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Calling all architects, designers and artists! Now that the city has made the Times Square pedestrian plazas permanent, the Department of Transportation is launching a design competition to "refresh" the existing temporary treatments while the longer, separate process begins to design the permanent plazas and undergo a capital street reconstruction project. The… 
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
Friday night I braved the cold to attend the opening reception for “Designing the Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza – Pop Up Exhibition and Workshop,” sponsored by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership and the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn BID. The event brought together neighborhood residents, business owners, committee leaders, and…
App-lovers take note: the NYC Economic Development Corporation has presented the winners of its NYC BigApps contest. The winners, who received cash prizes ranging from $500 to $5,000, include the grand prize-winning WayFinder NYC, an augmented reality application that helps users find the nearest…
02 05 10 • by Urban Omnibus • art, broadway, climate change, excess capacity, infrastructure, iPhone, manhattan, maps, open source, photography, roundup, street, technology, traffic, transit
This week brought news that Tishman Speyer and BlackRock Realty are handing over Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village to creditors to avoid bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal lists the estimated value of the properties at $1.8 billion, just three and a half years after the $5.4 billion deal to purchase the…
01 29 10 • by Urban Omnibus • infrastructure, manhattan, queens, rail, real estate, roundup, street, transit, waterfront
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
Instead of our usual Wednesday feature, today we wish you a happy Thanksgiving holiday with an early edition of the weekly Omnibus roundup.
11 25 09 • by Urban Omnibus • adaptive reuse, atlantic yards, bronx, brooklyn, roundup, street, water
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Diana Balmori shares a flexible and inexpensive design scheme - complete with public engagement a la Twitter - to create street furniture and plantings that reimagine the public space of Gansevoort Plaza.
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Before Balmori Associates began to develop the the design scheme detailed here, they first opened up the question of what a public space should be. Designers from the studio joined 40 Dutch urban design students and their teachers for a lively conversation that engaged the opinions of people around the neighborhood and the…
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