Affordable and Attainable: A Conversation on Housing with Lindsay Haddix
The Chief of Staff for the Office of Development at HPD explains the agency's strategies for funding, incentivizing, developing, and preserving affordable housing in New York City.
Another City is Possible: Alternatives to the Smart City | November 6
Writer and urbanist Adam Greenfield will present material from his new pamphlet "Against the smart city," the first part of his upcoming book The City is Here for You to Use.
Local Connections: The Red Hook WiFi Project
Tony Schloss and Alyx Baldwin discuss how their initiative leverages locally controlled infrastructure, community-based applications, and youth capacity building to provide a platform for local communication and Internet access in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Climate Change in the American Mind | October 2
The first live program of the League's new initiative The Five Thousand Pound Life will take place on Wednesday, October 2nd, at 7pm.
Video: A Country of Cities
From 2009-2011, Vishaan Chakrabarti wrote a series of opinion pieces here on Urban Omnibus arguing that urban density can be the answer to many of the nation's most pressing contemporary issues. He has since expanded...
The Underlying Structure: A Conversation on Law with Gerald Frug
Legal scholar Gerald Frug appeals to designers, planners, and activists to understand better the legal structures that enable and constrain urban change.
The Wooden House Project: A Walk Through South Slope
Elizabeth Finkelstein takes us on a tour of some of the oldest houses in Brooklyn and shares the history often buried beneath layers of vinyl siding.