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2026
NYC Urban Forest Plan
NYC Urban Forest Plan
Shaped by citywide analysis and cross-agency collaboration, the Urban Forest Plan is New York City’s first comprehensive strategy to equitably expand and care for its tree canopy.
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2024
District 15 Diversity Plan Evaluation & Reflection
District 15 Diversity Plan Evaluation & Reflection
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.
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2024
WXY NYC Projects
WXY NYC Projects
WXY has begun compiling a spatial record of all of our work in New York City to date, classified by project type.
2024
NYC District 3 Schools
NYC District 3 Schools
WXY designed and developed a website for NYC DOE D3 to connect communities with their schools
2023
Meatpacking District Western Gateway Plan
Meatpacking District Western Gateway Plan
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.
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2023
Century Foundation Segregation Index
Century Foundation Segregation Index
WXY partnered with researchers and the Century Foundation to develop a dashboard that tracks segregation patterns between and within school district lines.
2022
Rogers Cultural Plan
Rogers Cultural Plan
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."
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2021
Davenport 2030: A Resilient City
Davenport 2030: A Resilient City
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.
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2020
Keeping the Tables Turning: Strategies for Repurposing Outdoor Space for Restaurants in COVID-19
Keeping the Tables Turning: Strategies for Repurposing Outdoor Space for Restaurants in COVID-19
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.
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2019
Cities and Civic Digital Spaces Workshop Report
Cities and Civic Digital Spaces Workshop Report
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.
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2018
Village of Tarrytown Comprehensive Plan
Village of Tarrytown Comprehensive Plan
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.
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2017
Architect d.b.a.: On Re-defining the Roles of the Architect Today
Architect d.b.a.: On Re-defining the Roles of the Architect Today
Architect d.b.a.: On Redefining the Roles of the Architect Today explores how architects are expanding beyond traditional roles to tackle social, environmental, and economic challenges, emphasizing innovation in urbanism, sustainability, and community engagement. WXY Principal Adam Lubinsky authored the first chapter, “Big Dreams in a Post-Master Planning World.”
2017
North Brooklyn Brownfield Opportunity Area Study
North Brooklyn Brownfield Opportunity Area Study
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.
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2016
Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures
Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures
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.
2015
Accommodating Garage Orphans
Accommodating Garage Orphans
This report outlines strategies for charging solutions for 'garage orphans,' tailored to diverse urban contexts like Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, with an adaptable methodology for broader application.
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2014
The New Rutgers Gardens A Practical Guide
The New Rutgers Gardens A Practical Guide
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. 
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2013
EVSE Cluster Analysis: Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Support Study
EVSE Cluster Analysis: Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Support Study
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. 
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2013
Brooklyn Tech Triangle
Brooklyn Tech Triangle
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.
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2012
EV-Ready Codes for the Built Environment
EV-Ready Codes for the Built Environment
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.
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2012
Assessment of Current EVSE and EV Deployment: Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Support Study
Assessment of Current EVSE and EV Deployment: Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Support Study
This report analyzes patterns of electric vehicle (EV) ownership and charging infrastructure across the Transportation and Climate Initiative region, offering insights into geographic, demographic, and policy influences, and highlighting areas with potential for increased EV adoption.
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2026
ADU for You Guidebook
ADU for You Guidebook
This guidebook is designed to help you understand, plan, and build an Ancillary Dwelling Unit (ADU), also known as an Accessory Dwelling Unit, on your property in New York City (the City).
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2024
Put Waste to Work
Put Waste to Work
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.
2024
Hudson Square BID New Connections
Hudson Square BID New Connections
The Hudson Square BID plan reimagines neighborhood streets and public spaces, using an interactive website to showcase economic and urban design opportunities.
2024
DUNEBOOK The “Greater Rockaway” Coastal Resilience Training Guide
DUNEBOOK The “Greater Rockaway” Coastal Resilience Training Guide
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.
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2024
BQE North and South: Safe, Sustainable, Connected
BQE North and South: Safe, Sustainable, Connected
This report presents design strategies to enhance safety, sustainability, and connectivity along the BQE, prioritizing pedestrian safety and resilience through community input and analysis.
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2023
Humanity Land
Humanity Land
Working closely with Habitat For Humanity leadership, our team developed an interactive game called Humanity Land to facilitate discussions around affordable housing development.
