In this reflection, you'll hear from Fellow Mike Harrington on lessons learned from a visit to Tingbjerg.
Posted — July 8, 2025
In this reflection, you'll hear from Fellow ennifer Nitzky on lessons learned from Copenhagen's youth-centered public spaces.
Posted — July 8, 2025
In this reflection, you'll hear from Fellow Justin Den Herder on lessons learned from Copenhagen's circular design.
Posted — July 8, 2025
In this reflection, you'll hear from Fellow Allison Novak on lessons learned from Copenhagen's housing finance model.
Posted — July 2, 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
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
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
Martha Snow reflects on what kinds of lasting change to public space we can accomplish with temporary installations.
Posted — August 14, 2024
Martha Snow reflects on the newest cohort of Local Center teams who are envisioning a new future for our Main Streets.
Posted — May 3, 2024
As Policy and Communications Director for Riders Alliance, Danny Pearlstein spends his days fighting for better transit for New Yorkers.
Posted — April 25, 2024
Martha Snow reflects on the latest midpoint shareout for Local Center projects and their work reclaiming public spaces.
Posted — March 20, 2024
Local Center teams share lessons learned from community engagement and where they are headed next.
Posted — December 21, 2023
K.C. Alvey discusses the public will, capacity, and understanding for urban agriculture, highlighting the importance of urban agriculture on health and community, and its overall impact on the city.
Posted — December 19, 2023
Urban designer and planner Julia Day discusses street design and counteracting public aversion to change as designers seek to improve spaces.
Posted — November 27, 2023
Gina Lee reflects on a recent tour of the Flatbush African Burial Ground and the power of history in public space.
Posted — November 16, 2023
Martha Snow reflects on a recent Learning Community session among Local Center partners.
Posted — November 16, 2023
Guillermo Gómez reflects on our Gowanus Precinct Study and the value of on-the-ground collective learning.
Posted — November 16, 2023
Julie Chou, partner and co-founder of Purpose by Design Architects, on design as a democratic, justice-oriented process.
Posted — August 30, 2023
Daniel McPhee shares how we approached recruiting design teams and preparing our partners to choose from among them.
Posted — July 27, 2023
Martha Snow, in our first Practice Notes, reflects on how we found our five neighborhood partners earlier this year.
Posted — July 26, 2023
Journalist Henry Grabar talks traffic jams and the road to publishing his new book on parking.
Posted — May 31, 2023
Dr. Earle Chambers talks to us about the impact of neighborhood-level design on health.
Posted — April 25, 2023
For this month's Fellow Spotlight, we spoke with Naama Blonder, Co-Founder of Smart Density in Toronto.
Posted — October 31, 2022
