Policy
Radicals and Real Estate
This is what democracy looks like: not only public squares, but office buildings. In the Lower East Side, the Peace Pentagon was the source point for four decades of resistance.
Seeding Stability
To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source.
Building Consensus
Buildings are responsible for two thirds of greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. Can tenants, landlords, and environmentalists finally get together to make them more efficient?
Country of Tenants
Questions of ownership, affordability, and political representation converge in current struggles over rent regulation.
Do You Remember How It Was?
Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.
Our Fair City
50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing?
Reentry: Start Here
People returning to city life after time in prison will soon be able to find help at some branch libraries. How can designers help librarians create life-saving connections?
Haul Together
With New York City on the verge of reorganizing the private sanitation industry, union organizer Allan Henry connects the dots between street safety, worker rights, and environmental impacts.
Where Corrections Meets Connections
People trying to stay connected to their loved ones in New York's jails and prisons must travel great distances and navigate intimidating rules and requirements.
Where School Meets Prison
As police personnel and machinery have settled into New York City schools, the line between school discipline and criminal punishment has become blurry.