Design
Urbanist Portmanteau of the Day: Funderpass
This one should have been invented a while ago.
If there's one thing urbanists like more than redesigning a blighted area around an urban expressway, it's snazzy, made-up lingo.
So yesterday was a good day. The news broke that the New York City Department of Small Business Services had awarded a $75,000 grant to the Atlantic Avenue BID to transform the dark, empty stretch of Atlantic Avenue beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway into a funderpass. (Or, as it's sometimes spelled, F(underpass).)