New York city is following in the footsteps of Bogotá, Colombia and Curitiba, where some of the busiest city streets now have dedicated bus lanes. DOT announced a new plan this week to make 34th Street the home of New York City's first dedicated bus lanes. The proposal would create…

For all the Pecha Kucha fans out there -- or for anyone interested in stepping out for a good cause -- Global Pecha Kucha Day for Haiti is tomorrow, Saturday, February 20th. Pecha Kucha events will be taking place in 200 cities worldwide, in the hopes of raising one million dollars, all of…

Seems you can't go anywhere these days without hearing mention of urban agriculture. Urban agriculture is where the politics of food production, the sustainability of food distribution, the use of public space, and the health of both our bodies and our communities all come together. So when it's done right, what's not…

As Steven Dale's piece "Off the Road and Into the Skies" shows us, aerial gondolas offer more than meets the eye. And his local case study, the Roosevelt Island Tramway, is not just for tourists. But this spring it will be closed for maintenence - so take a field trip before it's too…

Who doesn't love a field trip? I know, I know, the arctic winds of late make urban exploration less of a priority. But the post-holiday winter cityscape offers some singular opportunities to check out what makes this city what it is. Our friends at WNYC Culture have invited the Omnibus to share some field trip…

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…

I stopped by the Camp for Oppositional Architecture Friday night.  It was a "bar+" night; lectures are held in the space every other day, but nonetheless I wanted to see the space on Front Street in DUMBO and talk to some of the renegades behind An Architektur. I spoke with a German…

The city has been abuzz with news of the Bloomberg administration's $95.6 million deal with Thor Equities for 6.9 acres in Coney Island. Read about the details in the city's press release or the New York Times, and then check out

Here on Urban Omnibus, we are all about urban exploration, maps and interdisciplinary approaches to examining and designing our physical, urban environment. Leni Schwendinger is a designer and artist who works with light to combine all three, always asking the crucial, and often unasked, question: what happens to this environment after…