TOPIC
Maintenance
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.
The Midnight Shift
A small task force listens in on an obscure city soundtrack to maintain a century-old water system.
Networked Nursery
Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
More Than Skin Deep
Renovated facades provide a window into existential questions for the future of New York City’s public housing.
News from Home
Reported from the imaginations of those on the front lines of New York City's housing struggles, a newspaper from the future brings tidings of homes for all.
This Old House
New York City is responsible for the care of 23 centuries-old farmsteads and mansions. What do these historic properties owe present day New Yorkers?
A Union President
Organized labor navigates a changing climate as power plants transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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.
An Electrician
There is no shortage of work for a member of IBEW Local 3: shoring up building systems to withstand flooding and preparing for an electrification boom.