Telling the Story of Cities
In the Unconventional City Planners series, Mackenna Caughron will explore three unconventional planners and their machinations of the city. This is part 1 of a 3 part series. Raised in Senegal and New Jersey. Investor in solar energy. Son of a professor/musician and a dancer. He reminisced on his upbringing, “I was that kid you… Read more Unconventional City Planners: Part 1 – Akon City
Seven months have passed since housing authorities across the country received nearly 70,000 vouchers to permanently house people experiencing homelessness. Today, less than 15% are currently in use. While a lack of public funding is often highlighted as a reason for America’s persisting homelessness crisis, the current utilization rate of these unprecedented vouchers reveals that… Read more The Promise and Pitfalls of Emergency Housing Vouchers
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
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?
by: Ben Listman Oonee Mini at Grand Central This October, Metro-North Railroad announced a pilot for secure bike parking at Grand Central with Oonee. Oonee is a Brooklyn-based company that implements and operates secure bike parking structures. Oonee has grown relevant in New York City because of the increasingly evident need for a secure bike… Read more The Path to Secure Bike Parking in NYC