In this proceedings document, you'll hear from our Global Exchange staff and fellows on lessons learned from the Urban Design Study Trip to Copenhagen.
Posted — July 2, 2025
Our 2024-25 Forefront Fellows explored how city leaders and designers can make aging in place an accessible and affordable option for all New Yorkers.
Posted — June 11, 2025
How can community organizations, designers, funders, and government empower New York City neighborhoods to shape their futures?
Posted — April 25, 2025
The Local Center is thrilled to release three Public Realm Vision Plans from our community partners in Sunnyside, Brownsville, and the Capitol District.
Posted — April 4, 2025
What can New York learn from cities around the world taking “big swings” to confront their housing crises?
Posted — March 10, 2025
Urban Design Forum’s platform of ideas for New York’s next leaders.
Posted — February 20, 2025
Urban Design Forum’s Rewire initiative examined ways to transform New York City’s buildings, public spaces, and infrastructure into engines for climate action.
Posted — October 4, 2024
Forefront Residency Fellows developed a report to present innovative, multifaceted and cost-effective solutions to improve New York City’s public bathroom system.
Posted — September 18, 2024
Our 2023-24 Forefront Fellows reimagined public spaces where youth are free to be themselves and live vibrant, healthy lives.
Posted — August 29, 2024
Read the final report from New Loops, our seventh Forefront Fellowship, offering new approaches to waste that support our health, climate and society.
Posted — August 7, 2023
Urban Design Forum is thrilled to release 73 Ideas for a Healthier New York City.
Posted — July 18, 2023
New York City can invest in communities to bring healthy and affordable food to every neighborhood.
Posted — June 14, 2022
Urban Design Forum is pleased to release Streets Ahead: Five Routes to a Thriving City.
Posted — May 17, 2022
This collection of original projects developed by the Urban Design Forum’s Forefront Fellows addresses how climate investment can spur an equitable economic recovery in New York City. Through Cooperative Works, our Fellows explored how to develop innovative financing for green cooperatives, build community power through hyper-local networks, and scale green entrepreneurship. In the Fall 2020, in […]
Posted — June 17, 2021
21 Visions of 2021 is a built environment agenda which serves as a resource and a call to action for the City's next leadership.
Posted — March 16, 2021
