Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, Part 2

What if one neighborhood were a place where the creativity that marks city life was championed?

As Awake As Possible: A Walk with Jon Cotner

A writer muses on poetry, neighborliness and waking up to the city around us while strolling through Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park.

Urban Design Week

IfUD's Anne Guiney tells us what to expect from an upcoming weeklong festival celebrating New York's public realm and showing how design can make it better.

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort

Six of the minds behind the New York installment of an international traveling laboratory for urban experimentation discuss the theme of comfort in urban space.

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman

"It is the ultimate virtue for architecture in an urban context to create or activate the public domain."

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Charles Montgomery

"Comfort is an infinitely relative commodity, and thus a marker of status."

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Maria Nicanor

"We asked for a space in which we could do everything and anything."

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Omar Freilla

"Most of us live in our own little bubbles. We know the world that we walk in every single day."

Montage City

Three architecture students share videos that poetically explore Coney Island, Willets Point and the Brooklyn Bridge.