By the City / For the City: Citizens Dream Up Solutions for New York

April 28, 2011 • 2:00 pm PDT
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For two weeks, New Yorkers have been submitting ideas to By The City / For the City, a massive brainstorm to create an "atlas of opportunity" for urban improvement. Here's a sampling of what's come in so far.

As you flip through these images, keep in mind that world class designers, architects, and urban planners are standing by to make these submissions reality. As the website says:

We’ll rally the international design community to create proposals for many of your suggested sites and situations. Then we’ll gather everything together, publish an atlas of opportunity for the future for the city.

Some of the ideas are small and utterly sensible, like redeveloping a vacant lot. Some are massive, like overhauling the city's transit system. And some are plain whimsical, like the proposal for a water slide to get from Brooklyn Heights down to the waterfront—a massive, steep and currently impassable drop.

You still have two days left to send in your own suggestion. Get dreaming.

Alex Goldmark
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