Unconventional City Planners: A Series on non-traditional City Planners

Traditionally, our cities represent a great compromise. Our streets, buildings, and governance are an amalgamation of values, pushed forward by stakeholder groups. The city is the result of conflicting forces fighting for their preferred state.  Though the city can be the vision of a single individual. When an individual achieves a level of celebrity, city… Read more Unconventional City Planners: A Series on non-traditional City Planners

Will Winter Freeze Out NYC’s Open Streets Program?

Sun set on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn, on the last day of this year’s Park Slope Open Street program. In the waning light, children ran after bubbles in the street, vendors sold light up toys, dogs sniffed the ground, and restaurant goers, blankets across their laps, sipped beers with gloved hands. Organizers have opened the… Read more Will Winter Freeze Out NYC’s Open Streets Program?