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Turning the Tide

Turning the Tide

Where can queer and trans community flourish, if not at Riis Beach? Yet current plans for its future don't account for the people it has sustained for decades.

Dean Labowitz

Landscape Orientation

An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.

Sarah Nicholls

God’s Garage

It's complicated inside New York City's 99 cent stores, where creativity and exploitation coexist.

Gloria Lau and Daphne Lundi

New Conversations: Critical Directions

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Home Schooling

Home Schooling

For fifteen years and counting at a free people's urbanism school in Orange, New Jersey, the city itself is a university, and a university is an advocate for community repair.

Molly Rose Kaufman and Aubrey Murdock

Mesh Together

A community-led initiative offers a low-cost alternative to corporate internet service providers. How far can their team of volunteers expand the network?

Juan Sebastián Moreno, Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, and Mia Winther-Tamaki

An Extremely Normal Architecture Office

Workers at Bernheimer Architecture share how and why they organized their union, and how friends and colleagues can build collective power, too.

Bernheimer Architecture Union, Andrew Daley, and Joshua McWhirter
Remediation as Industrial Succession: Powerhouse Arts

Perched above the Gowanus Canal, a newly opened art fabrication facility builds physically and metaphorically on the area’s history.

Remediation as Industrial Succession: Powerhouse Arts • Mariana Mogilevich, Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, and Lena Hoplamazian

Well-Placed

In the face of exclusion and displacement, how do communities mobilize urban space for mental health and collective wellbeing?

Well-Placed
Minding the Gaps

Historic injustice and the traumas of the pandemic have had profound impacts on New Yorkers' mental health. What kind of spaces and policies can support wellbeing where it's hardest to find?

Rebecca Hayes Jacobs and Michael McRae • May 17, 2023
Well-Placed
On the Up and Up

A joyful, accessible swing set promises a high-flying experience for people of many abilities. Can it also clear the bureaucratic hurdles that hamper exciting inclusive designs?

Asma Neblett and Waqas Jawaid • Dec 07, 2022
Well-Placed
Clinical Trials

A bygone experiment in community-focused mental healthcare — rooted in Harlem and the life experiences of its Black population — still holds valuable lessons for making “the good life,” and good feelings, truly accessible to all.

Jessica Fletcher and Helena Najm • Jul 06, 2022
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