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The Omnibus Roundup – Towers in the Park, Convention Centers in Queens, Tidal Turbines in the River, Presidential Omissions and Lots of Things To Do

First up, a reminder: The deadline for The Unfinished Grid essay competition, our call for writing on the Manhattan street grid as paradigm, rubric or muse for urban life, is just around the corner! Submit by 5pm on …

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Writing the City

Beyond Flyover Urbanism: Learning from São Paulo

Thaddeus Pawlowski reflects on his participation in a recent professional urban design exchange between São Paulo and New York.

elsewhere, housing, open space, opinion, towers in the park, traffic, transit, urban planning

Sites + Projects

Studio Report: Reimagining Towers-in-the-Park

Roy Strickland describes a student project that combines infill development, real estate financing and urban design to re-envision the housing projects of the Lower East Side.

architects, density, housing, lower east side, manhattan, open space, public housing, studio report, towers in the park

Act Local

NORCs in NYC

Interboro Partners shares a selection of their work on “Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities,” challenging us to design and advocate for generational diversity.

advocacy, density, housing, naturally occurring, retirement, taking stock, towers in the park

Walks and Talks

A Walk up Avenue D

Sociologist Dalton Conley takes us on a walk through the public housing complexes where he grew up, reflecting on the economics of housing policy and the limits of design.

affordable housing, determinism, housing, interview, lower east side, manhattan, public housing, towers in the park, urban sociology, writers