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Activism

Community House is There for You

After half a century as a sanctuary for Indigenous people in New York City, the American Indian Community House still seeks a permanent home.

New City Critics

Building Worlds In-Between

Navigating multiple identities, homes, and professional cultures, where can Black urbanists locate an authentic, creative practice?

An Extremely Normal Architecture Office

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

New City Critics

Utopia is a Vacant Lot in Rockaway

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

Something Better Than Nothing

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

Mobilizing Support

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

Street Ballet Opera

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

Cleaning Up?

Getting to Zero

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?

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Grassroots Biorepair: Smiling Hogshead Ranch

Alternate Routes

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