Images of public housing interiors decorated with love and care preserve family memories and public history, and document style as an act of resistance.

To temporarily transform public space, Street Lab's lending library of outdoor furniture is designed to stand up to regular travel, extreme heat, and children's imaginations.

Workers across the building trades talk about what it takes to construct a just transition to a sustainable economy.

Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.

Geologic processes, local histories, and centuries of labor converge on a project suggesting new possibilities of reuse.

Where a controversial sculpture stood, a monument to Harriet Tubman offers a new narrative and new directions for creating sites of collective memory.

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

Wite-Out never really works as intended.

Banned from residences for more than half a century, lead paint still poisons thousands of children a year in New York City. Who is responsible for ensuring healthy homes for all?

The balance between New York City's public and private pools has shifted dramatically in recent decades. Why has so much city swimming retreated into towers or behind fences?