A new video from Urban Omnibus explores life in five New York neighborhoods, delving into the daily interactions between people and the built environment.
The video "explores a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner's Harbor, Downtown Brooklyn, and Chelsea. While the image of the city –- and the perception of change - often references the urban scale of the skyline, the experience of the city emerges from daily interactions with the built environment at the scale of the neighborhood: the ways the physical city shapes how we live, work, play and move. "
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