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Grid Talks: Other American Grids, Land Use and Growth, and Environmental Implications
Two exhibitions, and three panels celebrating and speculating on the Manhattan street grid.
Recap | Women Shaping Our World: Architecture, Gender and Space
Like the process of building a home, the practice of architecture is the product of the many pieces locking harmoniously into place; of course, women are integral to this harmony.
Recap | Building Blocks: Knowledge and Innovative Cities
What makes a city innovative? And in what ways does innovation need the city (or not)?
Recap | Megacities and Meta-Cities
How to teach a new generation of urban designers the tactics and strategies of a discipline that is still finding its feet?
Recap | What is Foreclosed?
An exhibition at MoMA explores new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis.
Recap | Party Photos! BlockParty 2012
Thanks to all of the Omnibus devotees who came out to share the love, our BlockParty last week.
Recap | Trash Tubes of the Future
Will trash tubes drive the conversation around the future of New York City garbage collection?
BlockParty 2012 Auction Preview
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.
Urban Omnibus BlockParty 2012 | February 28
A cocktail reception, art auction and benefactors' dinner to support Urban Omnibus. Tickets now on sale!
Recap | The Unfinished Grid Panel
Gregory Wessner, curator of The Unfinished Grid, moderated a panel discussion about the living legacy of the 1811 plan and new proposals imagining Manhattan’s infrastructural future.