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An online publication of the Architectural League dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city.
New release! “Unsettled Ground ”

The city’s construction projects don’t just rise skyward, they also dig downward, displacing vast amounts of material whose movement in and out of the city largely goes unseen. Lynnette Widder traces the path.
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Unsettled Ground - Urban Omnibus
The city’s construction projects don’t just rise skyward. They dig downward, displacing massive amounts of material whose journey in and out of the city few ever see.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
New release! “A Question About Tomorrow”

As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. ‪@oschwo.bsky.social‬ asks what it will take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant.
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A Question About Tomorrow - Urban Omnibus
As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. So what will it take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant?
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November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New release! “Life Beyond Line Items”

To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. In conversation, Celina Su and @thinaar.bsky.social ask: How can we build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?
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Life Beyond Line Items - Urban Omnibus
To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. What spaces and methods can help us build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?
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November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New release! “A Century of Cross Bronx Developments”
Who built the Cross Bronx? In Ray Bromley’s history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.
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A Century of Cross Bronx Developments - Urban Omnibus
Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New release! “Swimming Ahead”
Speculative proposals by architect Karolina Czeczek ask, What if New York City’s public pools could make a splash all year long? Photos by Anna Morgowicz.
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Swimming Ahead - Urban Omnibus
What if New York City’s public pools were open all year long?
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October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New release! “The Tempest”
As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, @kecaritter.bsky.social surveys how outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.
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The Tempest - Urban Omnibus
As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Really cool exhibit in the Bronx from @urbanomnibus.bsky.social @nycplanning.bsky.social now through November!

Learn about the Cross Bronx, its history, and its impact on local communities through history:
Exhibition: Cross Bronx / Living Legend - Urban Omnibus
Reconsidering one of New York City’s most contested infrastructures through new photography and oral histories that focus on the experiences of the people and places touched by it, our exhibition is o...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Read the latest from the New City Critics 2024–2025 cohort: "Monuments, Peripheries, and Ecologies"
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Ellie Botoman, Ekemini Ekpo, Daphne Lundi, Anoushka Mariwala, Philip Poon, and Shirt ask a shared question: How and where do we continue to belong to this place?

📸 Samuel Lahoz
July 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New release! “Permanent Resident”
The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. Mariana Mogilevich tells the story of the building, which closely tracks larger struggles to secure a home in the city.
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Permanent Resident - Urban Omnibus
The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. The story of the building closely tracks larger struggles to make a stable, se...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“Seneca Village, Envisioned”
No visual records remained of a thriving, majority Black village cleared to make Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.
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Seneca Village, Envisioned - Urban Omnibus
No visual records remained after a thriving, majority Black village was cleared to make way for Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed spec...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New release! “The World is About to Turn”
In the weekly Jericho Walk, Ravi Ragbir and the New Sanctuary Coalition (‪@newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social‬) confront a site of darkness and fear for many immigrants, and make sure that friends are not alone in their journey.
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The World is About to Turn - Urban Omnibus
In the weekly Jericho Walk, New Sanctuary Coalition and allies confront a site of darkness and fear for many immigrants, and make sure that friends are not alone in their journey.
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June 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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New release!
Globally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, Jefferson Mao asks, is it more unmoored than ever?
Neither Here Nor There - Urban Omnibus
Globally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens, has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, is it ...
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May 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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This is crazy-beautiful writing about the city in general and Flushing in particular. 🌆 💗
May 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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New release! “Networked Nursery”
Preserving and propagating the city’s autochthonous flora, Staten Island’s Greenbelt Native Plant Center, Morgan Mueller argues, is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
Networked Nursery - Urban Omnibus
Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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New release! “Sign Off”
Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm. Photographer Alexa Hoyer and writer Aaron Kang Smithson track them across the boroughs and the last century.
Sign Off - Urban Omnibus
Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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"The Greenbelt Native Plant Center (GNPC) is NYC's only municipal native plant nursery and seed bank. More than just a greenhouse operation, it functions as an ecological infrastructure hub. The center cultivates native plant species adapted to New York’s unique urban and coastal environments..."
Networked Nursery - Urban Omnibus
Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
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May 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Urban Omnibus is soliciting new features, essays, and portfolios!

Send us a one-paragraph pitch or proposal along with a little information about you as an author and an example of past work. Email any questions and your pitches to info@urbanomnibus.net. Deadline: Monday, May 19.
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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New release! “Try a Little Tenderness”
A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support. Daphne Lundi and Louise Yeung of Romantic Urbanism interview Schuyler deVos and Ezekiel Maben about their Department of Tenderness.
Try a Little Tenderness - Urban Omnibus
A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support.
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April 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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New release! “A Tentative Rollout”
Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility. Urban planner Thandi Nyambose tracks their ups and downs.
📸 Abigail Montes
A Tentative Rollout - Urban Omnibus
Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility.
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April 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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New release! “This Is a Rehearsal”
With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, the playwright Aaron Landsman (@thinaar.bsky.social) considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?
This Is a Rehearsal - Urban Omnibus
With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, a playwright considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?
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April 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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New feature release! “Home Valuation”
@city.bsky.social and @jonathantarleton.bsky.social discuss new stories from Mitchell-Lama co-ops and the LA Tenants Union narrate the housing crisis as a struggle for control, and over the true meaning of a home.
Home Valuation - Urban Omnibus
New stories from Mitchell-Lama co-ops and the LA Tenants Union narrate the housing crisis as a struggle for control, and over the true meaning of a home.
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March 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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New feature release! “The Power Issue”
Noah Fischer’s newspaper from the future imagines how New Yorkers defeat fascism, defend public power, electrify everything, and protect each other from flooding.
The Power Issue - Urban Omnibus
A newspaper from the future imagines how New Yorkers defeat fascism, defend public power, electrify everything, and protect each other from flooding.
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March 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Read the latest from New City Critics!
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March 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM