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Imagining and Exploring Better Ways to Get Around NYC
The Van Alen Institute's FLOW! festival features a range of talks and activities to help designers, urbanists, and New Yorkers of all stripes find new ways of navigating New York.
Urbanism
Film
Invisible Cities: Matthew Barney's Blindspot
Let’s look past the globules, barnacles, and goo. At its heart, Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament is a film about white, male America’s failure to comprehend urbanism.
Opinion
New Trends in Global Urbanism
The BMW Guggenheim Lab, that UFO of urban experimentation that took up residence in New York City and Berlin, has just published a helpful guide to the most recent trends in city activity. Here are some of the major trends contained therein.
Art
Roberta’s and the BMW Guggenheim Lab: A Comparison
Roberta’s, that beloved Bushwick pizza joint, has been tapped to run the cafe at the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a pop-up urban think tank of sorts that opened earlier this month on a narrow, otherwise forgotten plot of land on East First Street owned by the Department of Parks & Recreation.
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World's Largest Wooden Structure Built in Spain
The city of Seville might be best known in art circles as the birthplace of famed Spanish painter Diego Velazquez, but now the city has another claim to fame — it is now the home of the world's largest wooden structure, a 5,000 square meter canopy over the central Plaza de la Encarnacion.
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Festival of Ideas Animates a Gentrified Bowery
Obama laid a wreath at the base of the former World Trade Towers right after Osama had been buried at sea. And, as if on cue the utopian “Festival of Ideas For the New City” launched, vowing to “harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to