DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York
Thursday, December 8 at 6:30 pm
Urban by Nature: Healing the Landscape/Architecture Divide in NYC

Nowhere is the divide between nature and culture, country and city seemingly more stark than in New York City, where concrete, glass, and steel long ago tamped down the native flora and fauna of Manhattan. How can architecture and landscape architecture, themselves the product of the nature/culture divide, help mend this physical and philosophical rift?

Join landscape and urban designer Diana Balmori and architect Joel Sanders, co-authors of Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture (Monacelli, 2011), along with Geoff Manaugh, co-director of Studio-X NYC, for a discussion of New York City’s attempts (both successes and failures) to integrate the natural world into the city; the role that potential collaborations between landscape architecture and architecture in New York City can play; and what this all means for urban sustainability and the city’s future. Co-sponsored by the Design Trust for Public Space and Van Alen Institute.

This special program is being offered to DART subscribers at the half-off MCNY member's price of $6 when you contact 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org (enter promotion code DART1208). If you phone, just mention DART and your tickets will be held for you. Please do not reply to this email.

The Museum of the City of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 103^rd Street.
By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street.
By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 104th Street. 212.534.1672.

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