How Many Row Houses Are There in New York City?
In the latest installment of our Typecast series, Neil Freeman counts and maps New York's row houses — all 217,000 of them.
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Typecast: The Row House
What we can learn from New York's humble row house, a form at once dominant and overlooked.
Urban Omnibus Block Party 2015 | July 23
The 5th annual Urban Omnibus Block Party, a benefit to celebrate and support Urban Omnibus' work defining and enriching the culture of citymaking.
On Housing
To mark the fifth anniversary of the launch of Urban Omnibus, we look at themes that have emerged in our content over time and think about what those threads reveal about the needs, desires, and priorities of the city today. In New York, we are fortunate to have an…
On Urban Observation
To mark the fifth anniversary of the launch of Urban Omnibus, we look at themes that have emerged in our content over time and think about what those threads reveal about the needs, desires, and priorities of the city today. If there were a single quality that all Omnibus…
Roundup — Re-Owning Payphones, Building Hudson Yards, Transforming the Library, Planning the Post-Sandy City plus Art, Theater, and Energy Events To Do
Coney Island Pay Phones | photo by Flickr user pauldc RE-OWN THE PAYPHONE On Monday, in an attempt to modernize the city’s payphone infrastructure, Mayor Bloomberg, Rahul N. Merchant, Commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, and Rachel Haot, Chief Digital Officer, launched a new…
The Omnibus Roundup — Wayfinding, Green Cities, Safety Zones, Water and Phytoremediation
WALK THIS WAY This week, the New York City Department of Transportation released a request for proposals to develop a comprehensive pedestrian “wayfinding system” in four districts: ...
The Omnibus Roundup – Awards, Apps, Floods and Stuff To Do
It's awards season... and while the worlds of design and urbanism may not be able to claim anything as glamorous as the Oscars or the Grammys, the Municipal Art Society manages to bring a mix of style and substance to a range of awards in the urban realm. One of these is the...
The Omnibus Roundup – Bragdon, Pakistan, urban interventions and Centers of the USA
Last week Mayor Bloomberg appointed David Bragdon, former president of the Oregon Metro Council — an elected regional planning agency — and a rumored mayoral candidate in Portland, to head up the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, which is…
Elastic City
Neil Freeman and Todd Shalom discuss walking through the city as a medium of art, poetics and urban awareness.
The Omnibus Roundup – data vis., Concourse, solar trash compactors, archiCULTURE
First up, some news and commentary: the Gowanus rezoning is on hold; the shovel-ready tunnel link that will double the number of Penn Station’s Jersey commuters proves once again that much stimulus thinking is short-sighted; and Omnibus fan…
The Brooklyn Typology Project
Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman reflects on ways web-based art practice, urban planning data and tireless neighborhood exploration can inform each other, using his own work as a case study.