From Likes, +1s, Tweets, Mayorships and Tips to the flow of the city, how can today's social media data help us better understand and potentially design a city better?
Pulitzer Prize Winning Critic Margo Jefferson talks about a new reading series in Harlem, cross-genre evolution on the literary scene, and her new book combining memoir and cultural criticism.
An evocative exhibit at the Italian Academy of Columbia University showcases photographs by Chinese artist Liu Xia, wife of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiabo.
Videos of New York City from Montage City, a class by Urban Omnibus' Cassim Shepard.
The Spatial Information Lab at Columbia University assembled a savvy project which measures Foursquare and Facebook “check-ins.”
Janette Sadik-Kahn, the New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner, , the Vice President of Platforms and Partnerships at Waze and Rachel Sterne, the Chief Digital Officer at New York City Media were among the many representatives in attendance who presented progressive ideas and projects involving transportation and technology in cities.
The 2011 Municipal Arts Society (MAS) Summit gathered developers, academics, architects, financiers and urbanophiles of all types in the Time Warner Center this past Thursday and Friday to wax poetic on the economic, social and environmental future of NYC.
If you look closely, there are numerous monuments to "The Boy Mayor" of New York City, who rose to fame as a reformer and had a tragic early death.
Subway Series: An all-in-one performance of accordion, trumpet, baking dish and stick.
Where the bohemian and literary-minded gather and where Woody Allen filmed Husbands and Wives.