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Local Center teams share lessons learned from community engagement and where they are headed next.

Generous support has enabled us to plan and launch four new annual programs in the past year alone.

Five interdisciplinary design teams will support neighborhood organizations in realizing new public space projects that celebrate local cultures and histories.

Five neighborhood organizations will lead new projects to celebrate local cultures and histories in public space.

Read recent Field Reports from our New City Critics Fellows

Urban Design Forum and ANHD invite organizations to share their interest in a new community design program.

There has never been a more important moment to nurture a new generation of diverse, creative, and informed leaders.

Check out new projects by the 2021 Forefront Fellows.

Remembering Urban Design Forum's founder, Ann Ferebee.

Our citywide updates from our second cycle of Neighborhoods Now.

Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York announce the inaugural Fellows of New City Critics.

Who should join our community as we enter a new chapter in New York City?

Supported by a grant from Wells Fargo, seven community-based teams will lead long-term recovery at the neighborhood scale

Hear from Miranda, our new Director of Member Engagement who's excited to reconnect with our network in the new year.

The Urban Design Forum joins the civic community in mourning the loss of Alex Garvin.

Bed-Stuy Gateway BID, Neighborhoods Now, and Wells Fargo Present Winter Wonderland 2.0, A Holiday Experience.

The New City Critics program aims to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we design, plan, and develop our cities.

Meet the 2021 Class of Forefront Fellows made up of designers, community planners, advocates, public health professionals and policy experts.

The Urban Design Forum, an independent membership organization convening civic leaders to debate urban affairs, announced today that James (“Jamie”) von Klemperer had been elected chair of the Board of Directors and Margaret Newman had been elected president of the Board of Directors, effective June 15.

The Urban Design Forum is excited to announce our 2020 Class of Forum Fellows! Our 82 new Fellows are civic leaders shaping dynamic, equitable, and resilient cities around the world. As we build a community of experts wrestling with today’s complex urban challenges, we strive to highlight their creative solutions and exemplary projects across our yearly programming.

Our team at the Urban Design Forum urges our members to condemn anti-Asian hate and stand in solidarity with New York City’s AAPI communities. As architects, planners and developers, we have a responsibility to understand how anti-Asian racism across our nation’s history has shaped our cities.

Urban Design Forum is pleased to announce their latest project, 21 Visions for 2021. This micro-website presents a bold built environment agenda, culminating over a year and a half of work by an interdisciplinary cohort of 46 Forum Fellows.

New community partners in Chinatown, East Village, and South Bronx collaborate with interdisciplinary experts on pandemic recovery. Since April 2020, the initiative has assisted more than 100 restaurants, small businesses, and cultural organizations.

Forumites, At the Urban Design Forum, our focus may be shaping City Hall rather than the Halls of Congress, but we believe our mission is to strengthen our democracy. Design is powerful: it not only shapes our everyday experience; it inspires people to strive for a healthier, happier and more just society. As we begin […]