What happens when artists embed within city government? For ten years, New York’s Public Artists in Residence have been building bridges and breaking down walls between the civic and the public.

With the new mayor promising to deliver “community safety,” one well-established city program charts a path through new public spaces and long-needed repairs at the city’s most under-resourced NYCHA developments.

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

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.

Polluted and repressed, the buried streams of Flushing Creek will once again see the light of day.

Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.

The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. The story of the building closely tracks larger struggles to make a stable, secure home in the city.

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?

Renovated facades provide a window into existential questions for the future of New York City’s public housing.

Over more than two decades, Hester Street expanded means and methods by which New Yorkers might shape their city. What does the nonprofit's demise mean for the practices of community planning and engagement in the future?