David Leven and Derek Porter discuss how their architecture and lighting design students collaborated to reimagine access to and use of this complex waterfront site.

Diana Balmori shares a flexible and inexpensive design scheme - complete with public engagement a la Twitter - to create street furniture and plantings that reimagine the public space of Gansevoort Plaza.

What are the social, physical, and environmental implications of uncapping fire hydrants?

Sandro Marpillero, Linda Pollak and Margie Ruddick share perspectives on their transformation of Queens Plaza, recasting the relationship between ecology, art and infrastructure.

Artist and longtime creek explorer George Trakas shows us around the Nature Walk he designed at Newtown Creek.

Lisa Chamberlain explores the Forum for Urban Design's interdisciplinary design competition that aims to make Red Hook the most bicycle-friendly neighborhood in New York City.

A look at the 2008 ideas competition launched by the Design Trust for Public Space and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition to generate new visions for New York’s “greatest unrealized asset.”

Ann Buttenwieser, founder of the Neptune Foundation, talks about the unconventional waterfront amenity she helped bring to Hunts Point, the only community district in New York City without access to a public pool.

Jonathan Kirschenfeld, architect, talks about the unconventional waterfront amenity he helped bring to Hunts Point, the only community district in New York City without access to a public pool.