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.

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.

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.

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.