Closing Bell: Unleash Your Inner Urban Planner
The registration deadline for a contest Transportation Alternatives is running that involves submitting ideas for a re-imagining of 9th Street and 4th Avenue has been extended until the end of this month. According to TA, “The competition is open to the entire public: we hope that community members without any design training as well as…
The registration deadline for a contest Transportation Alternatives is running that involves submitting ideas for a re-imagining of 9th Street and 4th Avenue has been extended until the end of this month. According to TA, “The competition is open to the entire public: we hope that community members without any design training as well as design professionals and students will submit their ideas for street design improvements at this intersection. In rethinking the way city streets work, the competition will explore ways to make our city more environmentally sustainable and reestablish the importance of the street as a tool to promote positive social and economic interactions.” There will be an exhibit of the winner’s proposal at the end of the year.
Call for Entries [21st Century Street]
Take a Shot at Redesigning Brooklyn’s Park Avenue [Curbed] GMAP
T.A. Offers Reward for Park Slope Post-Automobile Street Designs [Streetsblog]
Damn, I hadn’t heard that the overpass rehab has been nixed. I was really looking forward to that. Maybe instead, they could take a page from down the street, Smith and 9th, and past some of those oversized Notary signs onto the buildings and overpass. Or, it could become the Ari Halberstam memorial overpass.
Pardon me for asking but what will come of this?
Isn’t Transportation Alternatives a private group? Do they have some sway with the city? Have other contest winners’ plans ever been built?
Just asking. It’s a good idea but if the plan to rehab the 9th street subway overpass just got killed because of budgetary concerns (so sad, would have looked great), what’s the point?