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Green Infrastructure
Making Connections: Planning for Green Infrastructure in Two Bridges
Kerri Culhane explains how geographical, historical and architectural factors make the Two Bridges neighborhood uniquely suited to realize the environmental, economic and social benefits of green infrastructure.
The East River Blueway Plan
Adam Lubinsky discusses a range of urban planning strategies and design opportunities to help get New Yorkers into the waters of the East River.
Seeing Green: Urban Agriculture as Green Infrastructure
Tyler Caruso and Erik Facteau explain their scientific study of the value of urban farms, an effort to produce hard data that can challenge nay-sayers and inform policies and regulations that support agriculture in the city.
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman
"It is the ultimate virtue for architecture in an urban context to create or activate the public domain."
Recap | The High Line: Model for a City or Not?
A panel of four influential people gathered to discuss whether the High Line should be considered an exemplary or replicable model for future New York City Parks.
The Staten Island Bluebelt: Storm Sewers, Wetlands, Waterways
Dana Gumb explains how the City has engineered Staten Island's wetlands and waterways to enhance their natural ability to convey, store and filter stormwater.
Rising Currents – A Postscript
MoMA hosted a panel discussion to mark the end of the Rising Currents exhibition
Clip-on Architecture: Reforesting Cities
Vanessa Keith explores some simple yet radical ways to retrofit our urban building stock to address a chief cause of climate change: tropical deforestation.