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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.