The Urban Systems Lab talks about overlapping social vulnerabilities to climate change and COVID-19, and their efforts to gather and share the data that matters most in a complex and ever-shifting situation.

Following the trail of New York City’s municipal solid waste from curbside pickup to sites far beyond its borders, two artists document a system that benefits from low visibility as it dramatically extends the city’s footprint.

For more than half a century, real estate data has played a crucial role in struggles against housing discrimination and dispossession. But what information is needed now in the face of changing forms of speculation?

In co-located schools, sharing isn't just a lesson for the students. How do educators balance their institution’s needs with those of their neighbors?

When vastly different institutions are located in the same building, do students learn how to share, or how the city is profoundly unfair?

Rather than extractive economic development, the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative cultivates a vision of home-grown wealth that stays in the borough.

For an equal shot at competitive sports in New York City public high schools, students and teachers fight to untangle the knot of race and space.

An artist and a historian talk trees: What they mean, and what it takes to get city-dwellers to see them clearly.

To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source.

Drinking water is all around us, but just out of reach. Can simple tweaks to the city’s emergency infrastructure radically expand access to this precious resource?