How We Build and What Needs to Change Interview with Michael Eliason, Author of “Building for People: Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities” By Harry […]

Cape Cod's Bottle Battle Off the coast of Cape Cod (Joanna Moore) By Joanna Moore Eliminating disposables in Cape Cod won’t be a day at the b […]

Streets for Bikes – An Interview with Jon Orcutt By Joe Kusters Jon Orcutt has been involved in policy advocacy in New York for more than years, working for and with groups […]

Climate Justice Means (Finally) Repairing NYC’s Public Housing, But Challenges Persist East Harlem Skyline (Wikipedia Commons/Ajay Suresh) By Jilly Edgar Founded 90 years ago under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, the […]

Starting a Wave ENYCLT members meet for the anti-speculator summit. (Ivi Lewis) How Three Neighborhoods Utilize Community Land Trusts to Fight […]

Beyond the Asphalt, the River The planned extent of the Sheridan Expressway, highlighted in yellow, and the actual completed extent, in blue. (NYC Sheridan […]

Mama Joy Lives The Fight to Preserve Abolitionist History in Brooklyn By Emma McCauley On the Open House New York listing for their tour of […]

Op-Ed: Buffalo’s Marine Drive Apartments Have Survived a Long Road—Why Must It End? Buffalo Skyway and redevelopment area view (Serge Del Grosso, Jr.) By Serge Del Grosso, Jr. The saga of Buffalo’s Marine D […]

New York's Home Courts All photography and maps by Isabel Ozkan Jordan from across NYC. Handball’s Hold Over the Big Apple By Isabel Ozkan […]

Letter from the EditorTruly visionary planners and policymakers often dream of a future they may never witness. So, they spend the bulk of their careers […]

Letter from the EditorsThe idea of “Utopias and Dystopias,” the theme for this issue, is a preoccupation of most urban planners. Whether through tra […]

A World Without Robert Moses Adam J Bailey Love him or hate him, Robert Moses left a lasting impact on New York City’s built environment and politics. As […]

Backyard Commoning: Lessons from New York’s 1920s Garden City Experiments and Contemporary Retrofit Cohousing Jordan Engel Good fences make good neighbors, so the old proverb goes. That particular phrasing is attributed to Robert […]

From Bustling, Human-Scaled Streets to Mountaintop Ghost Towns: Exploring the Evolution of Medieval Italian Villages by Taylor Richards Medieval Italian “Comune” Liscia There’s been many urban design buzzwords circling the internet latel […]

Surviving NYC's Housing Programs By Katie Zhang Early in June, applications for Section 8 tenant-based vouchers in NYC opened up for one busy week so that […]

Queens-Topia: The Duality of New York’s Urban Spaces David Oke A great city is only as good as its infrastructure allows it to be. When one imagines great cities, many notable […]

What's So Gay About Gardening? Annie Deely Among horticulturalists, the term volunteer is frequently used to describe plants that grow on their own as opposed […]

Post-Dobbs, a Radical Web of  “Abortion Infrastructure” Springs Up Under, Across and Through Borders Brittany Jeffery Edited & Additional Maps by Veronica Maisch My recent abortion experience was 24 hours. After […]

Pedaling Together: Exploring Bike Buses as Safe, Sustainable, and Social Commuting for Children By Daniela Finlay Sam Balto, center, helped introduce a bill in Oregon’s state legislature that would allow schools more […]

Creating Inclusive Urban Futures: A Case Study on Dementia-Friendly Singapore Sidney Lok Navigating Singapore by MRT, the island’s Mass Rapid Transit system, you’ll notice signs sporting an illustration of […]