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Joshua Nelson explains how freight rail works in New York, reflecting on rail’s environmental and economic advantages as well as its role in getting potatoes to your local market. |
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In our second video on complex urban systems, we consider the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge as both an icon of civil engineering and a catalyst for systemic urban change. |
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In a city of islands, who makes sure our waterways are safe and working? Cdr. Linda Sturgis and Lt. Cdr. Ed Munoz shed light on what it takes to manage and protect one of our most important assets. |
STATE OF THE CITY
Mayor Bloomberg delivered the State of the City address on Wednesday. His focus was on neighborhood specific issues, including various changes ranging from livery cab policies to urban technology innovations. “Transformation” — economic, technological, physical, social, and otherwise — and “simplicity” were the words of the day. The Staten Island Navy..
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Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse take us on a field trip through the geoarchitecture of New York City and explain the impact of deep geologic time on our built environment. |
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Dana Gumb explains how the City has engineered Staten Island’s wetlands and waterways to enhance their natural ability to convey, store and filter stormwater. |
The American Society of Landscape Architects held their Annual Meeting & Expo this month in Washington, D.C. This year is the 100th anniversary of Landscape Architecture magazine and the District’s famous Heights of Buildings Act, which, incidentally, limits heights…
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This original Urban Omnibus-produced video explores a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner’s Harbor, Downtown Brooklyn, and Chelsea. |
The term landscape might suggest images of shaded glens, rolling plains, sublime mountains, or manicured lawns. This descriptive vocabulary is primarily aesthetic or emotional. Yet the great surveyed grids of the West, the patterns of farming, transportation, housing, and industry indicate that the choices that underlie the form of the American landscape have a lot to do with function; the “American landscape” is a much…
Update: You can now view Archipelago, an original Urban Omnibus video production, exhibited in The City We Imagined / The City We Made, that explores a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner’s …
