Last year MAS and the RPA unveiled Penn 2023, a report outlining a bold vision for a new Penn District in West Midtown. This session will cover new ways of thinking about and enhancing the Penn district – including options for a relocated Madison Square Garden – and what these changes could mean for the country's busiest train station.
One of the hallmarks of successful cities is a dynamic creative sector that contributes to the vibrancy of neighborhoods, and to the life of the city as a whole. How do artists—as designers, as activists, as provocateurs, as bridge-builders—connect disparate parts of the city and different communities to one another?
New York City is one of the most important global centers of capital, a distinction it shares with few cities around the world. What trends are we seeing, and what challenges do we need to address, in maintaining our financial leadership? What can we learn from other centers of global capital?
Entrepreneurs have helped fuel an innovation economy in New York City over the last 200 years, but the rising cost of living and working, and other factors, are major deterrents to the kind of risk-taking that made New York “New York.” What steps must we take in order to sustain a creative, entrepreneurial class?
As the world continues to rapidly urbanize, we look at the role that cities can play in delivering justice and opportunity for all their citizens. Where can we find examples of interventions that protect human rights, empower residents, and strengthen the social and economic capacity of the city?
Cities face many challenges with competing solutions: climate change, economic inequality, lack of access to resources and opportunities, and social and political conflict. Can we plan and design for outcomes that serve nature and human rights of people? Join Toni L. Griffin, Director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City and David Maddox, Founder and Editor of The Natures of Cities, as they initiate a year-long collaboration with the MAS Global Practitioner Network on creating green and just cities.
Cities are global incubators of economic and social innovation. How can we continue to position cities as worthy of investment?
Community-based planning emphasizes the role of community members in envisioning their neighborhood’s future. In this session, a short video will highlight how that approach guides MAS’ planning efforts in Brownsville, and a panel of grassroots planners will discuss their own work in the neighborhood.
Neighborhoods across New York are experiencing development and growth, whether it takes the form of super-tall towers and gentrification, new waterfront spaces and housing opportunities, or green building construction. What can our Borough Presidents tell us about the transformations underway in their boroughs?
Historically New Yorkers have thought about the East River as the city’s edge, but it is poised to become the city’s new center. With new development, public space and transportation sprouting up on both sides of the river, proposals for further intensification, and pressing challenges of affordable housing and sea level rise, the East River presents a series of compelling new challenges. This panel will explore this fascinating future, with an eye towards what the River offers New York as a place to live, work and play.
The de Blasio administration was elected last year on a platform of change, with a mandate to re-balance inequality in the city and ensure broader opportunities for all New Yorkers. In this exciting culmination of the 2014 Summit for New York City, a panel of resourceful, imaginative New Yorkers will offer their insights on top priorities and ideas for the city in the coming year, in response to ideas submitted by Summit attendees over the course of the two days.