Neighborhood

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.

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.

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

"The city can be likened to a living microbe."

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

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

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

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

Jana Leo, the author of Rape New York, a candid account of sexual assault, discusses how the ordeal changed her perspective on property neglect, systemic gaps and neighborhood transition.