Workers at Bernheimer Architecture share how and why they organized their union, and how friends and colleagues can build collective power, too.

On the voids storms and plans leave behind, and what we do with them.

A half-century of experiments in private sector solutions to urban problems has brought mixed results and exacerbated inequality. How did we get here?

A harm reduction collective works to meet people who use drugs "where they're at," not just metaphorically, but geographically.

An ambitious new opera plumbs the humanity and contemporary relevance of two mythic figures of New York City: Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.

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?

A new guidebook locates residents’ struggles to make and remake New York City in the image of their own needs and desires.

Vito Battista’s journey from public architecture to right-wing politics is an echo of New York’s own cyclical, reactionary tides — and a reminder of how closely the city's politics are tied to the fate of its urban fabric.

After a historic oil spill and an unprecedented financial settlement, a Brooklyn community oversees its ecological repair.