Forbes map of "Where Americans Are Living Well"







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Trippy Grand Concourse Re-Visions
http://curbed.com/archives/2009/08/12/trippy_visions_for_remaking_the_bronxs_grand_concourse.php
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10_August_09_exhibition

Postcards from the Future of New York City
in Buell Hall. August 10 to August 16


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05_August_09_competitions
Call for submission
In celebration of Park(ing) Day 2009, Transportation Alternatives (T.A.) is hosting a new park(ing) spot competition. We're bringing Park(ing) Day out of the box by challenging creative types to design a portable and affordable pre-fabricated POP.Park that people can use to reclaim public space each and everyday of the year.

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05_August_09_project


Tree Museum
100 trees give voice to 100 perspectives featured in the Grand Concourse's TREE MUSEUM. Irish artist Katie Holten created this public art project to celebrate the communities and ecosystems along this 100 year-old boulevard. Visitors can listen in on local stories and the intimate lives of trees offered by current and former residents: from beekeepers to rappers, historians to gardeners, school kids to scientists. Visitors can start their visit to the TREE MUSEUM at any point along the Grand Concourse. Pick up a copy of the Visitors Guide at the Bronx Museum, Wave Hill or selected venues along the Grand Concourse. Look for the sidewalk markers identifying trees with stories.


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28_July_09_competitions

What to do with your final design proposal after final review?
here are a few competitions that are asking similar questions as our studio brief.
WPA 2.0 is sponsored by citylab at UCLA and has a student edition of its current
competition imagining a new generation of government projects. Registration for students closes October 16th.
The Advanced Architecture Contest titled the "self-sufficient city" is asking, among other questions,
if improvisation can be more self-sufficient than planning? Registration deadline is September 28th.
Urban Omnibus is an online project of the Architectural League that creates a new kind of conversation
about design and New York City. With a goal to increase understanding of the city, the Architectural League has
and encouraged ideas that can lead to a more inclusive, more sustainable, and more beautiful city that could be.
Ideas for content pieces are welcome at all times.
The AIA and ACSA extended the call for examples of faculty and student projects that would be of interest to
local AIA chapters working to influence the effective use of stimulus funding. A description of the
requirements to submit can be found here
the deadline is now September 1st.
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http://curbed.com/archives/2009/07/21/architectural_craziness_redux_meet_manhattan_airport.php
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27_July_09_lectures

Next Monday, July 27, at 7pm Matthew Thomas will talk about the "The Shipping Pallet House" at the
Metropolitan Exchange in Brooklyn. The address is 33 Flatbush Avenue (Subway: 2,3 to Nevins Street)

The following Monday, August 3rd, at noon, Patrick Clay and Richard Moss will talk about their work in
Santiago Calatrava's office on the World Trade Center Path Station.
(This lecture will be in Ware Lounge on the 6th floor)
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23_July_09_website


Co2 Emissions, Birth and Death Mapping...

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20_July_09



Forget the Trash bag, Bring a Towel
New York Times
The idea, said David Belt, a real estate developer and the president of Macro-Sea, the
company behind the pools, was not to create an exclusive party destination but to
experiment with underused space and materials, repurposing them with urban
renewal in mind.


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19_July_09


Check out this new Documentary of Samuel Mockbee & the Rural Studio
coming to a theatre near you this summer.

http://www.snakebitfilm.com/

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18_July_09
Stitching Bushwick


Capital B's efforts at mapping the community of Bushwick...
check out the process here
and the other interesting projects on the site

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16_July_09



The Cheonggyecheon, Once a Highway, Now a Haven
Published: July 16, 2009

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10_July_09_Lecture

Sidney Blank, Communication Designer of Supermetric will be giving a presentation today on "Designing for Interaction" in Ware Lounge at 1pm.
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09 - 19_July_09_Event
Giglio Festival // Williamsburg, Brooklyn
For over 100 years, Italian Catholics in Williamsburg have commemorated the Southern Italian Saint Paulinus of Nola by building tall towers and 'dancing' them through the streets of Brooklyn. See public space transformed in an amazing display of social infrastructure!

