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Clockwise from top left, work by The Living; SurfaceDesign, Inc.; Ants of the Prairie; Rael San Fratello; Estudio Macías Peredo; SITU Studio; Williamson Chong Architects; and TALLER |MauricioRocha+GabrielaCarrillo| For the past thirty years, the Architectural League has annually selected eight individuals or firms from the US, Canada, and…
Gowanus Canal Sponge Park Master Plan, New York City | © dlandstudio dlandstudio, founded and led by Susannah Drake, is an architecture and landscape architecture firm that strives to integrate ecology, planning, engineering, and design to solve problems in urban environments and systems. Though dlandstudio…
A special edition of the Roundup looks at urban renewal area visions, eminent domain to stem foreclosures, reinventing the MTA, an emergency housing prototype, a rent freeze unfrozen, a new timeline for Atlantic Yards, Urban Giants, and Rockaway!
Chris Reed shares work from a Harvard GSD landscape architecture studio that considers how productive ecologies drive the development of urban form and uses Jamaica Bay as a case study for exploring the opportunities of richly fluid territories.
Daniel D'Oca shares student work that proposes creative ways to improve seniors' comfort, mobility, safety, and happiness to support aging in place.
LACK OF VISION 2020? Diving deep into the politics behind the "sixth borough," Tom Angotti takes Vision 2020 to task in a Gotham Gazette editorial questioning the bucolic wetland preservation and public recreation envisioned in the waterfront plan. "Behind the frothy rhetoric designed to garner public support, Vision...
After this morning's F train delays, the reopening of the Roosevelt Island tram will come as even more of a relief to the island's commuters. The iconic cherry-red tram will again grace Manhattan skies after a 9-month hiatus, during which it underwent $25 million...
When the walk ended, I felt dazed, as if I had been drugged. It took a few minutes to adjust to walking around without a techno beat or a robotic voice telling me what to do and, by extension, think. Despite this hangover, I found Remote New York to…
Over the weekend of May 16, Open Engagement 2014 (OE) brought artists, cultural organizers, community activists, and citizens from around the world to New York for over 150 sessions — forums, case studies, and strategy workshops — to “expand the dialogue around socially engaged art making.” Founded and directed by…
Today marks a milestone for us: five years ago, on January 7, 2009, Urban Omnibus went live.
In the second in a series of profiles of Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts, Mercedes Kraus looks at how a cultural community has flourished by leveraging its legacy of artistic production in the face of intensifying real estate pressure and outside influence and interest.
The Pastor of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral shares the history of the iconic Soho church and reflects on his work in ministry, social work and affordable housing in the context of a constantly changing city.
A preview of the paintings, photographs, illustrations, prints, tickets, experiences and more that you will see offered for auction at our February 28th Urban Omnibus BlockParty 2012.
NYC PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION GOING STRONG New York is among the top 15 metropolitan areas for transportation, according to an Infrastructurist article on a National Resources Defense Council study. Jersey City and New Haven also make it on the list, reflecting on the good performance of PATH and MetroNorth trains. Keep it up MTA! And it's a good thing we have public transport, because...
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...
