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The Omnibus Roundup – climate change, bus lanes, outer boroughs on film and...
Image courtesy of Sustainable South Bronx via NPR With temperatures in the triple digits earlier this week, residents in major cities like New York, Washington and Philadelphia felt the heat more so...
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America 2050: What Will We Build?
The future of our country’s landscape — how and where we will accommodate demographic, economic and environmental changes in the coming decades — is a matter of concern for all Americans, regardless...
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The Omnibus Roundup — Tech Capital, Friendly Fourth Ave, Greenpoint...
Proposed Applied Science and Research Campus | Image via Roosevelt Islander THE NEXT TECH CAPITAL: NYC This past March, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) solicited a request...
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Recap: What is Foreclosed?
Currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art is an exhibition entitled Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream that explores “new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the...
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Roundup — Beaches Bounce Back, Stormproofing, Coworking, 5Pointz, and The...
Rockaway Beach | Image via Oscar Rohena BEACHES BOUNCE BACK Beach season is finally upon us, and the Department of Parks and Recreation has been hard at work restoring the city’s 14 miles of coastline...
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Growing Long Island’s Downtowns: The Regional Benefits of Better Parking Design
The Long Island Index is a project of the Rauch Foundation, a family foundation that invests in positive and transformative change in the communities of Long Island. For the past ten years, the Index...
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The 7th Annual Thanksgiving Roundup
On Staten Island, a flock of 90-some turkeys — the inspiration for reimagining the grounds of the South Beach Psychiatric Center as a Turkey National Park — is in limbo as an upstate sanctuary...
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How a Satellite Chinatown Is Changing the ‘Burbs
Ranch home in Montville, CT | Photo courtesy of Stephen Fan Montville, Connecticut, a sprawling township north of New London, is home to the state’s only Chinese-bilingual elementary school. The aisle...
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Field Trip: Gerritsen Beach and Marine Park, Brooklyn
On a pleasant weekday afternoon at the end of July, I hopped on my bike and headed to the far south east of Brooklyn. I found a proud, isolated (and proudly isolated) neighborhood and uniquely divided...
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Video: A Country of Cities
Vishaan Chakrabarti, A Country of Cities, abridged lecture video | Recorded June 17, 2013 | Running time: 14:57 From 2009-2011, Vishaan Chakrabarti wrote a series of opinion pieces here on Urban...
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Empire Drive-In: A Novel Perspective on Car Culture
Photo by Tod Seelie Empire Drive-In is a temporary outdoor cinema designed by artists Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark and built of junked cars slumped into concentric rows around a projection screen. Each...
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Planning for the Worst
New Harmony as imagined by Robert Owen and drawn by an English architect. | Via Wikimedia Commons Disaster is an opportunity — with the need to escape comes a potential fresh start. In the 17th...
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Battles for inclusion and exclusion in the life of the city more often end in stand-offs than in skirmishes. The post Public Space Arms Race appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
View ArticleDo You Remember How It Was?
Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project. The post Do You Remember How It Was? appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
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Questions of ownership, affordability, and political representation converge in current struggles over rent regulation. The post Country of Tenants appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
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To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source. The post Seeding Stability appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
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