Neighborhood

After half a century as a sanctuary for Indigenous people in New York City, the American Indian Community House still seeks a permanent home.

What kind of bank can help secure New York neighborhoods' future? The same small banks that have been doing it all along.

As faith-based institutions struggle with a litany of real estate woes, the non-profit Bricks and Mortals is here to help find theologically-sound solutions.

Navigating multiple identities, homes, and professional cultures, where can Black urbanists locate an authentic, creative practice?

It's complicated inside New York City's 99 cent stores, where creativity and exploitation coexist.

Where can queer and trans community flourish, if not at Riis Beach? Yet current plans for its future don't account for the people it has sustained for decades.

For fifteen years and counting at a free people's urbanism school in Orange, New Jersey, the city itself is a university, and a university is an advocate for community repair.

On the voids storms and plans leave behind, and what we do with them.

Facing both urgent land use challenges and growing skepticism of public processes, a new unit for community planning is finding creative ways to engage people in shaping their neighborhoods and the city as a whole.

As redevelopment and electrification push them into the realm of history, unexpected social patterns still reveal themselves at the pumps.