Urban Omnibus



Interboro Partners shares a selection of their work on “Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities,” challenging us to design and advocate for generational diversity.
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Seema Agnani’s work with South Asian immigrants on housing needs charts a course for legalizing basement apartments to create affordable housing.
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Sociologist Dalton Conley takes us on a walk through the public housing complexes where he grew up, reflecting on the economics of housing policy and the limits of design.
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Sarah Rich and Nicola Twilley discuss the impact of food systems on the physical city in advance of Foodprint NYC, an event at Studio-X.
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Gerald Frug contrasts the structures and powers of city government in London and New York in order to ask a crucial urban question: what are our cities empowered to do?
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Architect Peter Gluck and EHS co-founder Ivan Hageman talk about why school design matters.
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F. Kaid Benfield, Director of the NRDC's Smart Growth Program, wrote a thoughtful response to Vanessa Keith's Urban Omnibus feature Clip-on Architecture, in which he also recounts a recent tour of the green roof at ASLA's DC office. -Varick Shute, Program Manager, Urban Omnibus…
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Vishaan Chakrabarti responds to Obama’s State of the Union Address and considers how heightened investment in the Infrastructure of Tomorrow could be our silver bullet.
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Nancy Levinson reviews some provocative positions on infrastructure and challenges designers to recast the relationship between individual initiative and political community.
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A collaboration to reimagine access to and use of this complex waterfront site.
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