Announcing a juried competition for essays that reflect on the Manhattan street grid as paradigm, rubric or muse for urban life, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the plan that established Manhattan’s street grid. Deadline: February 1st, 2012 
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Urban Omnibus talks to five bloggers commissioned by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to investigate neighborhood change in Manhattan Chinatown, Sunset Park, and Flushing. |
For Open City, Peggy Lee has written about the food politics of the lunchtime rush and the Chinatown Soundscape Series, which investigates karaoke and gentrification, among other topics. Find out more about her approach to this process in the interview below. For an overview of the project, click …
For Open City, Cristiana Baik has written about Bush Terminal and Industry City, city nomenclature, and social justice organizing in Queens among other topics. Find out more about her approach to this process in the interview below. For an overview of the project, click here
For Open City, Jerome Chou has written about the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, Deli Gentrification and the proliferation of art galleries in the Lower East Side, among other topics. Find out more about his approach to this process in the interview below. For an overview of the project…
For Open City, Deanna Fei has written about Tai Chi in Kissena Park, the short stories of Ha Jin, and the Chinese New Year parade in Flushing, the neighborhood where she grew up. Find out more about her approach to this process in the interview below. For an overview of…
For Open City, Sahar Muradi has written about Afghan fare in Flushing, the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, and poetry, among other topics. Find out more about her approach to this process in the interview below. For an overview of the project, click here.
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Suketu Mehta reflects on immigration, density and neighborhood change while wandering the Queens streets where he lived as a teenager. |
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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. |
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Nancy Levinson reviews some provocative positions on infrastructure and challenges designers to recast the relationship between individual initiative and political community. |
