Environment
Two High School Activists
With school buildings ill-equipped to face the climate crisis, students advocate for retrofits and greener, healthier buildings.
Meet the 2024-2025 New City Critics Fellows
New City Critics fellows — architects, journalists, artists, a city planner and a rapper among them — will be training a critical gaze on New York City over the next nine months.
Long Island is Bugging Me
A disquisition into the urban/suburban and human/insect divides, and how people might come together when their surroundings are planned to keep them apart.
How to Map New York City
A lot of art and a little science went into representing fifteen years of Urban Omnibus stories on a map of New York City.
Everybody Should Be Honored
A rare combination of collective art project, community celebration, and environmental protest, the Hunts Point Fish Parade honors residents of the Bronx neighborhood and mobilizes them in the fight for its future.
Building Solidarity
Workers across the building trades talk about what it takes to construct a just transition to a sustainable economy.
Call for Applications: New City Critics 2024
A fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities.
On Island Time
As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?
Living Legend
To reimagine the Cross Bronx Expressway, and redress damage it has wrought for generations, we have to see the corridor clearly as it is today.
Building Out of a Tight Spot
An architect faces New York City's housing crisis and climate crisis, one building at a time.