Housing
Make Yourself at Home
Three researchers explore how queer, Black, and undocumented communities subvert and transcend dominant norms and forms of housing in New York City.
A Bigger Picture
Piecing together land use laws from coast to coast, the National Zoning Atlas illustrates the need for reform.
Building Out of a Tight Spot
An architect faces New York City's housing crisis and climate crisis, one building at a time.
Queens Close Up
A half century of immigration has continuously layered new urban forms on an otherwise unremarkable landscape.
Transit Oriented
New construction along elevated train lines brings an unprecedented degree of intimacy between private homes and workplaces and passengers in a 24-hour transit system.
A Building Superintendent
At a West Village Co-Op, the resident manager gets the building — and its residents — ready for rising waters and new climate mandates.
An Electrician
There is no shortage of work for a member of IBEW Local 3: shoring up building systems to withstand flooding and preparing for an electrification boom.
Accounting for Community
What kind of bank can help secure New York neighborhoods' future? The same small banks that have been doing it all along.
Something Better Than Nothing
A half-century of experiments in private sector solutions to urban problems has brought mixed results and exacerbated inequality. How did we get here?