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

A new Crown Heights bookshop is a cipher for conflicting feelings of ambivalence, betrayal, and belonging

Are Bed-Stuy secrets for me to know and keep?

Large-scale public sculptures by Scott Burton have traveled from a corporate lobby to a Queens art center, but they are still in search of a forever home. Can their meanings endure in a new frame?

Stories of making home and community care from co-ops and lofts to adjoined brick houses and wood paneled basements

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.

New books chronicle US suburbs' divergence from their mythical origin scenes of verdant lawns and white picket fences — and detail how social struggles have always been part of their story.

Reported from the imaginations of those on the front lines of New York City's housing struggles, a newspaper from the future brings tidings of homes for all.

Geologic processes, local histories, and centuries of labor converge on a project suggesting new possibilities of reuse.

A long-term, community-based project brings critical knowledge about risks of contamination and engages local industries as partners in preparedness in the wake of Sandy. But extreme weather is not the only threat to vulnerable businesses.