Events

Mayor Bloomberg has announced PlaNYC, a planning process for looking at New York's next 25 years. If trends continue, the city may add almost one million new residents by the year 2030. The city is preparing a strategic plan to define how to deal with the implications of such dramatic growth.

Mayor Bloomberg has announced PlaNYC, a planning process for looking at New York's next 25 years. If trends continue, the city may add almost one million new residents by the year 2030. The city is preparing a strategic plan to define how to deal with the implications of such dramatic growth.

Mayor Bloomberg has announced PlaNYC, a planning process for looking at New York's next 25 years. If trends continue, the city may add almost one million new residents by the year 2030. The city is preparing a strategic plan to define how to deal with the implications of such dramatic growth.

George Bliss of will address a regular meeting of Auto-Free New York on the subject of "Pedicab Regulations and the Future of Green For-Hire Transportation in NYC."

A Rudin Center Visiting Scholar Seminar by Dr. Matthew G. Karlaftis, National Technical University of Athens

Join Time's Up! on bicycles or skates at 10 p.m. for a totally safe, magical, evening ride in Manhattan. As with their Moonlight Rides, Time's Up! shares the tranquillity of Central Park, plus they add the lovely tree canopy and grand vistas of the Hudson River from Riverside Park. The scenic tour continues down the greenway to the lovely pier where bicycles are welcome. After that, it's a pleasant ride through leafy streets back to Columbus Circle.

Join Time's Up! as they discover Prospect Park at night. Prospect Park is a 526-acre urban oasis located in the heart of Brooklyn.

In the "post-modern era," New York City planning principles encouraged innovative public spaces to be maintained by private entities. These spaces typically offer shelter and shortcuts. We'll beat winter by touring public atriums, passageways, lobbies and underground walkways, a more intimate side of Midtown. Leader: Jack Eichenbaum, urban geographer.

Understanding NYC's Medieval and Baroque Precedents in European and American Urban Capital Cities