Series

An exploration of what it means to live in, build on, and design for a city of pervasive toxicity.

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

Exploring sites of public and private remembrance in New York City.

We’ve grown used to things being strange. And to things being very familiar. A series of short texts by architect and writer Neena Verma on the ins and outs of our whereabouts.

In short audio features, we check in with urbanists of various stripes to hear what they are doing and how they are learning from the entangled crises of 2020.

Examining the points of abrasion in the so-called smart city: where code meets concrete and where algorithms encounter forms of intelligence that aren’t artificial.

As designers and urbanists engage with LGBTQ+ identity, what role do gender and sexuality play in the preservation, design, and management of urban space today?

An examination of the pervasive and often overlooked infrastructure of criminal justice in New York and the spaces that could serve a more just city.

The city’s archivists, curators, and collectors pull out some of their favorite things, revealing multiple metropolises, imagined, expired, and ever-present.

Photographers document the transformation of a Staten Island landfill into parkland. A long term collaboration with NYC Parks and the Freshkills Park Development Team.

New Yorkers working outside the public eye to address the city’s daily needs and craft its future.

A snapshot of the urbanist titles that turn our gears.

A look at how pedal-pushing can redefine urban space. Guest-edited by SLO Architecture.

Community organizers give a window into the city they want and the work they’re doing to get there.

Photographer Stanley Greenberg’s monthly dispatches trace the myriad paths of the city’s infrastructural networks in great breadth and close detail.

A series of opinion pieces in which Vishaan Chakrabarti casts key current events as rallying cries in his evolving argument for urban density, for a Country of Cities.

What happens when cultural uses cluster and creative practitioners collaborate in the service of their neighborhoods.

A suite of short videos intended to offer a poetic peek behind the scenes of some of the complex systems that enable New York City to function.

Reports from a series of informal conversations with scholars and experts engaging complicated topics in housing policy, hosted by The Architectural League.

Conversations with public servants illuminate the complex workings of city government and how local agencies shape the physical and lived experience of the city.

Student research and propositions from design studios with real-world implications.

The Architectural League’s long-term investigation into architectural typologies that have come to be seen as outdated, stagnant, or obsolete.