The city’s construction projects don’t just rise skyward, they also dig downward, displacing vast amounts of material whose movement in and out of the city largely goes unseen. Lynnette Widder traces the path.
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The city’s construction projects don’t just rise skyward, they also dig downward, displacing vast amounts of material whose movement in and out of the city largely goes unseen. Lynnette Widder traces the path.
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As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. @oschwo.bsky.social asks what it will take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant.
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As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. @oschwo.bsky.social asks what it will take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant.
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To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. In conversation, Celina Su and @thinaar.bsky.social ask: How can we build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?
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To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. In conversation, Celina Su and @thinaar.bsky.social ask: How can we build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?
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Who built the Cross Bronx? In Ray Bromley’s history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.
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Who built the Cross Bronx? In Ray Bromley’s history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.
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Speculative proposals by architect Karolina Czeczek ask, What if New York City’s public pools could make a splash all year long? Photos by Anna Morgowicz.
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Speculative proposals by architect Karolina Czeczek ask, What if New York City’s public pools could make a splash all year long? Photos by Anna Morgowicz.
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As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, @kecaritter.bsky.social surveys how outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.
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As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, @kecaritter.bsky.social surveys how outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.
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Learn about the Cross Bronx, its history, and its impact on local communities through history:
Learn about the Cross Bronx, its history, and its impact on local communities through history:
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Ellie Botoman, Ekemini Ekpo, Daphne Lundi, Anoushka Mariwala, Philip Poon, and Shirt ask a shared question: How and where do we continue to belong to this place?
📸 Samuel Lahoz
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Ellie Botoman, Ekemini Ekpo, Daphne Lundi, Anoushka Mariwala, Philip Poon, and Shirt ask a shared question: How and where do we continue to belong to this place?
📸 Samuel Lahoz
The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. Mariana Mogilevich tells the story of the building, which closely tracks larger struggles to secure a home in the city.
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The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. Mariana Mogilevich tells the story of the building, which closely tracks larger struggles to secure a home in the city.
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No visual records remained of a thriving, majority Black village cleared to make Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.
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No visual records remained of a thriving, majority Black village cleared to make Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.
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In the weekly Jericho Walk, Ravi Ragbir and the New Sanctuary Coalition (@newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social) confront a site of darkness and fear for many immigrants, and make sure that friends are not alone in their journey.
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In the weekly Jericho Walk, Ravi Ragbir and the New Sanctuary Coalition (@newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social) confront a site of darkness and fear for many immigrants, and make sure that friends are not alone in their journey.
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Jefferson Mao for @urbanomnibus.bsky.social: urbanomnibus.net/2025/05/neit...
Jefferson Mao for @urbanomnibus.bsky.social: urbanomnibus.net/2025/05/neit...
New release!
Globally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, Jefferson Mao asks, is it more unmoored than ever?
New release!
Globally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, Jefferson Mao asks, is it more unmoored than ever?
New release! “Networked Nursery”
Preserving and propagating the city’s autochthonous flora, Staten Island’s Greenbelt Native Plant Center, Morgan Mueller argues, is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
New release! “Networked Nursery”
Preserving and propagating the city’s autochthonous flora, Staten Island’s Greenbelt Native Plant Center, Morgan Mueller argues, is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
New release! “Sign Off”
Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm. Photographer Alexa Hoyer and writer Aaron Kang Smithson track them across the boroughs and the last century.
New release! “Sign Off”
Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm. Photographer Alexa Hoyer and writer Aaron Kang Smithson track them across the boroughs and the last century.
Send us a one-paragraph pitch or proposal along with a little information about you as an author and an example of past work. Email any questions and your pitches to [email protected]. Deadline: Monday, May 19.
Send us a one-paragraph pitch or proposal along with a little information about you as an author and an example of past work. Email any questions and your pitches to [email protected]. Deadline: Monday, May 19.
New release! “Try a Little Tenderness”
A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support. Daphne Lundi and Louise Yeung of Romantic Urbanism interview Schuyler deVos and Ezekiel Maben about their Department of Tenderness.
New release! “Try a Little Tenderness”
A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support. Daphne Lundi and Louise Yeung of Romantic Urbanism interview Schuyler deVos and Ezekiel Maben about their Department of Tenderness.
New release! “A Tentative Rollout”
Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility. Urban planner Thandi Nyambose tracks their ups and downs.
📸 Abigail Montes
New release! “A Tentative Rollout”
Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility. Urban planner Thandi Nyambose tracks their ups and downs.
📸 Abigail Montes
New release! “This Is a Rehearsal”
With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, the playwright Aaron Landsman (@thinaar.bsky.social) considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?
New release! “This Is a Rehearsal”
With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, the playwright Aaron Landsman (@thinaar.bsky.social) considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?
Urban Omnibus is an online publication of The Architectural League of New York, dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city.
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Urban Omnibus is an online publication of The Architectural League of New York, dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city.
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New feature release! “Home Valuation”
@city.bsky.social and @jonathantarleton.bsky.social discuss new stories from Mitchell-Lama co-ops and the LA Tenants Union narrate the housing crisis as a struggle for control, and over the true meaning of a home.
New feature release! “Home Valuation”
@city.bsky.social and @jonathantarleton.bsky.social discuss new stories from Mitchell-Lama co-ops and the LA Tenants Union narrate the housing crisis as a struggle for control, and over the true meaning of a home.
New feature release! “The Power Issue”
Noah Fischer’s newspaper from the future imagines how New Yorkers defeat fascism, defend public power, electrify everything, and protect each other from flooding.
New feature release! “The Power Issue”
Noah Fischer’s newspaper from the future imagines how New Yorkers defeat fascism, defend public power, electrify everything, and protect each other from flooding.
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