2023
Bennington College Adaptive Framework Plan
Bennington College Adaptive Framework Plan
The Bennington College Adaptive Framework Plan provides adaptable strategies for the college’s growth by focusing on circulation, landscape, and sustainability, while ensuring alignment with strategic goals and enhancing the historic campus.
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2021
Montgomery County Public Schools Districtwide Boundary Analysis Final Report
Montgomery County Public Schools Districtwide Boundary Analysis Final Report
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. 
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2020
Residential Carshare Study for the New York Metropolitan Area
Residential Carshare Study for the New York Metropolitan Area
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.
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2018
D15 Diversity Plan
D15 Diversity Plan
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.
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2018
Curb Enthusiasm: Deployment Guide for On-Street Electric Vehicle Charging
Curb Enthusiasm: Deployment Guide for On-Street Electric Vehicle Charging
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.
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2017
Sharing The City: Learning from the New York City Public Space Movement 1990-2015
Sharing The City: Learning from the New York City Public Space Movement 1990-2015
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.
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2017
Integrated Strategies to Address Emerging Freight and Delivery Challenges in NYC
Integrated Strategies to Address Emerging Freight and Delivery Challenges in NYC
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.
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2016
East Harlem Neighborhood Plan
East Harlem Neighborhood Plan
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.
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2014
The Queensway Plan
The Queensway Plan
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.
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2014
10 Steps To Creating A Conversation
10 Steps To Creating A Conversation
This workbook presents ten steps for transforming reports and data into interactive tools that help communities in Westchester shape sustainable development, visualize impacts transparently, and build a shared vision for inclusive growth."
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2013
The East River Blueway Plan
The East River Blueway Plan
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 
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2012
Creating EV-Ready Towns and Cities: A Guide to Planning and Policy Tools
Creating EV-Ready Towns and Cities: A Guide to Planning and Policy Tools
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.
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2011
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan
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.  
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2026
ADU for You Webtool
ADU for You Webtool
A new platform built by WXY helps homeowners navigate ADUs from zoning to construction.
2025
Greater Greenways: NYC Greenway Plan
Greater Greenways: NYC Greenway Plan
The Greater Greenways Plan is New York City’s blueprint for transforming its 506-mile greenway network from a fragmented system into a fully connected, equitable, and accessible network for cyclists and pedestrians across all five boroughs.
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2024
NYC Parking Regulations
NYC Parking Regulations
WXY developed a methodology to process and visualize all parking regulations for each curb segment in New York City.
2024
Relief on Route
Relief on Route
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.
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2024
DME Interactive Boundary Explorer
DME Interactive Boundary Explorer
The DME Interactive Boundary Explorer lets users examine current DC public school boundaries, propose new ones, and analyze their potential impacts.
2023
Electric Micromobility in New York City
Electric Micromobility in New York City
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.
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2022
Future of Cities & Shared Mobility in India
Future of Cities & Shared Mobility in India
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.
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2021
Hudson Square Streetscape Plan & COVID-19 Toolkit
Hudson Square Streetscape Plan & COVID-19 Toolkit
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.
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2020
New Milford Riverfront Renewal
New Milford Riverfront Renewal
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.
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2018
SU+RE: Sustainable + Resilient Design Systems
SU+RE: Sustainable + Resilient Design Systems
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.
2017
La Marqueta Conceptual Plan
La Marqueta Conceptual Plan
This brochure intends to memorialize a high-level conceptual plan for La Marqueta.
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2017
Open Space Dialogues: A New Persepective
Open Space Dialogues: A New Persepective
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.
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2017
Blue Dunes
Blue Dunes
Blue Dunes chronicles the design of artificial barrier islands developed to protect the Mid-Atlantic region of North America in the face of climate change. This book was co-authored by WXY Founding Principal Claire Weisz.
2015
Electric Vehicle Tourism in New York State
Electric Vehicle Tourism in New York State
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.  
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2014
NYC Green Loading Zones Study
NYC Green Loading Zones Study
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. 
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2014
We Build the City: New York City's Design + Construction Excellence Program
We Build the City: New York City's Design + Construction Excellence Program
Features a selection of the exemplary infrastructure, public realm and civic building projects developed under the Department of Design + Construction Excellence (D+CE) program. 
2013
Sunset Park BOA Study
Sunset Park BOA Study
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.
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2012
Siting and Design Guidelines for Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment
Siting and Design Guidelines for Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment
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. 
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2012
Civic Action
Civic Action
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. 
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2010
Fordham Plaza Conceptual Master Plan
Fordham Plaza Conceptual Master Plan
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.
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