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08_July_09_Article
A Country of Cities by Vishaan Chakrabarti, Executive Vice President of the Related Companies
an article in Urban Omnibus about where stimulus funds are being spent and not spent.


New York Times:
Cities Lose out on Road Funds from Federal Stimulus





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06_July_09_Urban Design Symposium



UD Symposium: "Infrastructure (re)Considered"
Monday evening from 6-8pm, Wood Auditorium.

Panel includes:
Trent Lethco from ARUP, an expert in innovative transportation solutions
Steve Baumgartner from Buro Happold, renown for sustainable infrastructure
Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi from the Bronx River Project.

Earl Jackson will moderate what should be a very interesting discussion that broadly explores the idea of infrastructure in NYC.


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02_July_09_System


The City of Copenhagen recently launched a public bicycle counter [copenhagenize.com], completely equipped with an air pump for the convenience of cyclists. The urban display counts the daily number of cyclists that use the new Green Path that slices diagonally across the Copenhagen and Frederiksberg pathway system. There is a 'sensor line' in the asphalt on the bike lane a few metres in front of the counter which registers the cyclists, probably via a motion sensor. The idea is to encourage more people to ride by showing how many are using it. The numeric displays show the total so far today and this year. On the barometer-styled display, the left side will show last years' total. The #500,000s cyclist passing by will get a fancy new bike.


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29_June_09_Exhibit

For those who of you standing in front of closed doors yesterday, here is a description of
the 8 projects featured in the exhibit "The Future Beneath Us"

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26_June_09_Books


There are a few books that I always return to that explained to me what New York is about and why this city never stops to teach us lessons in urbanism. There are many more that you will find yourself or already have.
I start with the smallest: "Here is New York" by E.B. White. Just after 9/11, someone opened a little gallery in Soho, where everyone could bring their pictures of the day itself or events that followed. All the pictures were scanned, printed and displayed in the gallery and prints were sold for some admirable cause. The gallery needed volunteers for printing and scanning. Finally! something that I was capable of helping out. Most other volunteer jobs required training as a doctor, nurse, construction worker. So scanning and printing I finally felt, I could be useful too. This little book sat in the shelf behind the scanner and because my job didn't really require much attention, I had the time to read it, while I was scanning and saving tif files. Written in 1949, it is a remarkable essay about what it feels like to live in New York.
My second favorite in this shelf is "Delirious New York" by Rem Koolhaas. It has served me as a travel guide, when I first visited New York in 1990s and has helped my understanding of the city ever since. (If I could only figure out what 'Lobotomy' is). Carol Willis' "Form Follows Finance" is instrumental in understanding the tight relationship between regulation and market forces that has driven what is being built in New York ever since the first Zoning Resolution in 1916. Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of that, but spent many hours in the dusty basement of 22 Reade St looking at old copies of zoning maps. If you ever get the opportunity to work for City Planning, don't miss your chance to visit this forgotten library -a confirmation of everything we imagine government burocracy to be like. Instead, I now only use the online version of the zoning resolution or the Zoning Handbook that was published by the Department in 2005. It has had phenomenal success, especially since the Department has been in this rezoning frenzy, it allow everyone and their neighbor to understand the convoluted zoning language a little better. "sky exposure plane", "permitted obstruction", "commercial overlay" or "height factor" have since entered the vocabulary of the average New Yorker.
Robert Stern's "New York 1960", and Robert Caro's Biography of Robert Moses are both giants, an i have to admit, I never read them from front to back, but they are incredible references for understanding the New York of the 1950s and 60s, the massive highway infrastructure and slum clearance. "The history of Housing in New York City" by Richard Plunz also helped this understanding. Without this knowledge "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs would be meaningless.
I will end with "Manahatta" by Eric Sanderson, the latest edition to books about the history of New York. And while published only recently (and not on my shelf yet) it describes the most distant past of Manhattan, the time, when all of this was wilderness in its true natural sense. We may forget this sometimes, but this beautifully researched and illustrated book is hereto remind us.

