Posts Tagged ‘New urbanism’
Week in Review
Sunday, October 18th, 2020Monday M.B.A.
Monday, March 27th, 2017In the clip above, SUNY ESF grad and Philly designer Nate Hommel gives good advice about experimentation that is also essential to entrepreneurship. He visited for the Visioning Voices Community Speaker Series and Workshop.
Syracuse Architectural Digest: Tactical Urbanist
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
Nate Hommel, urban designer
Nate Hommel says that streets are public spaces. During a workshop and didactic session at Assumption Church, the Director of planning and design for University City District (UCD) told residents, students, and developers to hack, tinker, analyze and design to help transform spaces and help people love where they live. When you love where you live, he said, you start caring a lot more about things that go on and you become more involved.
Hommel is pictured at a the Freedom Garden on N. Townsend, which is a few stone throw away from where he was born (St. Joseph’s Hospital).
He is a graduate of SUNY ESF and has worked for UCD since 2012.
Syracuse Architectural Digest: Street Level Design
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
712 East Fayette Street (Almond Corridor)
Syracuse Architectural Digest: Re-Thinking Blight
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
Despite what we see sometimes, housing is one of our most under appreciated assets.
We finally got a look at the Syracuse Land Bank’s portfolio of available residential and commercial properties. We wonder how soon they will coordinate with a company to do actual vacant house tours. In Pittsburgh this is something they are actually doing now.
Syracuse Architectural Digest: On The Sly
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016Here is a great write-up by Rick Moriarty about one of the city’s most under appreciated architectural gems.
SOTC: The Best of Times/The Worst of Times
Friday, January 29th, 2016
Mayor Stephanie Miner gave the State of the City Address at the Southwest Community Center last night.
She may have gotten a shout-out from First Lady Michelle Obama at the U.S.
Conference of Mayors; she may have been selected to the prestigious Rodel Fellowhip Program (Aspen Institute), but last night Mayor Stephanie Miner had to focus on reality here in Syracuse, the city she leads, the city where she resides.
During her 2016 State of the City Address at the Southwest Community Center, she painted with broad strokes when citing the accomplishments of her administration, including new inspiring economic development projects. At the same time, she didn’t turn a blind eye to some of those unsavory details that color our current condition.
Mayor Miner even evoked the empathetic spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as she reminded the bipartisan audience that true civic engagement occurs when all people are integrated into the success of a metropolis and inequality doesn’t lead to abandonment.
It’s never an easy job, but someone has to do it.
Urban Cycle
Saturday, September 13th, 2014
Warren Street
Usage Quotient
Saturday, September 6th, 2014“Once you make a park safe and beautiful, you have to give people a reason to use it…” Danny Meyer, restaurateur
Syracuse Architectural Digest: The Corridor, An Appreciation
Monday, August 25th, 2014“[Leaders] have the power to create an environment in which people will naturally thrive and advance…” Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last
Can the Corridor become the new heart of the city
Last week the Connective Corridor threw a Midsummer Night Party at Forman Park. The event included dining, music and a public art instillation. We didn’t get to stay for the whole event, which started late due to midday rain, but what we saw looked like attending a big dinner party crawling with interesting people (including politicians, police officers, neighborhood business leaders, students, SU officials and visitors from out of town).
Despite what we think about the price tag and the construction delays, the Connective Corridor project continues to bring people together in Midtown, Downtown, on the Hill, and the Near Westside.
We realize there are other pressing issues for our city, such as the frequent water main breaks and aging infrastructure. Most NY cities have this problem.
We also are convinced that there’s no magic bullet or cure-all for Syracuse (including downtown stadiums, highway re-routing and harbor hotels), but we applaud the radical focus the Corridor team has applied to coalescing the city through transportation/design/arts.
The Corridor office operates like a reality award-winning R&D shop and urban design center.They are dedicated to making the city work better and we’ve seen it up close. The Corridor leadership under the direction of Marilyn Higgins and Linda Dickerson Hartsock has produced some great initiatives. Chancellor Cantor may have cast the vision, but Higgins and Hartsock helped bring it to pass.
Someday we all will look back and realize The Corridor was one of the five things that helped revive this city.
May the innovations continue.
Filming in Forman Park
Lifting the veil on urban design
Urban Rest Stop: Public Art Installation