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Citi Bike comes to Clinton Hill | Image by Doug Gordon via Brooklyn Spoke
Roundup — Bike Infrastructure Blooming, Change the Course, Commercial Rooftop Greenhouses, Cars and Streets, Cicadas, and Tunnel Stories
by Urban Omnibus • April 12th, 2013
BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE BLOOMING The spring weather has brought with it the long-awaited roll out of NYC’s new bike share, Citi Bike....
Portfolio: Five Borough Farm
by Rob Stephenson • July 31st, 2012
In 1917, the Mayor’s Committee on Food Gardens issued a report documenting the creation of nearly 12,000 gardens and 1,120...
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Gardener on the Roof: Examining Urban Farming
by Irmak Turan • March 30th, 2012
How do we measure and communicate the value of urban agriculture? That was the underlying question throughout “Gardener on the...
The Omnibus Roundup – Berlin Confronts Confronting Comfort, a Formula for Equitable Transportation, .nyc, East River Esplanade and Gardener on the Roof
by Urban Omnibus • March 23rd, 2012
BMW GUGGENHEIM LAB TRIP TO WITHDRAW FROM PLANNED BERLIN SITE If the BMW Guggenheim Lab is an experimental exploration of the multiple meanings and possibilities of public space worldwide, one of the experiment's perceived follow-on effects has come to eclipse all others: gentrification. The experiment's control factor is a temporary venue designed by Atelier...
In line with previous design strategies on the High Line, designers propose coating the existent steel beams with rubber to create a designated children's play space.
The Omnibus Roundup – High Line Designs, Quinn on Design, Concert Venue Design, When the Future Was 1950, and How Women Shape Our World
by Urban Omnibus • March 16th, 2012
HIGH LINE PHASE THREE Renderings of the initial designs for the third and final section of the High Line were...
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The Omnibus Roundup – Soldiers of Cleanliness, Tactical Urbanism, Pahlka at TED, Farm Video Fellow, East Asia’s Urban Factories and Bronx Moderne in the Park
by Urban Omnibus • March 9th, 2012
THE CLEANING OF A GREAT CITY In the late 19th century, a time when New York City’s streets were coated...
Seeing Green: Urban Agriculture as Green Infrastructure
by Urban Omnibus • February 1st, 2012
Tyler Caruso and Erik Facteau explain their scientific study of the value of urban farms, an effort to produce hard data that can challenge nay-sayers and inform policies and regulations that support agriculture in the city.
Urban Umbrella design by Young Hwan Choi, with Andrés Cortés, AIA, and Sarrah Khan, PE, of Agencie Group.
The Omnibus Roundup — Urban Umbrellas, Parallel Networks, Campus Holdings, Food Policy and Pop-Up Farms
by Urban Omnibus • August 5th, 2011
URBAN UMBRELLA Two years ago, the NYC Department of Buildings and AIA New York sponsored a design competition to develop an...
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The Omnibus Roundup — Tech Capital, Friendly Fourth Ave, Greenpoint Greenhouse, End of Amtrak, and NYC’s Bike War
by Urban Omnibus • June 24th, 2011
THE NEXT TECH CAPITAL: NYC This past March, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) solicited a request for expressions of interest (RFEI) to global research institutions for ideas to establish a future “applied science and engineering research campus” somewhere in New York City. NYCEDC received 18 proposals from top schools that included...
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The Omnibus Roundup – Getting Transpo Policy Right, PlaNYC’s Missing Piece, Making NYC Active, Inflatables, Events and To Dos
by Urban Omnibus • May 27th, 2011
GETTING TRANSPORTATION POLICY RIGHT In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, the Brookings Institution's Robert Puentes calls for an overhaul to the way our country spends its transportation dollars. Moving away from the transportation infrastructure improvements that have built enough new highway lane miles since 2000 to circle the world four times, Puentes instead advocates for a necessary alignment between transportation and the new economy with private and public sectors joining forces to cut carbon emissions and increase connectivity. Puentes spells out a series of...
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