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25_June_09_Interview


A Walk with Bob Yaro
Regional Plan Association President Bob Yaro reflects on the ongoing transformation of Midtown West, focusing on three pivotal sites: Penn Station, Hudson Yards, and the Javits Center.

Since 1922, the Regional Planning Association has promoted plans, policies and investments needed to improve the quality of life and competitiveness of the New York metropolitan region, America’s largest urban area. As president of RPA, Robert D. Yaro advocates for coordinated regional planning across municipal and state boundaries that integrates community design, open space, transportation, housing, and economic and workforce development.



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21 June_09_Article

The NY Times maps foreclosures in 2008 and finds that the highest rates of foreclusres occur in minority neighborhoods.

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19 June_09_Article

cienm2//100m2 architecture have won first prize for their 'take smoke makes water'
project as part of the reinvent cities competition. young architects, engineers
and landscape designers were given the opportunity to develop projects with 5 proposed
topics; mobility, resources, wastes, communication and flood management systems
for the competition.



more images of this proposal can be found here


Reality Bites



"The scientists at Emotiv have done the impossible: created a brain-wave-reading headset that lets you conjure
entire worlds using nothing but your mind -- a breakthrough that could be worth billions. Now comes the hard part. ", Inc.


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17 June_09_Article



Queens Plaza: Infrastructure Reframed
Sandro Marpillero, Linda Pollak and Margie Ruddick share perspectives on their transformation of Queens Plaza,
recasting the relationship between ecology, art and infrastructure.

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16 June_09_Article

"We need to rethink the city. To look further and deeper. To do everything possible to make
our cities better to live in, more attractive, more sustainable, more human. That is the
spirit of the consultation that I wished to launch by calling on ten great architects and
urban designers, some of the finest of our age.
It was time to begin a major effort of reflection, time to revitalise our thinking about the
cities, so that our modern landscapes should no longer be a simple residue of human
activity, but the considered product of policies agreed by all, responsive to all."
NICOLAS SARKOZY

see a descriptions of all the projects designed for a post-kyoto Paris in the download section as a pdf.

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14 June_09_Article



As Evan mentioned in class Friday...also find it online here...
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12 June 09 _Event

CITY OF DREAMS MINI GOLF COURSE

Last summer, FIGMENT worked with the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation and Black Rock Arts Foundation to create a fully functional 9-hole mini golf course on Governors Island. The course combined recreational functionality with a unique participatory art project designed and built by local artists. The course was a huge success, in constant use throughout the entire season.

This year, FIGMENT will expand the course to 18 holes. The designs are visually stunning and wildly innovative, and designed to be fun – not frustrating – for players of all ages. The course will be free and open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays while the island is open, from the end of May to early October.


theyrule.net
They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.
The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.

MoMa Exhibition:
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape



In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the architectural avant-garde celebrated autonomy from nature, and architects devised utopian schemes for creating urban realms ex novo, with little consideration for their surroundings. More recently, however, the challenges of a threatened environment and rapidly expanding cities have fostered a revised understanding of landscape. Harmony between the spatial, social, and environmental aspects of human life has become a priority in political thought, and this has had profound reverberations in both architecture and landscape design. "Landscape"—no longer understood merely as nature untouched—now encompasses complex interventions by architects and landscape architects in urban and rural surroundings. In Situ: Architecture and Landscape draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes toward landscape over the last hundred years.


