The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places w/ Photographer & Urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
View photographs and hear stories from Bendiner-Viani's latest book about the everyday places that are vital to building community!
Untapped New York was started in 2010 by a then student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she is now a professor. We love architecture and believe there is no better place to celebrate it than NYC!
Since the late 1950s, the mayoral administrations of New York City, have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to redevelop the Willets Point
This week, four quirky urban projects caught our attention, from photographing door numbers in London for each day of the
Source: Library of Congress “The Future of Trinity Church” is a wood engraving from 1907 by Albert Levering from Puck’
The routes we physically occupy determine our understanding of our city. We create mental maps, conforming our idea of the
We’ve been wondering what this curious roller coaster-like structure is, sitting along the East River just under the Queensboro
Did you know that the New York City public school system used to have its own custom made cast brass
Last year, Untapped Cities contributor Matt Lambros took us into the abandoned Loew’s King Theater in Brooklyn, a theater
Streets in New York City (and the world) are often christened with appealing names that indirectly reflect the history of
New Amsterdam indeed. In 2007, the City of New York, new owners of Governors Island, selected Dutch landscape architecture firm
There are a lot of surprising facts about Governors Island. For example, most of the island (almost 60%) is made
Today the architectural world celebrates Eero Saarinen’s birthday. Born in Finland on August 20, 1910 (his architect dad Eliel
While the majority of New York City’s subway entrances have the same mundane look, there are others that still
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