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Health

New City Critics

Uber 911

With the exorbitant costs of healthcare, untrained rideshare drivers are increasingly forced to take on the role of emergency medical professionals.

New City Critics

What Water Wants

The low-lying Jewel Streets neighborhood, once coastal marshlands now cut off from the waterfront, is prone to extreme flooding. What happens if planners and advocates learn to go with the flow?

City Habitats

Waste Watering Holes

Bird watching at an unlikely urban oasis: the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

New City Critics

A Way Out of No Way

Contact with life’s sharper edges guides artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s quest to assist the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

New City Critics

The Hottest Club

A contemporary "bathhouse" draws on ancient traditions to heighten experience, but is untethered from the more convivial aspects of bathing culture.

The Future of Infrastructure and Place

What is the path forward to contend with historic and contemporary harms of urban highways across the country, and to honor the needs and desires of contemporary residents? Insights from a conversation on the Cross Bronx, the BQE, and the road to more just transportation infrastructures.

Life Beyond Line Items

To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. What spaces and methods can help us build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?

A Question About Tomorrow

As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. So what will it take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant?

Swimming Ahead

What if New York City’s public pools were open all year long?

Romantic Urbanism

Finding Love in a Hopeless Place

An invitation to think and make cities through the lens of love and care