The Regional Plan Association is America’s oldest independent urban research and advocacy organization and has been a major player in shaping urban/regional planning thought and practice. Recently, the RPA launched a multiyear initiative to create a Fourth Regional Plan – a blueprint for the region’s growth, sustainability, good governance and economic opportunity for the next [...]
Hunts Point is a notoriously over-planned neighborhood. As the exploration of recent plans on page 15 illustrates, Hunts Point has been both the beneficiary and victim of planning efforts that have left many in the community feeling over-surveyed with inadequate results to show for it. Our client made it clear from the beginning that the [...]
A couple of years ago, the Queens Activist Committee of the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives (TAQ) approached Hunter College with an idea for a planning studio. Queens Boulevard, an arterial road slicing diagonally through the borough from Long Island City to Jamaica, has for years maintained its reputation as the “Boulevard of Death” despite the [...]
