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Dispatches
by Urban Omnibus
Urbanists of various stripes talk about what they are doing and how they are learning from the entangled crises of 2020. From Urban Omnibus. https://urbanomnibus.net
Episodes
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Poetry for the People, in Public Spaces
A year of confinement and circumscription, 2020 has altered New Yorkers’ relationship to place. KC Trommer, Nadia Q. Ahmad and Jared Harél are better equipped than most to capture this state of heightened site-specificity. The three writers are, respectively, the founder and board members of...
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This Is What We’re Seeing, This Is What We’re Not Seeing
Contrary to certain “ghostly” claims, at the close of a year that’s upended urban life as we know it, New York City has, to a large degree, managed to adapt. New Yorkers’ expectations have adjusted to all sorts of new normals: social distancing; remote working and learning; (semi-)open streets…
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Remaining Connected
For a year spent locking down, there’s been an awful lot of talk about moving. New Yorkers are supposedly fleeing the city in droves (or so the story goes). The flipside of this narrative, of course, is forced removal: a looming eviction crisis that is set to disproportionately impact the city’s...
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We're About Getting People Free, Period
As surely as a public health crisis shakes the foundation of a society, incarceration demolishes the infrastructure of a life. Housing is lost and jobs dry up. The relationships and encounters that formed the basis of an essential network of support are disrupted. The impossible tradeoffs faced…
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There's a Difference between Tactical and Shortsighted
There’s something different about New York City streets these days. As the Department of Transportation expands the scope of its Open Streets program (with mixed results), more than 7,500 restaurants have been spilling out onto sidewalks and parking spots across the city. Many New Yorkers…
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Everyone Has Something to Give, Everyone Has Something That They Need
In New York City, the spread of the novel coronavirus has closely tracked the geography of segregation. Though its long-term consequences for public and economic health remain unknown, its immediate threat to the city’s most vulnerable became clear within days. Thousands found themselves suddenly...
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What People Need and What the Stock Provides
The amount of time spent indoors these days has prompted a great deal of introspection about New York City’s housing landscape. While some enjoy living space in abundance, or have just enough, many others are forced to reckon with crowded quarters that don’t easily meet the demands of quarantine…
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The World Inverted
Flocking to parks seeking comfort and escape, New Yorkers are finding controversy instead. Warmer temperatures bring people outdoors and too close together, leading to stricter limitations on access to open space combined with a greater police presence. Though it has seen its share of crowds in...
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Making Science Actionable
There are few precedents for understanding the current pandemic; it’s not exactly the kind of disaster we’ve been expecting. But long immersed in the city’s interconnected ecologies and infrastructures, the New School’s Urban Systems Lab is exploring how many of the key indicators of…
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Communications, con Cariño
One pillar holding up the socially distanced city is the Internet. But under the strain of migrating so much of our work, education, and leisure online, telecommunications networks could use a failsafe; and in the best of times, reliable internet is hardly accessible to all. For the first...
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Urbanists of various stripes talk about what they are doing and how they are learning from the entangled crises of 2020. From Urban Omnibus. https://urbanomnibus.net
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