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New City Critics

Call for Applications: New City Critics 2025

The Power Issue

A newspaper from the future imagines how New Yorkers defeat fascism, defend public power, electrify everything, and protect each other from flooding.

Home Valuation

New stories from Mitchell-Lama co-ops and the LA Tenants Union narrate the housing crisis as a struggle for control, and over the true meaning of a home.

New City Critics

Main Character Energy

Since the 1970s, citrus-hued seats in L-shaped arrangements have offered commuters a warm embrace. Where will subway riders find romance when the Tang-toned seats go?

Romantic Urbanism

Finding Love in a Hopeless Place

An invitation to think and make cities through the lens of love and care

Romantic Urbanism

Love and Longing in Paratransit

The largest transportation system in the country for people with disabilities, New York City's unreliable Access-A-Ride also brings unexpected social connections.

Romantic Urbanism

Full House

Stories of making home and community care from co-ops and lofts to adjoined brick houses and wood paneled basements

More Than Skin Deep

Renovated facades provide a window into existential questions for the future of New York City’s public housing.

Who Plans?

Over more than two decades, Hester Street expanded means and methods by which New Yorkers might shape their city. What does the nonprofit's demise mean for the practices of community planning and engagement in the future?