Urban design | A Journey through NYC religions

What can a child’s playground teach us about Viking religion in New York City?

by Tony Carnes | May 18, 2024 | Gardens, Norwegians, Sunset Park, Urban design | 0 |

The religious history of Norwegians in New York City has hardly been written upon. There is so...

February 20, 1849 NYC’s fleet of floating churches adds Episcopal boat

by Journey | Feb 20, 2023 | Evangelical Protestants, Norwegians, Scandanavians, Urban design | 0 |

Did you know that NYC used to have a fleet of floating churches? Floating Church of Our Saviour....

Central Park: the largest religious art work in New York City, Part 2. Series: God in NYC gardens

by Tony Carnes | Apr 27, 2022 | Art & Faith, Gardens, Manhattan, Retros, Urban design | 16 |

In 1858 Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux started their design of Central Park. Olmsted was particularly taken by theologian Horace Bushnell.

Olmsted Bicentennial Today! Central Park: the largest religious artwork in the city, Part 1. Series: God in NYC Gardens

by Tony Carnes | Apr 26, 2022 | Art & Faith, Gardens, Manhattan, Retros, Urban design | 25 |

Central Park is “a specimen of God’s handiwork” that its designer Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) said would heal “the hundreds of thousands of tired workers” of their “vital exhaustion,” “nervous irritation” and “constitutional depressions.”

JOURNEY TV NOW! JON BUTLER ON GOD IN GOTHAM

by Journey | Dec 13, 2020 | Books, Journey TV Episodes 2020, Manhattan, Real Estate, Retros, Scholars, Urban design | 0 |

Classic Jon Butler reads: Awash in a Sea of Faith. Christianizing the American People (1990/1992);...

Our neighbors’ houses are on fire! OpEd

by Tony Carnes | Jun 24, 2020 | African American, Crime, Op-ed, Race & faith, Urban design, West Harlem | 0 |

This is a big fire and won’t be put out immediately; all hands on deck! Remember George Floyd!

God Created the Immigrants HD Video

by Tony Carnes | Jun 25, 2018 | Art & Faith, Bronx, Evangelical Protestants, Faith-based social services, Urban design | 2 |

Street art @Iglesia Evangelica Espanola del Bronx, founded 1941

Jane Jacobs — the woman who stopped the bulldozing of Washington Square Park

by Tony Carnes | Apr 29, 2017 | Democratic good, Urban design, West Village | 0 |

Jacobs’ view of street religion

God’s Plan: A Podcast on Faith & Postsecular City Planning

by Tony Carnes | Dec 28, 2016 | Op-ed, Postsecular City, Urban design | 3 |

The connections between faith and city planning are undeniable. Faith-based groups rebuild areas after disasters, they develop affordable housing plans, and they help the poor. Additionally, social movements that have profoundly changed society, like the civil rights movement, were guided by faith. Yet planning education generally does not deal with faith.