The Omnibus Roundup - edible lawns, anarchical traffic lights, Union Sq. redesigned and "human sculptures" on Wall Street

Project: Interaction

Interaction designers Carmen Dukes and Katie Koch create a curriculum for high school students in which the city itself is the classroom.

The Omnibus Roundup – Sukkah City, park(ing) day, artificial reef, census, shipping containers

This weekend, the design competition Sukkah City will bring twelve modern-day sukkahs to Union Square for two days. The sukkah is a temporary structure constructed during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot, meant to commemorate the structures erected by Israelites during their exile from…

The Omnibus Roundup – National infrastructure bank, embracing decline, street struggles and traffic lights

Weeels

David Mahfouda and Alex Pasternack discuss a mobile app that could make NYC’s fleet of 13,000 taxis a more efficient, affordable, and social mode of transit.

The Omnibus Roundup – Hurricanes, vulnerable infrastructure, Situ Studio and Map Your Moves

Swoon: The City Created, Built, Broken and Rebuilt

In our fourth of a series of artist interviews, Swoon discusses how the urban environment informs her work, from Brooklyn streets to Venetian canals to post-earthquake Haiti.

The Omnibus Roundup – Skyscraper Showdown, gubernatorial platforms, In the Footprint, and The Good, the Bad, and the Empty

A "skyscraper showdown" is in headlines this week, making contentious building projects a recurring theme for the summer. This time we have 15 Penn Plaza vs. the Empire State Building. The City Council has approved plans for a 67-story tower to be built two blocks away from, and just 34 feet shorter than, the iconic Empire...

The Omnibus Roundup – Bragdon, Pakistan, urban interventions and Centers of the USA

The Omnibus Roundup – Virtual city planning, transportation woes, Hudson River piers on film