NYC GRID TURNS 200 This week marks the bicentennial of the Manhattan grid system, introducing the 90-degree, angular streetscape we know today. The grid reveals priorities of a 19th century New York, and this bicentennial offers a unique moment for urban enthusiasts to explore and understand the ideas behind 11 major avenues and 155 crosstown streets laid out in 1811. The creation of the grid...
The Omnibus Roundup - Shelters, Prefab Yards, MAS Context and Things to See and Do
LOW COST, HIGH SPEED SHELTERS The Tokyo-based firm Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA), known for its ecologically sensitive, flexibly programmed structures, is seeking financial support for their effort to help victims displaced by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. SBA plan to deploy simple, cardboard and paper partition shelters, originally...
The Omnibus Roundup – Japan, Panorama Challenge, Top Tens and Architecture Guides
The calamitous combination of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that hit Japan earlier today has flooded cities, crumbled buildings and left a still-unknown number dead, injured and stranded. Updates and reports are still coming in, but, as expounded on in this Times article, Japan's stringent building codes and a comprehensive system of seawalls helped to stave off what could have been even more extensive damage and higher death tolls. Preparedness and...
The Omnibus Roundup – Ferries, Fulton Transit Hub, Trash, Taxis and Art Fairs
A FERRY FEASIBLE PROPOSAL? The Bloomberg Administration continues to make WAVES (Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy) along the city's waterfront with a ferry service to open later this year. Boats will stop in Greenpoint, Dumbo, downtown Brooklyn and East 34th Street with a potential to expand and connect more remote sites around the city like JFK, La Guardia, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Hunt's Point, Soundview and City Island. In hope that...
The Omnibus Roundup – Revolutions, Roundabouts, Manifestos and Public Transportation
NYC PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION GOING STRONG New York is among the top 15 metropolitan areas for transportation, according to an Infrastructurist article on a National Resources Defense Council study. Jersey City and New Haven also make it on the list, reflecting on the good performance of PATH and MetroNorth trains. Keep it up MTA! And it's a good thing we have public transport, because...