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Epicenter

Public Housing, Practice, and Design

Innovative Housing

Prefabrication in the Public Realm

Streetscapes for Wellness

Women-Designed NYC Exhibition Opening

Art for New York Panel

Open House NY 2019

Prefabrication Roundtable Discussion

Shared Spaces DesignTalksNYC

Women-Built NYC

Reshaping Streetscapes

Open House NY 2018

Quality Affordable Housing AIANY Panel

Open House NY 2017

Excavating City Hall Park

Open House NY 2016

Designing Quality Affordable Housing

Design for Equity Panel Series 2015-2016

Open House NY 2015


Reshaping Streetscapes

Fine Arts Federation 2018 Annual Meeting

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 6:30 pm

New York Foundation for the Arts

20 Jay Street, Suite 740

Brooklyn, NY 11201

On the occasion of its 2018 Annual Meeting, The Fine Arts Federation of New York, in collaboration with the New York City Public Design Commission, explored strategies to promote design excellence for one of the most unruly areas of the public realm: sidewalks and streets.

Famous as the stage for New York’s sidewalk ballet, today our streetscapes host a proliferation of urban infrastructure: bioswales, wi-fi kiosks, security barricades, pop-up cafes, bike-share stations, sundry street furniture, public art, and more. Can this cacophony of uses in the public right-of-way be reimagined through smart and sensitive streetscape design? A multidisciplinary panel explored the challenges and opportunities our streetscapes represent to advance health, safety, resilience, and civic life.

Presenters include:

Neil Gagliardi, Director of Urban Design, New York City Department of Transportation

John Massengale, Urban Designer and Author, Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns

Regina Myer, President, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

Members of the New York City Public Design Commission served as respondents:

Signe Nielsen, PDC Landscape Architect and Founding Principal, MNLA

Ethel Sheffer, PDC Mayor’s Representative and Principal, Insight Associates

Shin-pei Tsay, PDC Lay Member and Executive Director, Gehl Institute

Moderated by:

Justin Garrett Moore, Executive Director, NYC Public Design Commission