Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

A community forum dealing with the proposed Atlantic Yards arena and high-rise development project. The evening’s program will feature: A presentation by the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods on the project’s potential environmental impacts An update on the recently filed Federal eminent domain lawsuit, and other legal challenges An Albany and City Hall update from local […]

Second Avenue Subway Task Force meeting sponsored by Manhattan Community Board 8. Discussion: Residential real estate issues related to the proposed Second Avenue Subway. [Ed note: One of Spitzer’s transportation priorities.]

Activities which take place in "loose spaces" — which are found alongside the intended uses of planned public spaces like sidewalks and plazas — are largely ignored. Editors Karen Franck and Quentin Stevens introduce their book Loose Space: Diversity and Possibility in Urban Life (Routledge, 2006) and discuss how urban design might address those parts […]

Author of the recent biography, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary (Rutgers University Press, 2006), Alice Sparberg Alexiou engages a panel of experts in a discussion of urban economies in New York City based on Jacobs’ second book, The Economy of Cities.

Inspired by the popular environmental website www.worldchanging.com, Worldchanging (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006) offers a practical toolkit to building a better, more sustainable future. Highlighting elements of this toolkit, a panel of contributing authors discusses how each of us can incorporate these technologies and techniques into our lives for the benefit of the planet.

Rarely a day goes by that you can’t read about an environmental problem in the newspaper. The earth and its inhabitants are facing unique environmental challenges that necessitate bold new ideas and solutions.  Solving these challenges demands an understanding of environmental policy. Perhaps now more than ever before solving the world’s environmental problems requires a […]