As police personnel and machinery have settled into New York City schools, the line between school discipline and criminal punishment has become blurry.

In post-bankruptcy Detroit, planner Maurice Cox and his interdisciplinary team are making vacancy an asset, revitalizing through preservation, and listening to residents who know the city the best.

For doctors trying to provide mental health care to people who are incarcerated or detained by the New York City Department of Corrections, city jails pose a challenge — and provide an opportunity.

The NYPD vaunts crime mapping technologies from CompStat maps to a vast networked surveillance infrastructure. Who benefits?

28 maps track the networks of consultancy through which CompStat's architects spread the gospel — often for a tidy fee.

In London, as in New York, forces of development and displacement threaten nightlife spaces of significance for the LGBTQ+ community. How can municipal governments help?

A huge range of emergent technologies give police new ways to gather data and surveil. What's on the market?

For decades, city governments have pledged to clear neighborhood streets of crime and police abuse in the same stroke. But can community policing deliver on its promises?

How BetaNYC builds the tools community boards need for the 21st century.

A recently uncovered album reveals some of New York City parks' least exposed precincts — their public bathrooms.