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PlaNYC 2030: One Year Later
On Earth Day 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a wide-ranging plan to make the city more environmentally friendly as it expands to meet the needs of 1 million more residents by 2030. His PlaNYC offered 127 specific proposals on land use, transportation, energy, reducing greenhouse gases and other vital issues. For Earth Day 2008, Sustainability Watch, a joint project of Gotham Gazette and the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development, asked experts to assess the plan -- its successes and failures, what it does and does not do -- and what the next steps are in the long-term effort to create a livable city for 9 million people.
Congestion pricing has come and gone. And now advocates and experts examine what could come of some of the other 126 initiatives in the administration's PlaNYC in our second installment of Sustainability Watch.
Rebuilding Ground Zero: Long-term Costs of Short-term Planning Sep 10, 2008
The haste to develop Ground Zero after 9/11 has led to delays, mistakes and missed opportunities. Tom Angotti looks back at a flawed process. By Tom Angotti.
Climate Change Could Threaten a Green Willets Point Aug 14, 2008
Over the objections of many in the community, the Bloomberg administration plans to build the city's first green neighborhood at Willets Points. But climate change could wash it all away. By Melissa Checker.
How the City Has Reduced Soot Jul 03, 2008
A series of measures have reduced soot in the city, so much so that the metropolitan area may soon meet federal standards for this type of air pollution for the first time ever. Rich Kassel reports on what's happened -- and what still needs to be done. By Rich Kassel.
The Past and Future of Sustainability Jun 09, 2008
Will be mayor's long-term plan for a greener city survive and help create a sustainable city? Hunter College professor Tom Angotti discusses how the mayor can improve the odds. By Tom Angotti.
A Community Plan for the 'Highway to Nowhere' May 29, 2008
By Melissa Checker.
A Smoother Ride for Cycling in the City May 27, 2008
To mark spring and National Bike Month, Rich Kassel celebrates what the city is doing to promote cycling and looks at what else it could do. By Rich Kassel.
More Stories from Gotham Gazette...
- A Smoother Ride for Cycling in the City (May 2008)
- Making Black Cars Green (Apr 2008)
- A More Secure Way to Feed to City (Apr 2008)
- Blocking the Sun: Solar in the City (Apr 2008)
- Reclaiming the City's Abandoned Land (Apr 2008)
- An Unknown Urban Forest (Apr 2008)
- Cleaning Up a Creek (Apr 2008)
- Is the Long-term Sustainability Plan Sustainable? (Apr 2008)
- Bridging New York's Transit Gap (Apr 2008)
- Jumpstarting the Greenways System (Apr 2008)
- Making Zero Waste Part of the Plan (Apr 2008)
- As City Grows, Affordable Housing Shrinks (Apr 2008)
- The Need for a Parks Plan (Apr 2008)
- Reclaiming New York's Blighted Waters (Apr 2008)
- Street Closures and the Battle of Prince Street (Apr 2008)
- A City by the Sea -- or Under It? (Mar 2008)
- Concerns Grow but the Grass Doesn't (Feb 2008)
- The Race to Develop a Toxic Waterway (Feb 2008)
- Next Steps for Congestion Pricing (Jan 2008)
- Setting Standards for Green Neighborhoods (Jan 2008)
- Creating People-Friendly Streets (Nov 2007)
- Breathing Easier in 2030 and Beyond (Nov 2007)
- Greening City Schoolyards (Nov 2007)
- Cleaning Up New York’s Buildings (Oct 2007)
- Storm Warnings (Sep 2007)
- How Clean (or Dirty) Is Our Air? (Sep 2007)
- Making Coney Island Green (Sep 2007)
- State of Cycling (Aug 2007)
- Crumbling Systems (Aug 2007)
- Atlantic Yards and the Sustainability Test (Jun 2007)
- A Sustainability Test at Willets Point (May 2007)
- Will the Critics Kill Congestion Pricing? (May 2007)
- Debating a Greener Future (May 2007)
- Passing the ‘Do-Ability’ Test (May 2007)
- Making Growth Work for All New Yorkers (May 2007)



