At the Black Zine Fair, now in its third year, the power of DIY publications as movement- and city-building technologies is on display.

How have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return?

A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support.

After half a century as a sanctuary for Indigenous people in New York City, the American Indian Community House still seeks a permanent home.

With origins in a massive underground oil spill, the new Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center is seeding future generations of neighborhood activists.

From face masks to diaries, institutions are collecting artifacts from daily life under COVID-19. One itinerant museum has preserved letters from landlords to tenants for posterity.

A cookbook. A windmill blade. A bilingual demolition manual. Beyond the city’s stock of resident-controlled, low-income co-ops, the remarkable history of New York’s self-help housing movement lives on in the archives of the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board.

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

We seek a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers.

In the thorny thicket of housing problems, from cost to supply to quality, what roles can architects play? Architects Susanne Schindler, Jared Della Valle, and Deborah Gans offer possibilities.