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WXY has begun compiling a spatial record of all of our work in New York City to date, classified by project type.

Features a selection of the exemplary infrastructure, public realm and civic building projects developed under the Department of Design + Construction Excellence (D+CE) program. 

In 2017, the Board of Trustees launched a planning process for a Comprehensive Plan that reflects changes in Tarrytown since 2007 and reorients the focus towards future growth. Built on public input, the plan articulates the community’s vision through goals and policies to guide decision-making across Village Boards, Committees, and Councils.

Funded by the State of New York, the QueensWay Plan explores converting land into a public park, informed by input from local communities through public meetings and workshops. This brochure focuses on six themes that define the vision, with maps highlighting key features and activity areas along the QueensWay.

The New Rutgers Garden: A Practical Guide outlines designs for a visitor center, a series of rethought gardens and structures, and a new circulation system as an innovative development plan for the Gardens. 

The East River Blueway Plan is an ambitious blueprint designed to re-imagine a stretch of Manhattan’s waterfront—from the Brooklyn Bridge to East 38th Street—while protecting the city from rising water levels and severe storms 

This guide offers practical frameworks for sustainable and resilient design in architecture, urban planning, and related fields, exploring strategies for creating adaptable buildings and systems that minimize their ecological footprint.

Guided by the community’s goals for Sunset Park, the team evaluated the area's physical, economic, and environmental conditions, leading to recommendations and strategies that address challenges and leverage assets for revitalization.

The purpose of these design guidelines is to identify and diagram key siting and design issues that are relevant to local governments as well as developers, homeowners, businesses, utility providers, and other organizations interested in best practices for EVSE implementation. 

The Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan establishes a planning and design framework for an open space amenity to revitalize a section of the Harlem River waterfront that has been derelict and inaccessible to the public for decades.  

Twenty leaders from the public space movement were interviewed to understand the shift towards public space from 1990 to 2015, supported by workshops with government, design, and civic leaders in 2016.

The cultural plan sets priorities for Rogers' Arts and Culture Division, focusing on public art, music, performing arts, wellness, and culinary arts. It serves as the first municipal cultural plan in Northwest Arkansas, outlining strategic initiatives for the next five years."

This report examines the feasibility of a carshare program using electric vehicles, focusing on deployment in residential markets, including LMI housing, with expertise from partners in New Rochelle, White Plains, and Yonkers.

This initiative sheds light on a pressing issue faced by many in the gig economy: the lack of accessible, safe, and clean restrooms. Our team collaborated on research and strategy to emphasize inclusive urban planning solutions that improve conditions for workers while fostering partnerships among businesses, government, and communities.

Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures explores the concept of collaborative city-making, focusing on how communities and designers can reshape urban spaces through localized, bottom-up approaches. By highlighting projects around the world, including WXY efforts, the book showcases innovative ways that citizens and professionals are reimagining urban development to create resilient, sustainable cities.

This campaign, developed in fall 2021 by the Center for Zero Waste Design and WXY, promotes equitable zero-waste strategies in buildings and public spaces. Together they also led the creation of the Zero Waste Design Guidelines, which compiled global best practices and engaged stakeholders to devise comprehensive waste reduction and management strategies.

The PlaNYC Getting Sustainability Done Report outlines New York City's comprehensive sustainability and resilience plan, focusing on reducing climate impacts, enhancing public health, and fostering equity. It highlights actionable strategies across energy, transportation, housing, and waste management to create a more sustainable and livable city by 2050.

This report summarizes research and interviews from NY4P, featuring insights from parks researchers, practitioners, real estate professionals, and community advocates. It highlights the importance of open space, challenges current development practices, and identifies ways to better support communities undergoing rezoning in advocating for parks.

WXY developed a methodology to process and visualize all parking regulations for each curb segment in New York City.

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact and potential benefits of Green Loading Zones (GLZs)—a policy solution to incentivize further electric truck adoption with the creation of curbside loading zones that are exclusively available to zero-emission commercial vehicles. 

This report focuses on North Brooklyn, analyzing conditions and identifying opportunities to make industrial uses more feasible and sustainable. Supported by a NY State grant program, it aids municipalities and community organizations in revitalizing brownfields and setting neighborhood priorities.

This plan reimagines the Housatonic Riverfront, connecting it to the historic Village Center through improved access, economic development, recreational opportunities, and new housing, transforming a formerly industrial area into a vibrant community space.

This report builds off of the analysis and engagement conducted during Phase 1 of the Districtwide Boundary Analysis, which is documented in the Interim Report published in March 2020. 

The Western Gateway Public Realm Vision Plan envisions a safer, more connected pedestrian area for New York’s Meatpacking District, linking its commercial core to the Hudson River waterfront, with insights from stakeholders and public agencies.

