Hyperlocal settings frame larger phenomena including stormwater management, the politics of place names, ersatz infrastructure, the tyranny of private property, and other signs of the never-ending change that characterizes the city.

What makes an inclusive museum? Art institutions are reassessing their buildings and their budgets to meet the moment.

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

Architectural adaptations create space for prayer for New York City's growing Muslim communities, transforming townhouses and apartments into more sacred precincts.

From video-enabled visual interpretation to 3D audio effects, smartphone wayfinding apps have a lot to offer Blind users. But these new features are no substitute for public infrastructure — digital or otherwise — that accounts for nonvisual navigation of the built environment.

From small and ubiquitous markers to massive bespoke steel numerals, this longstanding Greenpoint signage company helps New Yorkers navigate the city.

The city oversees an experiment: Can new signage and instructions improve experiences in New York’s busiest criminal courthouse?

On Allen Street, "mall-terations” attest to the way an art intervention can foster a sense of transformative possibility and community involvement in the design and programming of public space.

Bryan Bell, founder of Design Corps, invites young designers to design and build a project in the public interest, from found materials, in two days.