Growing and Greening New York

Courtesy NYC Department of City Planning

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Growing and Greening New York

Opens Dec 11, 2008

Today 8 million New Yorkers daily get up, go out, and live their lives. By the year 2030, there will be a million more people living in New York City. And the city will have undergone a great transformation, becoming cleaner, greener, more responsible, and more robust--if the projections of PlaNYC2030 are correct, and if we take action on them now.

PlaNYC2030 is an ambitious blueprint for New York City as it confronts the prospect of continued population growth and the urgency of protecting the city’s natural environment to improve urban life. Its 127 proposals range from planting more trees to designing better power plants to cleaning up brownfields to building new parks and housing across the five boroughs. Together, they suggest how the city might plan for growth while confronting issues of livability and global climate change.

Growing and Greening New York will make the complexities of the plan vivid, compelling, and understandable to everyday New Yorkers by bringing its concerns to life on a human, individual scale. Growing and Greening New York will encourage public participation in the discussion of the essential challenge PlaNYC2030 poses:

How must New York and New Yorkers change to make a sustainable urban future possible?

Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City is generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Additional support comes from Con Edison, James G. Dinan and Elizabeth R. Miller, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Brenner Family Foundation, The Durst Organization, Nixon Peabody LLP, Allison Whipple Rockefeller, Tishman Speyer, Martin J. McLaughlin, Metro Fuel Oil Corporation, Josie Merck and Jim Stevenson, Mark M. Iger, Richard W. von Bargen, and Tap Into the City.

The Museum thanks exhibition co-chairs Hamilton F. Kean, Martin J. McLaughlin, and Allison Whipple Rockefeller for their leadership and generosity.