A fond farewell to the Downtown Alliance composting bin pilot, where the bins collected 105,157 pounds of organic waste over 18 months.
All posts tagged Street Furniture
CANCELLED: Jane’s Walk 2022 – Roosevelt Island Street Furniture: Where Policy Meets our Bodies
Jane’s Walk is just around the corner, and we are hosting a session! Join me on a virtual self-guided tour of your neighborhood where we’ll explore different examples of NYC street furniture during Jane’s Walk 2022. We’re going to start live-streaming from Roosevelt Island – please follow along at home or work. Municipalities are full…
Paris Bollard: ode to the bollard as culture generator
Can you fall in love with a Paris Bollard? Perhaps. In these parts we love bollards as an idiosyncratic typology: when done right they become usefully iconic, when done poorly they stick out of the urban fabric as security-theatre impediment. Here’s a great article by the Social Life Project called The Little Bollard That Could……
Curbside EV Charger
An invasive species of EV chargers
San Francisco’s toilet and kiosk contract with JCDecaux under investigation
San Francisco’s toilet and kiosk contract with JCDecaux is under investigation, linked to public sector fraud
Outdoor Dining Pavilions
As a response to COVID-19, NYC has created a new ecosystem for Outdoor Dining Pavilions of every shape, size, and material
Why studying street furniture is important
Street furniture is where public policy meets our bodies. Topics like zoning and land use are fascinating, and I can speak or read books about these topics all day. But, it’s really really hard to understand zoning – and really difficult to hold zoning in our minds eye without scrambling a bit. We can kind…
Jane’s Walk NYC 2021 Starts
Happy Monday, friends of tiny urban devices, and those who were waiting for Jane’s Walk NYC 2021! A happy reminder that starting today thousands of New Yorkers and visitors alike will take to the streets and tune in online for Jane’s Walk, which lasts between May 3-9. We are hosting our own Jane’s Walk 2021…
Jane’s Walk 2021 – Street Furniture: Where Policy Meets our Bodies
Jane’s Walk is just around the corner, and we are hosting a session! Join me on a virtual self-guided tour of your neighborhood where we’ll explore different examples of NYC street furniture during Jane’s Walk 2021, on May 5th. WE’re going to start live-streaming from Roosevelt Island – please follow along at home or work.…
Observed: Parc Vue bin
Observed in Roosevelt Island, NYC the Parc Vue by Landscape Forms.