March was Women’s History Month: 31 days honoring women’s contributions, historic and contemporary, to society. As could be expected, the month was observed in part with a spate of dialogues, panel discussions, and symposia assessing gender equality and female achievement …

Currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art is an exhibition entitled Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream that explores “new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis.” Like Rising Currents before it (which proposed environmentally…

About four years ago, a latent pattern of unethical, self-interested and surreptitious decision-making reared its head to wreak havoc in the American housing market. Americans were living on a dream buoyed by false hope: we thought we could have it …

Now that summer heat has descended upon the city, you might be looking for an air conditioned spot to take respite — a movie theater, for example. This Friday kicks off the Brooklyn Film Festival, a week of independent …

On May 4-8th, the Festival of Ideas for the New City brought artists, designers, politicians and community organizers to downtown Manhattan, infusing the city with a commitment to creativity and dedication to place. Through a string of lectures, panels, workshops, a street fair and over a hundred art installations and openings of cultural projects, the Festival brought to mind a sensibility…

53rd Street on a weeknight evening is witness to a medley of pedestrians: midtown commuters bustling to the subway, visitors departing MoMA and tourists heading to ogle 5th Avenue storefronts. Most move briskly through the stretch between 5th and 6th …

Curating has become a ubiquitous cultural buzzword over the past couple years, ascribing thematic connections to just about anything that can be assembled. But Sunday night, when a crowd gathered at the Old School on Mott Street for the latest Moonlighter Presents installment, the evening took a refreshingly unthematic…

If all public meetings convened by acronymed local agencies benefited from the voice of talented thespians, local politics might be more transparent, and definitely more entertaining.

The Civilians, an investigative theater troupe, takes social debate to the stage through …

At the outset of Cities, a conversation on the future of urbanism hosted by Columbia’s Studio-X, moderator Mark Wigley toasted to forging new friendships in a coming era of dynamic, if uncertain, city design. Considering the cumulative intellectual…