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11 June 09 _Article

Taxi 07 // Roads Forward

http://www.designtrust.org/projects/project_06taxi07.html



Reinventing America's Cities - The Time is Now

(Page 3 discussing the Bronx)


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7 June 09 _Article


Mapping a Better World
Jun 4th 2009
From The Economist print edition

FOR INSPIRATION ONLY! _Links

some resources online for visualizing information
Worldmapper
Information Aesthetics -a great variety of projects that visualize all kinds of information (see image above of NYC subway ridership)
Socrata provides data sets from various US ghovernment agencies.
Strange Maps (well, yes, just strange maps)
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5 June 09 _ Events, downloads and room change

Note: Room change: Todays pin-up will be in Ware Lounge on the 6th floor of Avery Hall. Please have models and prints ready for review at 2 pm.

Exhibition/Download


Safari 7 pod casts:

Safari 7 podcasts reimagine train cars as eco-urban classrooms, inviting travelers to act as park rangers in their city. Safari 7's goal is to highlight the complexity, biodiversity, conflicts, and potentials of our urban ecosystems. Safari 7 hopes to engage the broadest range of New Yorkers in active research and exploration of their own environment. Each commuter becomes a citizen scientist in our shared urban zoo.


Events:



COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURES
Center for Architecture: Workshop (RSVP required)
Wed 06.24.2009 - Response and Public Discussion When: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Where: At The Center
How does infrastructure build trust? How does trust build infrastructure? DesignProblem: Your home is now open to strangers. Design it... Workshop 2: Community infrastructures is one of three workshops that will pose design problems to select architects, graphic designers, planners, and community leaders. Their visual responses will be included in an evolving exhibition:The GlobalPolis:Interactive Infrastructures, which is on view at the Center for Architecture from May 15th through August 29th.
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EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURES
Center for Architecture: Workshop (RSVP required)
Response and Panel Discussion When: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 Where: At The Center
How do we organize information? How does information organize us? DesignProblem: The Panopticon was the 18th Century what the _______is today. Workshop 3: Community infrastructures is the last of three workshops that will pose design problems to select architects, graphic designers, planners, and community leaders. Their visual responses will be included in an evolving exhibition:The GlobalPolis:Interactive Infrastructures, which is on view at the Center for Architecture from May 15th through August 29th.
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4 June 09 _ Events
After ten years of advocacy, planning, and construction, the High Line is opening. Section 1 of the High Line (Gansevoort Street to 20th Street) will open Tuesday, June 9, offering visitors the chance to preview the park, which is still under construction.

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3 June 09 _ Events

// SOUNDWALK - A - THON // This Sunday _ June 7 _ Click link for details...
http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/05/11/issue-project-room-soundwalk-a-thon/

The new GSAPP Summer Lecture Series Poster is attached here

Check out these organizations offering events that question the urban environment:
Creative Time: http://www.creativetime.org/index.php
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: http://www.lmcc.net/
Rooftop Films: http://www.rooftopfilms.com/
PS 1: http://ps1.org/

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....see Bronx page for more info

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2 June 09 _ AVERY LIBRARY TOUR SCHEDULE

Tuesday, 2 June // 2:00-3:00pm
Joshua
Jenny
Aren
Cyntia
Liat
Sasan
Eunryung
Brad
Han
Milton
Kurt

Tuesday, 2 June // 3:00-4:00pm
Jamie
Candice
Seyoon
Pedro
Henry
Sunghwan
Qiong
Seohong
Darys
Pei Lei
Amar

Wednesday, 3 June // 12:00-1:00pm
Sylvia
Come
Manas
Monica
Hoi Ka Karin
Poonam
Maria

Wednesday, 3 June // 1:00-2:00pm
Travis
Min-Hui
Yen-I
Po-Yi
Hyo Youn
Utkalika
Chris

Thursday, 4 June // 2:00-3:00pm
Chirag
Tian
Nidhi
Mitu
Paula
Dalal
Maria Mavri
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1 June 09 _ Supply Resources

Check out a growing list of stores here to find model/drawing supplies, bookstores and copy centers.

