In the fall of 2016, the Urban Design Forum invited its Fellows and experts to help us craft a vision for the future of mobility in New York City. Within these pages, you’ll find an inventory of imaginative thinking on what our city’s transportation landscape could be. Here is a directory of our city’s most creative designers, public heroes, pioneering technologists, and grassroots organizers eager to animate our public realm and blaze new trails for isolated communities. Scattered throughout are three essays that comment on the relationships between mobility and community planning, social justice and urban form.
Our aim in presenting them is to ignite a debate about how to build a more connected New York. Please continue to share your ideas with us. Let’s drive toward a more accessible, equitable and sustainable city. Onward!
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Places ↓
Future Living: Possibilities and Priorities in Transportation
Shin-pei Tsay
Activate Our Subway Stations
Tim Braine
Transform Gas Stations into Civic Beacons
Andrew Burdick & Kyle Graham
Reveal Penn Palimpsest
Vishaan Chakrabarti
Grow the Green Line
Jonathan Cohn
Access Transit Information in Red Hook
Eugenia Di Girolamo
Revive Harlem Lane
Alexander Garvin
Green the Streets for Shade and Stormwater
Alloy & Gowanus Canal Conservancy
Merge the Broadway Malls
Noemie LaFaurie-Debany
Plant The FOREX
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Reimagine the Brooklyn Strand
Claire Weisz & Jacob Dugopolski
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Incomplete Streets: Who’s Missing from “Complete Streets?”
Stephen Zavestoski & Julian Agyeman
Revamp the L Train
Richard Barone
Weave New Rail Through Queens
Elizabeth S. Crowley
Look to the Sky in Staten Island
Steven Grillo
Stroll Along Fourteenth
Transportation Alternatives
Create the 42nd Street Grand Passage
Karen Listowsky, Alfred Peter, & Charles Bové
Connect the Brooklyn and Queens Waterfronts
Friends of the BQX
Ring Around the Harbor
Mike Lydon
Connect Underserved Neighborhoods
Jack Robbins
Link Upper Manhattan and the Bronx
Ydanis Rodriguez
Build for Growth on the Bay Ridge Branch
Oliver Schaper
Stop Bike-Lock from Choking Manhattan
Sam Schwartz & Gerard Soffian
Unlock Equitable Transit for the Autonomous Age
Jeffrey Shumaker
Move Our Trash Fast
Juliette Spertus
Unify Our Regional Rail Networks
Jim Venturi
Turn Crisis into Opportunity with BRT
Annie Weinstock
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The Urban Digital Transformation: A Perspective for the Next 25 Years
Rohit T. Aggarwala
Ease Congestion with Microtransit
Alex Armlovich
Advance Fair Fares For All
Rebecca Bailin
Move Our Buses at the Speed of New York
David Bragdon & Tabitha Decker
Provide On-Demand Paratransit
Sarah Kaufman
Electrify Our Transit Network
Adam Lubinsky
Reform the Curb
Transportation Alternatives
Dedicate Our Streets
Margaret Newman
Zone for Mass Transit
Robert Paley
Offer All the Options in One App
Eric Rothman & Martin Leung
Free the Streets from Freight
Paul Salama
Reserve the Curb for Green Loading
Paul Salama
Reclaim Street Space in the Driverless City
FXCollaborative & Sam Schwartz Engineering
Reinvent the Traffic Light
Paolo Santi
Deliver Goods By Subway
Terreform
Deploy an Electric Car Network
Sabina Uffer
Expand Our Bike Share Network
Jay Walder
Edited by ↓
Daniel McPhee
Editorial support by ↓
Emma Ng and Nikhil Sambamurthy
Design by ↓
Graphic support and maps by ↓
Deniz Onder and Eleni Gklinou
Publication information ↓
Date: February 2018
Size: 7″ x 8.5″
Pages: 150
ISBN: 978-0-9791869-0-5