Jul 6, 2011
We’re just a few days away from launching a fundraising drive to build the Uni, a portable reading room for public space. We’d like to offer a preview of the Uni to those of you following the blog here at Boston Street Lab. Below are new links—feedback...
May 10, 2011
We concluded the Storefront Library over a year ago in Chinatown, and tonight I’m excited to share photos of something new underway which I believe has tremendous potential to carry the torch forward in the neighborhood. Terrific people are getting behind a new,...
May 9, 2011
This weekend I walked up and down the Bowery and around Sara D. Roosevelt Park in NYC to see what ideas were on offer at the street festival called “StreetFest,” organized by the New Museum in conjunction with its Festival of Ideas for the New City. I knew...
Aug 10, 2010
Inspired by Films at the Gate, the Fenway Community Development Corporation held their own free, outdoor, movie screenings for the Fenway community, borrowing a vacant parking lot from The Abbey Group for the occasion. “Starlight Movie Nights” were held...
Jun 8, 2009
An editorial in the New York Times gives a nod to the concept of testing large-scale (expensive) urban plans with temporary (inexpensive) installations. In regards to lawn chairs set out in Times Square during the recent pilot closure of midtown streets, the Times...
Jan 10, 2009
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