Onward: New Ideas for Street Design
May 25, 2016
6:30 – 8:15 PM
Kohn Pedersen Fox
11 West 42nd Street
Join us May 25 for cocktails and conversation on the future street design in New York. (more…)
Onward: New Ideas for Street Design
Onward: New Ideas for Transportation
This spring, the Urban Design Forum invites you to rethink New York’s roads, rails, and runways – not to mention waterways, bikeways, walkways, and greenways!
Transit ridership continues to shatter records as more New Yorkers get around on buses and trains. While state and federal officials wrestle over spending for capital projects, city officials are turning to leaner solutions like bus rapid transit, bike share and ferry routes to move New Yorkers.
While major infrastructure projects slug along, new digital technologies are revolutionizing the way we move through the city. E-hail companies are enhancing ease and access across the five boroughs and weakening the once dominant yellow cab industry. Car-sharing companies are swaying more New Yorkers to ditch their private automobiles. Rapid delivery services are reducing trips to grocery stores and big box retailers. Autonomous cars and trucks are being tested on roads across America. And people are taking to the streets in greater numbers as the city updates its uses and neighborhoods.
What will these new habits and technologies mean for the shape of the city? Will ridesharing reduce the need for parking and unlock new opportunities for development? How will autonomous vehicles affect the design of our streets? Could our dense city become a bicycle boomtown? And will new transportation options pull support away from our historic transit network?
Help us craft a vision for the future of mobility in New York City. How would you build a more accessible, equitable, and sustainable city?
Deadline for entries: May 13, 2016 (more…)
Fellows’ Events
| MAY 3 | Aspect/Ratios: Women Shaping the Urban Habitat Jill Lerner moderates a panel of female architects, developers, and engineers who have shaped NYC’s built environment, at the Center for Architecture. | |
| MAY 6 | Cocktails & Conversation Suzanne Stephens joins Frank Harmon in conversation to discuss current architecture and design issues at the Center for Architecture. | |
| MAY 11 | Context and Change Deborah Berke delivers the 2016 Oberfield Lecture on adaptive reuse of historic structures at the Center for Architecture. | |
| MAY 12 | Defining and Delivering Equity at the Waterfront Eric Fang, Ken Greenberg, Toni Griffin, Michael Sorkin, and Madelyn Wils offers their visions for bringing jobs, education, transportation, and recreation to NYC’s waterfronts, at the Waterfront Alliance’s conference. | |
| MAY 19 – 21 | AIA Convention 2016 Rick Bell, Joe Brancato, David Burney, Phil Enquist, Tami Hausman, David Piscuskas, Michael Samuelian, and Marilyn Taylor are featured speakers at the AIA’s annual convention in Philadelphia. | |
| THROUGH MAY 22 | Global Citizen Moshe Safdie’s transnational career is celebrated at an exhibit on view at the BSA Space in Boston. | |
| THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4 | GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY Carol Willis’ exhibition explores the high rise garden city typology pioneered by Singapore-based firm WOHA, at the Skyscraper Museum. (more…) |