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The Urban Design Forum convenes preeminent leaders in urban planning, design and development to discuss the issues that face our cities.

05/20/2026

Applications are open for the 2026–2027 cohort of New City Critics!

Meet the Selection Committee for this application cycle, and please join us for an online info session May 29th at noon. Link in bio. Apply by June 11th.

05/07/2026

Please join us in celebrating the conclusion of the fellowship and launch of their publication, City en Regalia, guest edited by Elizabeth Greenspan and designed and printed by a83. In conversation, the six fellows will share insights into their process and problematics.

RSVP in bio

Wednesday, June 17
6:00 – 8:00 pm
DCTV
87 Lafayette Street

04/30/2026

Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York welcome applicants for a new cycle of New City Critics.

New City Critics empowers new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and build our cities. The fellowship supports the development of critics from underrepresented backgrounds through guest lectures and workshops, research guidance, networking, and production of new critical writing projects on a dedicated platform on . We aim to build a cohort of six individuals who will lean on each other’s curiosities and grow together.

Learn more at our info session on May 29 and apply by June 11. Link in bio

04/23/2026

What can New York City learn from global cities to create safe, dignified, and stable homes for every New Yorker?

Our latest report, Global Ideas for Housing Every New Yorker, is a collection of case studies of cities around the globe who have taken big swings to address their housing crises. In exchanges with global housing leaders, Fellows studied efforts to
▫️Unleash supply
▫️Plan for neighborhood mix
▫️Adapt homes for climate resilience
▫️Build for demographic shifts
▫️Energize social housing
▫️and embrace housing for all.

These case studies do not provide a simple fix or one silver bullet for New York City. They do offer examples of creative ideas, unlikely allies, and courageous solutions that can inspire us to be bolder in the decisions we make here.

Explore the report at the link in bio 🔗

04/13/2026

How are communities across New York reclaiming their public spaces and adapting to a changing climate?

Living Routes Fellows conducted fieldwork to meet with environmental justice leaders across the city, learning about the challenges they’re tackling head-on. Follow along!

04/07/2026

Take a look at what our Local Center Lighting Projects have been up to this Spring! ✨✨

Three local partners — Staten Island Urban Center, GrowHouse Design + Development Group, and Church-Flatbush Community Alliance — are illuminating streets and plazas near small businesses in their neighborhoods, with help from A+A+A, Flint Collective, Queens Lighting Collective, Andrea Steele Architects, SITU, Arup, and Phillips Lytle. Stay tuned for project unveilings this summer!

These lighting installations are made possible with funding from the Public Realm Grant

03/17/2026

We are thrilled to welcome Urban Design Forum’s newly appointed Associate Board! Meet the 26 Forefront Alumni who will support the future of our work with emerging leaders. The Associate Board will build new connections across the Forum community and bring fresh perspectives to shaping and sustaining the Forefront Fellowship, our action lab for emerging urbanists.

Meet the Board at the link in bio 🔗

03/10/2026

Last week, we joined the and architect Søren Pihlmann for a conversation about creative approaches to material use and reuse. What can we learn from architecture that considers resource scarcity and climate urgency, such as ’s Thoravej 29, a project which treated the building itself as its own material bank? We heard from the directors of the 2025, Slow Down, about how to challenge fast-paced, consumption-driven architecture and advocate for a regenerative approach.

Thank you to .newyork Eastman for hosting us!

Keep an eye out for more of our Global Exchange public programming this spring.

03/05/2026

What can we learn from global cities to make every New Yorker’s commute safe, fast, and reliable?

Join our 2026-27 Global Exchange fellowship, Fast Forward, to explore cities taking courageous steps to reclaim streets, expand public transit, and undo the dominance of the private car.

Learn more at the link in our bio. Join our information session on March 31 and apply by May 1.

02/10/2026

🌱 Meet our cohort 2026 Forefront Cohort – 38 emerging leaders exploring new strategies to care for green streets and public spaces in every neighborhood.

Working across the fields of design, landscape architecture, planning, economic and community development, policy, journalism, transportation, and land stewardship, the Living Routes Fellows will be working with to transform public spaces into living, adaptive, and sustaining landscapes of care.

Meet the Fellows at the link in our bio.

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