On Broadway

This studio will focus its inquiry on a section of one of the most important streets of the world – upper Broadway from Columbus Circle to 170th Street. The Broad Way is a historic trace of the great Bloemendaal of Manhattan’s upper west side and is also full of possibilities that would allow for a hyperdense urban future. With seemingly contrasting goals of being a retail corridor, a planted greenway, an urban infrastructural system, and a vehicular thoroughfare, it’s hard to imagine packing in anything else. It’s at the epicenter of urban life while at the same time being the front stoop of a great neighborhood to live and work in. This studio seeks to rethink the notion of “street,” from Jane Jacobs’ understanding that people make places, to Janette Sadik Kahn’s reclaiming roadways for pedestrians.