Exploring the urgent housing challenges facing middle-income older adults in a Queens Neighborhood
Posted — August 5, 2025
Aging in Focus is an empathetic participatory design tool used to gather data on the needs, concerns, and joys of older adults.
Posted — July 30, 2025
Older adults have turned the soil. It’s time we give them their flowers.
Posted — July 22, 2025
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
Lifelong City is a participatory project exploring how aging in New York City has evolved — and how we can shape what comes next.
Posted — June 27, 2025
Janice Chu, architectural designer at di Domenico + Partners, reflects on how their Local Center team incorporated generative AI into the co-design strategy for the Sunnyside Vision Plan.
Posted — June 12, 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
The Local Center team reflects on how to achieve equitable public spaces across the city.
Posted — December 11, 2024
In this Practice Note, you’ll hear from our Global Exchange staff about what lessons we can learn from Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld.
Posted — October 9, 2024
After an immersive 3-day study trip to Berlin, Clara Parker, Director of Global Exchange, reflects on what we're learning as we build solidarity between leaders in New York City and other cities taking “big swings” at their housing crises.
Posted — October 9, 2024
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
