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Urban Design Forum and Van Alen Institute will continue their Neighborhoods Now pandemic recovery initiative for 2022

2022-03-24T11:52:00-04:00

The Urban Design Forum and Van Alen Institute have announced a new cycle of Neighborhoods Now, their initiative launched in the Spring of 2020 that pairs leading architecture, design, economic development, legal, and planning firms with local New York City organizations to help drive their communities’ pandemic recovery.

As detailed in a statement by the Van Alen Institute, “Under the heading Neighborhoods Now: Forward, the initiative will extend through the end of 2022 and transition from rapid, tactical responses to long-term recovery strategies on a wider scale. Led by community organizations, seven interdisciplinary teams will enliven and program public space, provide technical support to small businesses, and strengthen cultural activities.”

Previously on Archinect: Van Alen and Urban Design Forum partner with four New York communities to develop reopening strategies

The teams are led by: 82nd Street Partnership, Asian Americans for Equality and Think!Chinatown; Bed-Stuy Gatewa...

Van Alen and Urban Design Forum partner with four New York communities to develop reopening strategies

2020-06-18T15:36:00-04:00

The Van Alen Institute, in collaboration with the Urban Design Forum, has launched Neighborhoods Now, a new initiative that connects four New York neighborhoods heavily impacted by COVID-19 with four leading design firms to collaborate and develop safe and effective reopening strategIes.

In a statement announcing the new pursuit, Van Alen Institute writes:

"In New York City and across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color. This crisis threatens to shutter small businesses and expand the racial wealth gap in neighborhoods that already lack access to resources and capital as a result of long-term structural inequity and racism. In response, and in a move to channel the talent of New York’s top design firms into these communities’ recovery, the Urban Design Forum and Van Alen Institute have launched Neighborhoods Now."

Through experimentation and collaboration, working groups from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights,Queens; Kingsbridge,...

Brooklyn Navy Yard reveals expanded master plan

2018-10-01T18:26:00-04:00

This week, the Navy Yard released new renderings and an expanded master plan that shows a 30-year plan for the complex. Developed with the multidisciplinary design firm WXY, the master plan includes three new buildings totaling 5.1 million square feet [...]. The plan also includes increased public access to the complex, including retail and open space, and improved wayfinding and circulation. The expected cost is $2.5 billion, coming on the heels of a nearly complete $1 billion expansion.

Curbed New York has a lengthy piece up about the recently unveiled new master plan for the 300-acre Brooklyn Navy Yard megadevelopment.

Rendering: bloomimages; Image via BNYDC/WXY architecture + urban design

Members of the public are invited to join a series of tours of new projects (including BLDG 77 & New Lab by Marvel Architects as well as S9 Architecture's newly opened Dock 72) and a presentation of the new master plan by representatives from the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation and WXY + architecture + design tomorrow, October 2, from 4 – 7:30pm. The event Anchoring Manufacturing: Brooklyn Navy Yard is presented by the Urban Design Forum and requires prior registration.

Rendering: bloomimages; Image via BNYDC/WXY architecture + urban design