Posts Tagged ‘New York’
While many use iPhones to navigate cities or find a good restaurant, a new app has attempted to use the same technology to enrich the urban experience and uncover unrealized layers of the landscape. Museum of the Phantom City is a public art project designed by Cheng+Snyder, a multidisciplinary design studio based in New York City and Philadelphia. The Phantom City transforms NYC into a living museum and maps 50 unrealized projects onto the current urban grid. The beta version of the app is available for free and you can also view the entire tour on their website.
Read more about the project on BldgBlog
Tags: Apps, futures, iphone, New York, unrealized projects
Posted by Joan Winter on November 12, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, maps | No Comments »
Before Henry Hudson landed on the shores of Manhattan island, the area’s biodiversity rivaled Yosemite and Yellowstone National Park. The Mannahatta Project seeks to understand what New York looked like before it became a city. To recreate Manhattan circa 1600, the project “used GIS software to layer spatial datasets (i.e. maps), to derive maps of topography, streams, and eventually species and ecological community types.” While the project explores the transition from an undeveloped to an urban landscape, it hope to inspire people to consider ways of living that are “compatible with wildlife and wild places and that will sustain people and planet Earth for the next 400 years.”
Tags: ecology, enviornmentalism, landscape, Manhattan, New York, NYC, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on October 29, 2009 in GPS, maps | No Comments »
Arches, Portal, Sunlight in Harlem’s PS 186 by Nathan Kensinger
Nathan Kensinger publishes two photo essays a month on his blog, Nathan Kensinger Photography: The Abandoned & Industrial Edges of New York. Photographs include Coney Island: Under the Board Walk, Harry Houdini’s grave, abandoned bungalows in Queens, and Brooklyn’s Industrial waterfront.
Tags: abandoned buildings, industrial, New York, NYC, photo essay
Posted by Joan Winter on August 17, 2009 in architecture, photography | No Comments »
Outline and Index Map of Atlas of New York City : Manhattan Island (1897). Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
The NYPL has included 2,000 maps from from the New York City Fire Insurance Atlases (1852-1923) in the Google Earth index. These highly detailed maps illustrate individual building structures, lot dimensions, neighborhood zoning and the region’s topography. By incorporating historic collections with Google Earth’s platform, the NYPL provides the curious with a contextual structure for browsing and comparing cartographic documents. Once you’ve downloaded the map index, you can launch Google Earth and chart the development of the built environment in NYC.
For more detailed information about the New York City Fire Insurance Atlases and to download the Google Earth index, visit the NYPL’s website.
Tags: Google Earth, maps, New York, NYPL, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on April 2, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, maps | No Comments »
The Library of Congress’ Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 includes moving images of traffic, parades, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, paperboys, shopping, construction of skyscrapers, street cleaners and subways.
Tags: film, historic preservation, Library of Congress, New York
Posted by Joan Winter on December 15, 2008 in architectural history, photography | No Comments »
Place Matters conducted a survey of New Yorkers to discover buildings and landmarks rich in tradition, and resonant with memory. Besides providing a historic databank, their research is also instrumental in protecting threatened places. Browse by borough, neighborhood, building use, community and time period to discover new social and architectural facets of a complex city.
Tags: historic preservation, New York, urban design
Posted by Joan Winter on November 18, 2008 in architectural history | No Comments »
Conceptual artist Dylan Stone took these 26,000 color snapshot photographs of Manhattan south of Canal Street in order to document the cityscape block by block. The photographs are available on the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Tags: New York, New York Public Library Digital Gallery, photography
Posted by Joan Winter on October 13, 2008 in architectural history, art, landscape, photography | 2 Comments »
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