At a time of social unrest, David Briggs thinks about how designers and architects work, and how their method can engage matters of civil justice.
Read More
Starting a successful community garden requires inspiration, innovation, and lots of hard work. Heather McKinstry, co-founder of Sprout Farms in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, shares a firsthand account.
Read More
In “The City in History,” Lewis Mumford described how the first great cities of Athens and Rome succumbed to the disparity of a city’s subcultures and accumulation of wealth for the privileged classes.
Read More
As I start to write this, I am sitting in my darkened office on lower Broadway two days after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on our city. There is no power in Lower Manhattan, the subways are not running, and my staff is scrambling to take a computer offsite.
Read More
A few weeks ago, Sam Schwartz, traffic guru and the former New York City Traffic Commissioner, presented his Equitable Transportation Formula [ETF] at the monthly Institute of Urban Design breakfast club.
Read More