The largest controlled building demolition in history, currently underway in Midtown Manhattan, puts front and center the ethical and environmental consequences of architecture’s disposable values. Could today's detritus be the building blocks of the future?

As building technologies from doorbells to thermostats claim to become ever “smarter,” how do they mesh with the social life of shared spaces?

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?

From Manhattan to the banks of the Yangtze River, photographers index both the ordinary and uncanny effects of urbanization.

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

This is what democracy looks like: not only public squares, but office buildings. In the Lower East Side, the Peace Pentagon was the source point for four decades of resistance.

Getting to the bottom of a mysterious streak of purple cropping up along Manhattan’s eastern edge.

Whither housing? Ask the houses. In four recent books, home is where the histories of housing policy and politics makes themselves known.

Formerly incarcerated people reassemble their lives at the Castle, a singular housing facility and a supportive home base created by The Fortune Society.

A new Monument to Gay and Transgender People merges strength and fragility, as well as communion and isolation, by the banks of the Hudson River.