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NYU Wagner Partners with NYC in “Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge”

Today the City of New York manages over 11,000 payphone kiosks – but the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize this powerful communications infrastructure, the City is hosting Reinvent Payphones, a public design challenge that seeks to rally urban designers, planners, technologists, and policy experts to create physical and/or virtual prototypes that imagine the future of payphones. NYU Wagner and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts are partnering with the Bloomberg administration to promote the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge to a wide range of talented and forward-thinking students and faculty in a number of local universities.

Have ideas on how New York City can reinvent payphones to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, accessible and informed city? Submit your prototype by February 18th and you could help to shape the City’s future.

NYU Students distribute solar lanterns to those affected by Hurricane Sandy

Students in an NYU Wagner/NYU Stern undergraduate class – “Practicum and Incubator for Social Innovation” – have connected with Sun Giant Energy to distribute solar lanterns to New Yorkers still living without electric power as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

Urban Mobility in the 21st Century

Rapid population growth in cities world-wide will lead to a shift in transportation from car ownership to a networked fleet of smaller, more efficient, sustainable shared vehicles, predicts Urban Mobility in the 21st Century, a report for the NYU BMW i Project on Cities and Sustainability prepared by Mitchell L. Moss, Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management at NYU Wagner and Hugh O’Neill, President and Founder of Appleseed.

Click here to view the report

Here’s NYU Wagner Moral Courage Project Director and Professor Irshad Manji speaking on CNNi about honor killings and culture

Here’s NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management Director and NYU Wagner Professor Mitchell Moss’ report on the cover of amNewYork from earlier this week! You can also read the story, “Sidewalk congestion is now a maddening crowd for midtown” here.

via viewfromthebalcony:

Check out @nyuwagner prof & @nyurudin dir @mossmitchell report on the cover of @amNewYork #nyu #nyc (Taken with Instagram at NJ Transit Rail Terminal)

Fostering Economic Growth in NYC: NYC Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio joined us at NYU Wagner to deliver a speech about economic issues facing New York City today.

DeBlasio is a member of the NYU alumni and has served as a public servant for over thirty years.

Here’s the current list of NYU Wagner faculty on Twitter:

Rogan Kersh: @rtkersh

Dan Smith: @dansmithphd

John Gershman: @jgershman

Mitchell Moss: @mossmitchell

Paul Smoke: @pmoshi

Irshad Manji: @IrshadManji

Karen Grepin: @karengrepin

Anthony Townsend: @anthonymobile

Beth Noveck: @bethnoveck

Sarah Durham: @BigDuckSarah 

Anthony Hiss: @tonyhiss

Richard Brodsky: @RichardBrodsky 

Robert Shrum: @BobShrum

Zhan Guo: @ZhanSportation 

Victor Rodwin: @VictorRodwin

Heleen Mees: @HeleenMees

Gara LaMarche: @garalog

Brian Elbel: @BrianElbel 

This fall, Foreign Policy contributing writer Heleen Mees will be teaching a new course for undergrads at NYU Wagner. The course, UPADM-GP 420, Managing Global Economic Crises: From the Great Recession to the EuroZone, will focus on financial crisis and globalisation, has no prerequisites and still has seats open.

To register for this course (or any of our undergrad courses, open to all schools):

• Head on over to Albert
• Click “Search” under Academics
• Check off the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in the School drop down menu
• Check off “Fall 2012” under Term.
• Click on the UG (aka undergrad) courses option: UG Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy (UPADM-GP).

“Emma Koenig’s So-Called Redacted Life” features NYU alumna Emma Koenig along with a report prepared by the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, one of NYU Wagner’s affiliated institutes.

Learn about her viral blog, her book out next month with Urban Outfitter’s biggest publisher and her pending deal to develop a television series.

Did we mention her brother is Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend?