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Planning

New City Critics

Notes from the Industrial Zone

New York was founded on industry. As e-commerce rewrites the supply chain, how are we protecting the small businesses left behind?

New City Critics

The Plaza Paradox

In the shadow of the Flatiron, a writer spends an hour conducting her own public space audit.

Designing Mamdani’s New York

At the start of a new mayoral administration promising an urban transformation, eight practitioners discuss architecture’s role in shaping the social democratic city.

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 Century of Cross Bronx Developments

Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.

Neither Here Nor There

Globally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens, has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, is it more unmoored than ever?

A Tentative Rollout

Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility.

This Is a Rehearsal

With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, a playwright considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?

Romantic Urbanism

Finding Love in a Hopeless Place

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