Neighborhood

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.

"Who really looks up anyway?"

A half-century of experiments in private sector solutions to urban problems has brought mixed results and exacerbated inequality. How did we get here?

A harm reduction collective works to meet people who use drugs "where they're at," not just metaphorically, but geographically.

Wite-Out never really works as intended.

New projects are bringing more people and attention to the Rockaway Peninsula, but ten years after Hurricane Sandy, the work of building resilient infrastructure remains woefully incomplete.

An ambitious new opera plumbs the humanity and contemporary relevance of two mythic figures of New York City: Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.