Urbanism

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Who

Transforming Urban Planning Into Community-Centric Solutions

Urban Answers has successfully facilitated numerous community discussions leading to actionable insights and collaborations that successfully address local urban issues, fostering greater civic involvement and improved quality of life.

Our organization champions participatory planning and ensures diverse voices contribute to projects, enhancing community resilience and inclusivity.

A few Good Projects

Urban Answers grew out of a Design Trust for Public Space Fellowship synthesizing a series of intensive workshops to quickly explored a range of improvements to the streets, sidewalks, subways, and public spaces in Times Square to make the “crossroads of the world” more pedestrian-friendly. A pedestrian-mobility plan emerged to guide Times Square’s transformation.

Urban Answers has since gathered interdisciplinary teams as required to help public, private, grassroots and institutional clients evolve urban spaces and programs to reach their potential. With an unwavering commitment to safety, transparency, data-based analyses and civic engagement, effective communication and clear graphic outputs are a hallmark of this work.

Our Mission

To engage and empower urban residents through a collaborative platform that inspires meaningful discussions and actions on local planning issues, enhancing the overall quality of life in communities.

A Vision

To provide a functional platform to allow for 24/7 Town Hall activities from GIS mapping and surveys to proposal briefings analyses and counterpoints. In so doing Urban Answers will become a catalyst for community-based planning, ensure inclusive engagement and offer sustainable solutions for cities that learn for from those who live and work locally and prioritize the needs and voices of all user groups.

Timeline

Milestone Projects

Some of Urban Answers most important work has come out of community based responses to unexpected events. . .

Turn of the Century

What’s in a Domain Name?

urbananswers.com was secured at the same time as facebook, google earth and the first podcasts. The concept has always been to engage social media to bridge the gap between communities and urban decision makers by creating a community-centric platform for open discussion.

Year 2oo3-2004

Times Square Pedestrian Engineering Fellowship

Year 2009

Roosevelt Island Cradle to Cradle Islands Grant

Urban Answers coordinated a professional and academic exchange . . .

Year 2008

New York Harbor School on Governors Island & Billion Oyster Project

Year 2020

Leaf Island Technologies

Post Sandy

Red Hook Eco-Industrial Masterplan
& Staten Island Wetland Trust

Get Involved

Be Part of the Solution for Your Community

Join Urban Answers today to collaborate with others and make meaningful changes in your urban environment.