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
Urban Design Forum is pleased to release Tools for Connecting Local Food Systems, a new toolkit to a thriving food system.
Posted — June 17, 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
Cooperative Works: Equitable Business Development for Building Retrofits explores how to deepen New York City’s climate commitments through investment in minority-owned businesses and workers of color.
Posted — January 20, 2021
This collection presents the work completed by the Urban Design Forum addressing climate justice issues in New York City through the 2019-2020 Forefront Fellowship. Through Turning the Heat, Fellows developed original design and policy proposals on creating circular economic and sustainable models in NYC, developing community resiliency within NYCHA housing, factoring design into preventative care, […]
Posted — December 11, 2020
In 2018-19, the Urban Design Forum’s Forefront Fellows investigated the homelessness crisis in New York City. This compilation presents the original design and policy proposals developed by the Fellows and accompanying interviews with subject-matter experts.
Posted — July 24, 2020
Leading up to our Cooperative Works program, we are pleased to publish a series of interviews with leaders in sustainability in the built environment, inclusive economic development, and racial justice.
Posted — July 21, 2020
The Turning the Heat report emerges from the Urban Design Forum’s partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Resiliency to research how urban design can mitigate the impacts of extreme heat in New York City’s most heat-vulnerable neighborhoods.
Posted — June 10, 2020
As part of the 2018 Forefront Fellowship, Julie Chou, Kevin Gurley, and Bo Hong developed a booklet highlighting the importance of public bathrooms in the public realm.
Posted — February 4, 2020
In 2017-18, we invited our Fellows and other experts to consider the question of maintaining New York City’s essential infrastructure: its open spaces, roadways, subway stations, public housing, commercial corridors, and green infrastructure.
Posted — July 16, 2019
We are pleased to publish our second class of Forefront Fellows' original design and policy proposals to empower emerging and historic immigrant neighborhoods in New York City.
Posted — April 17, 2018
In the fall of 2016, the Urban Design Forum invited its Fellows and experts to help us craft a vision for the future of mobility in New York City. Within these pages, you’ll find an inventory of imaginative thinking on what our city’s transportation landscape could be.
Posted — February 26, 2018
Our inaugural Forefront class spent the past year meeting with Carto, Intersection, Kickstarter, Sidewalk Labs, and NYU CUSP to discuss how smart city technology is changing the way we experience and build cities. We are excited to publish the cohort's proposals, ideas and critiques on design in the digital era.
Posted — April 6, 2017
During the spring of 2013, the Urban Design Forum invited distinguished civic leaders, developers and designers to pitch bold visions for a more competitive, livable and sustainable New York. The result was a collection of forty courageous proposals imagining rebuilt infrastructure, reformed government, and an animated public realm.
Posted — November 30, 2013
By the City/For the City is an index of ideas about the city centered on accessibility, beauty, connectivity, enjoyment, and social equity.
Posted — September 15, 2011
In May 2007, the Cities Conference on Urban Design gathered for the first time the chief planners of Boston, London, New York, Singapore, Toronto, and Vancouver. Over the course of two days, at a variety of venues in Manhattan, they examined common challenges, shared urban design strategies and argued over what defines a successful city.
Posted — May 15, 2007