For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood.

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

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

In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.

Battles for inclusion and exclusion in the life of the city more often end in stand-offs than in skirmishes.

The city's plans call for new borough jails to replace those at Rikers. A set of drawings examines land uses in the boroughs' civic centers to consider: Can New Yorkers accept jails as neighbors?

Frank Greene and Kenneth Ricci discuss the changing paradigms of half a century of justice architecture and what we should ask — and expect — from courts and jails.

Hidden in Central Park, the remains of a 19th century reservoir that fell out of fashion.

Integration without gentrification? Self-determination without segregation? Who has the power to determine Harlem’s future?

Four tales of the cities that arise from moral and environmental disaster. Can we ever really start anew?