Keeping the Tables Turning is a playbook for restaurant owners, offering expert health guidance, ideas for re-organizing spaces for socially distant dining, and strategies for marketing initiatives and events.

This report examines the changing nature of freight deliveries, explores policy and physical solutions, and develops a quantitative approach to project future freight demand for better policy and management.

Working closely with Habitat For Humanity leadership, our team developed an interactive game called Humanity Land to facilitate discussions around affordable housing development.

The Streetscape Improvement Plan for Hudson Square aims to create an inviting public realm and enhance neighborhood connections, supporting economic recovery from COVID-19 by activating public spaces and aiding local businesses.

The Hudson Square BID plan reimagines neighborhood streets and public spaces, using an interactive website to showcase economic and urban design opportunities.

The Future of Cities & Shared Mobility in India Report, commissioned by Uber, explores the role of shared mobility in India's transport future, using survey data, expert insights, and Uber's geospatial analysis to assess policies, technologies, and trends in urban travel.

Using data drawn from eight cities of different sizes and types across the globe, this white paper considers how Uber’s business transformed during the pandemic and posits a series of new frontiers for the platform to consider looking forward. 

This conceptual plan reimagines Fordham Plaza as a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly public space and intermodal transit hub, with improved traffic flow, expanded plaza areas, and new amenities for enhanced community use.

This report takes a rigorous approach to identifying what types of places make sense for EVSE deployment in order to encourage EV ownership and usage. 

This report supports electric vehicle (EV) charging deployment by examining how building and electrical codes can either hinder or promote EV infrastructure, helping local and state practitioners identify and address code-related barriers to EV readiness.

This study examined the feasibility, business modeling, and potential environmental impacts for electric vehicle (EV)-based tourism in the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions of lower New York State.  

This white paper, commissioned by Uber and developed by WXY, highlights best practices for e-bike and e-scooter policy, covering safety, certified vehicles, charging solutions, and pathways to legal use, informed by research and stakeholder insights.

We developed the methodology and led the spatial analysis for EJNYC: A Study of Environmental Justice Issues in New York City, a groundbreaking report from the Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice that addresses environmental justice across the city.

The East Harlem Neighborhood Plan represents months of engagement and consensus-building, uniting local stakeholders to create a comprehensive vision for community development that will guide City policy and resources.

The “Greater Rockaway” Coastal Resilience Training Guide (the Dunebook) is a technical training manual used to support the work of RISE’s restoration stewards, including the Dune Squad, Shore Corps, staff members, consultants, and volunteers.

WXY designed and developed a website for NYC DOE D3 to connect communities with their schools

The DME Interactive Boundary Explorer lets users examine current DC public school boundaries, propose new ones, and analyze their potential impacts.

The D15 Plan Evaluation & Reflection report, funded by a NYS Integration Project grant, provides the first comprehensive review of District 15’s integration efforts. Conducted by WXY Studio, it combines DOE data with community feedback to assess the plan's implementation and impact.

Davenport 2030: A Resilient City is a visionary roadmap for a sustainable, active, and inclusive downtown, focused on enriching the public realm through arts, culture, and economic development, with input from Quad Citizens, policymakers, and community advocates.

The D15 Diversity Plan, shaped by a community-based process, addresses academic excellence, equity, and diversity at the district level. It builds on years of local advocacy, engaging the D15 community in conversations about race, class, and integration to develop comprehensive, collaborative solutions for school diversity.

Curb Enthusiasm provides a roadmap for a citywide pilot deployment of Level 2 charging stations across New York City, addressing market forces, policy imperatives, and physical conditions that will shape local EV infrastructure projects of this scale.

This guide helps local governments make their communities EV-ready by exploring five key policy tools: zoning, parking ordinances, codes, permitting, and partnerships, along with best practices for implementation.

Mindful of Mark di Suvero's and Isamu Noguchi's realized visions, four artists were charged to re-envision a discrete area of Long Island City in the publication Civic Action. This culmination of essays, contributions, diagrams, illustrations, images, and charrettes reveals the complexity of challenges ahead, what ideas emerged from the project, and how the four artists, along with their collaborators, address the compelling issues of our urban environment at this time. 

This report covers the Cities and Civic Digital Spaces workshop, which explored how physical public space design can inform digital spaces, highlighting parallels between urban and digital challenges, and raising key questions for better governance.

WXY partnered with researchers and the Century Foundation to develop a dashboard that tracks segregation patterns between and within school district lines.

This action plan and blueprint embrace the diverse applications of 21st-century technology and the evolving job opportunities it creates. With support from government and private partners, it aims to meet the needs of the new economy, ensuring residents find opportunities and tech firms find the right talent.