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1 June 09 _ Site Teams

NOTE:
1. No lunch time lecture this Wednesday, June 3

2. Check wiki (soon) for library tour times – list has changed.

3. We are not meeting for studio on Wednesday; you have school orientation, as noted on UD Workshop schedule.

4. Your Urban Objects are due on Friday, meet in Buell Hall, “Buell East Gallery.” Please have prints up and models displayed in site groupings by 2 pm.

Site Teams:

Broadway Triangle, Brooklyn:
Dalal Musaed Al Sayer
Paula Alejandra Asturias
Milton Garavito
Jenny E Joe
Henry Odaliz Martes
Han Meng
Lei Pei
Miguel O Porras
Robert Blair White
Queens West, Queens:
Darys Aliza Avila
HyoYoun Kwon
Chris Ashley LeTourneau
Jamie Lynn Lookabaugh
Sylvia Ng
Chirag M Patel
Amar Pradip Shah
Manas Girdhari Vanwari
Qiong Wu
Sung hwan Yoon
Clinton, Manhattan:
Travis J. M. Bunt
Min-Hui Chuang
Alonso de Garay
Liat Eisen
Gabriel Fuentes
Tian Jiang
Po-Yi Lee
Seo-Hong Min
Utkalika Panda
Monica Pinjani
Grand Concourse, Bronx:
Manuel Alejandro Barrios
Nidhi Hitesh Bhatnagar
Pedro Jose Borges
Kurt Vogley Franz
Yen-I Han
Bradley David Kingsley
Eunryung Lee
Maria Louca
Mitu Mathur
Sasan Norouzi
North Shore, Staten Island:
Aren Bogossian
Seyoon Kim
Hoi Ka Karin Lam
Poonam Ramawater Mandhania
Come Serge Emile Menage
Candice A. Naim
Cyntia Navarro
Jacek Rafel Sieniawski
Joshua Elijah Turner

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29 May 09 _ Welcome

This is the GSAPP MS in Architecture and Urban Design summer design studio wiki.

Postings include course program, assignments, schedule and sites of study.

Wiki will be updated often to include relevant articles and local events, student research and documentation as well as discussions within the field of architecture and urban design.
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25 May 09 _ Article


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/arts/design/26clos.html?_r=2&th&emc=th
Lose the Traffic. Keep That Times Square Grit.
Published: May 25, 2009
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Exhibit

The Future Beneath Us - 8 Great Projects Under New York

The vast underground network of tunnels in New York City is the focus of an historic exhibition allowing visitors into a world unknown and featuring the much-discussed, but little understood mega-projects bringing the City’s transportation infrastructure into the 21st Century. The exhibition, titled The Future Beneath Us: 8 Great Projects Under New York, is the result of a unique collaboration between The New York Public Library, one of the pre-eminent libraries of the world, and the New York Transit Museum, custodian of the most extensive collection of urban transportation materials in the United States. The exhibit will be shown in two locations in Midtown Manhattan: The Science, Industry and Business Library’s Healy Hall, at 188 Madison Avenue, and the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store at Grand Central Terminal. The exhibit will be on view from February 17, 2009 through July 5, 2009. Admission is free.

http://www.transitmuseumeducation.org/fbu/

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Exhibit

The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures

What is infrastructure? For much of the twentieth century, the answer to this question was guided by the ideology of functionalist urbanism, a school of thought that said that all healthy cities served four major needs – work, housing, recreation, and transportation. Today, we no longer take this view for granted, for it is a perspective that makes no provisions for community, identity, or history. At the same time, we still lack an alternative model for visualizing the city that can deal adequately with the public health and quality-of-life issues that the early functionalists sought to address. Our capacity to balance urban development with the demands of ecological imperatives and social needs has only worsened in recent decades, and this exhibition asks whether the trend can be reversed.

http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=exhibitions&expid=80

Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
P: 212.683.0023
info@aiany.org