Urban Design Forum’s platform of ideas for New York’s next leaders.
Posted — February 20, 2025
Our 2023-24 Forefront Fellows reimagined public spaces where youth are free to be themselves and live vibrant, healthy lives.
Posted — August 29, 2024
A vision for designing libraries with youth at the helm
Posted — June 28, 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
NYC must tap into its wasted, underutilized, and ignored spaces to reach its Zero Waste goals.
Posted — June 13, 2023
Restaurants need incentives and resources to reduce their food waste. The Food Waste Hub makes it possible.
Posted — June 13, 2023
New York City must transition from a “take, make, waste” model into one that uses waste as an opportunity.
Posted — June 12, 2023
Urban Design Forum is pleased to release Streets Ahead: Five Routes to a Thriving City.
Posted — May 17, 2022
Explore new tools for creating cooperative businesses.
Posted — June 17, 2021
Explores how to build community power through connected hyper-local networks.
Posted — June 17, 2021
Learn about Forefront Fellows' partnership with Compost Power.
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
We must take action with community-led strategies that build long lasting resilience in centers most at risk, and we must do so with those most active in the community.
Posted — December 11, 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
