Six of the minds behind the New York installment of an international traveling laboratory for urban experimentation discuss the theme of comfort in urban space.

"It is the ultimate virtue for architecture in an urban context to create or activate the public domain."

"The city can be likened to a living microbe."

"Comfort is an infinitely relative commodity, and thus a marker of status."

"We asked for a space in which we could do everything and anything."

"Most of us live in our own little bubbles. We know the world that we walk in every single day."

Three architecture students share videos that poetically explore Coney Island, Willets Point and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Bronwyn Breitner and James Slade describe how their students reconsidered one of our most familiar architectural spaces, the residence, in the context of the Bronx's Lower Concourse.

A new undergraduate major in urban design prompts us to sketch a history of urban design education and to discuss its future with the new program's director, Victoria Marshall.