When it comes to building schools, a little-known entity with radical roots has had an outsize effect on the city’s skyline. How can the Educational Construction Fund adapt an experimental ethos to changing times?

To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source.

Over a decade in his Queens neighborhood, a photographer sees constant change.

Density and displacement aren’t just problems for the living.

Buildings are responsible for two thirds of greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. Can tenants, landlords, and environmentalists finally get together to make them more efficient?

Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.

In London, as in New York, forces of development and displacement threaten nightlife spaces of significance for the LGBTQ+ community. How can municipal governments help?

Rising rents mark the “straightening” of gayborhoods like Greenwich Village. What role does queer presence play in cycles of urban redevelopment and displacement?

In Long Island City, stunted electrical poles mark some of the city's most contested real estate.

Community boards promise local democracy, but it takes more to translate neighborhood visions into reality.