Urban Design Week
Urban Design Week was a pioneering public festival created to engage New Yorkers in the fascinating and complex issues of the public realm, and to celebrate the streetscapes, sidewalks, and public spaces at the heart of city life. Through an ideas competition and a rich roster of discussions, tours, screenings, workshops, and events across the five boroughs, UDW highlighted the fact that cities are made by collective effort, and that each of us can play a part.
Urban Design Week was a pioneering public festival created to engage New Yorkers in the fascinating and complex issues of the public realm.
Urban Design Week was a public festival created to engage New Yorkers in the fascinating and complex issues of the public realm, and to celebrate the streetscapes, sidewalks, and public spaces at the heart of city life. At its heart was By the City/ For the City, a crowdsourced design project that gathered more than […]
In 2011 the Urban Design Forum invited architects, planners, artists, designers, and students around the world to participate in By the City / For the City, a collaborative re-imagining of New York City’s public realm.
By the City/For the City is an index of ideas about the city centered on accessibility, beauty, connectivity, enjoyment, and social equity.
Posted — September 15, 2011
