Urban agriculture today extends from small community gardens to commercial hydroponics. New York City seeks to cultivate its many benefits.

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.

For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood.

Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.

50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing?

Nearly six years after Sandy flooded basements and uprooted trees, Red Hook Houses is still in recovery. But designers from KPF and OLIN see a future brighter than survival, when infrastructure combines with art and the landscape rises above the waterline.

In our seventh Brass Tacks discussion, Rasmia Kirmani-Frye, President of the Fund for Public Housing, leveled with us on public housing’s unique role in the city and the challenges NYCHA must face.

Twelve students, six proposals, three sites: budding urban designers and architects re-envision New York City public housing.

Oksana Mironova documents varied approaches to City-led redevelopment in Lincoln Square and the West Side Urban Renewal Area and calls for an evolution of contemporary rezonings to prioritize the preservation of existing communities.

In an excerpt from the new book Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy, Nicholas Dagen Bloom challenges the assumption that high-rise public housing is fundamentally unmanageable by examining the history and vital importance of NYCHA’s dedicated maintenance staff.