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.

What's Growing?

Urban agriculture today extends from small community gardens to commercial hydroponics. New York City seeks to cultivate its many benefits.

The Green Shift

A Union President

Organized labor navigates a changing climate as power plants transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

The Green Shift

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.

A New Harvest

Herbs and berries are free for the picking along the Bronx River Foodway. But the public place for foraging is also a pathway to stronger connections with local ecologies and community self-determination.