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More Grid Talks: Other American Grids, Land Use and Growth, and Environmental Implications

With the news that the pair of exhibitions celebrating and speculating on the Manhattan street grid has been extended until July 15th comes the announcement of a new series of live programs at the exhibitions’ venue, the Museum of the … »

The Grid and its Guises

Another selection from the Unfinished Grid Essay Competition considers what two centuries of interpretation of Manhattan's street grid can tell us about ourselves. »

The Omnibus Roundup – Port Authority Smackdown, Highway Map, Valentine Heart, Public Policy Lab, Warm-Up, Foreclosed and Gridlock

This week in the roundup: gubernatorial criticism of the Port Authority, interstate infographics, an architectural Valentine, service design for government, an exhibit about planning, HWKN’s design for Warm-Up 2012, and as suggested stuff to do: … »

The Omnibus Roundup – Towers in the Park, Convention Centers in Queens, Tidal Turbines in the River, Presidential Omissions and Lots of Things To Do

First up, a reminder: The deadline for The Unfinished Grid essay competition, our call for writing on the Manhattan street grid as paradigm, rubric or muse for urban life, is just around the corner! Submit by 5pm on… »

Call for Essays: The Unfinished Grid

Attention Urban Omnibus readers! As part of our passionate commitment to seeding informed conversation about the physical form and social experience of New York City, we announce an essay competition in connection to the pair of exhibitions organized b... »

The Unfinished Grid: Panel Recap

In a deceptively modest-seeming exhibition hall on the first floor of the Museum of the City of New York is a show titled The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, a history of the 1811 plan for… »

Manhattan’s Master Plan: Why NYC Looks the Way it Does

The following was originally published on WNET’s MetroFocus.  New Yorkers take it for granted that we can say things like “meet me at 85th Street and Third Avenue” and know that regardless of whether someone has been to… »

Manhattan’s Master Plan: Why NYC Looks the Way it Does

New Yorkers take it for granted that we can say things like “meet me at 85th Street and Third Avenue” and know that regardless of whether someone has been to that intersection, they will easily be able to get there. It’s all thanks to Manhattan’s legen... »

The Unfinished Grid: Exhibition Now Open; Panel Discussion This Saturday

This week, two exhibitions opened at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) that celebrate the evolving legacy of Manhattan’s street grid. In one of the Museum’s ground floor galleries, urban historian Hilary Ballon has curated The… »

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