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
Urban Design Forum’s platform of ideas for New York’s next leaders.
Posted — February 20, 2025
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
Equitable health outcomes are necessary to achieve climate justice, and changes to existing policies can help achieve that goal.
Posted — December 10, 2020
What is the value of design in shelters? When is good design not enough? How can we create design guidelines that improve the lives of residents and staff, not burden them? And as urbanists, should we focus our energies on addressing today’s crisis, or long-term solutions to house the most vulnerable?
Posted — July 24, 2020
Public bathrooms are a basic need, public health concern, human rights concern, and quality of life concern. We propose a series of creative legislative, funding and management strategies for the City of New York to create more public bathrooms.
Posted — July 24, 2020
Providing incarcerated individuals with access to early and continuous re-entry services will help reduce homelessness in New York City.
Posted — July 24, 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
