Love to see our former Program Intern Julia Chow featured in Forbes on centering fieldwork in a humanities education: www.forbes.com/sites/lisach... Our New York: City Designed program with CUNY Macaulay Honors is building pathways to urban planning careers: www.designtrust.org/programs/new...

Why Internships Are Crucial For College Students–Even Humanities Majors

Humanities majors may not see internships as key to landing a job. But at Bennington College, students have been getting real-world experience since the Great Depression.

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We are encouraged to see the Mamdani Administration and NYC DOT invest in the communal potential of city streets with permanent resources and intentional pedestrian design for Avenue B, and we look forward to seeing these kind of improvements across the five boroughs: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

How can we design better ways to live with NYC's water? www.designtrust.org/news/public-...

"Rather than something to be tightly controlled and selectively accessed, Untaped reframes public space as a shared civic resource that should be easier to use, more legible to navigate, and more equitably distributed." urbanomnibus.net/2026/09/when...

When Care Gets a Charter - Urban Omnibus

Will a new Business Improvement District bring stability and support to East Harlem's placekeepers, or does it spell the end of community stewardship and power?

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Extreme rainfall events and cloudbursts will increase in frequency. New York City's infrastructure has to transform so we can live safely with water and adapt to the new normal. Our latest project, Raincheck, aims to prepare NYC for heavy rain and flooding: www.designtrust.org/projects/rai...

Are you part of a garden, park group, open streets team, waterfront group, or other public space stewardship effort? 🗺️ Take the Public Space Partners Survey and help your group be counted: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

ICYMI: Catch a recording of our Untaped panel at Culture Lab LIC, tackling ways NYC can remove barriers to public space events and programming! Watch here: vimeo.com/designtrust/...

Untaped Talk @ Culture Lab LIC

The Untaped: Removing Barriers for Public Space Programming panel convened public servants and cultural organizations who work to put on community events to discuss how NYC can make it easier for New ...

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NYCHA stewards over 2,400 acres of land (almost three Central Parks!) The urban design of public housing communities has extraordinary impacts on the 1 out of 16 NYers who live there, and the city at large. More on centering participatory design at NYCHA: www.designtrust.org/news/green-s...

We're hiring a part-time Communications and Events Coordinator! Applications due next Friday: How to apply: www.designtrust.org/news/call-pa...

Calling NYC photographers! 📣 📸 Apply for our Photo Urbanism Fellowship by 9/2: www.designtrust.org/news/apply-2...

Calling NYC photographers! 📣 📸 Apply for our Photo Urbanism Fellowship by 9/2: www.designtrust.org/news/apply-2...

Now in its third year, our New York: City Designed program at Macaulay Honors College is creating new paths to urban planning careers. See where a few alumni are now: www.designtrust.org/news/new-yor...

Ahead of City of Water Day tomorrow, explore communities across NYC that are managing, and celebrating, life surrounded by water: www.designtrust.org/news/living-...

NYCHA stewards over 2,400 acres of land (almost three Central Parks!) The urban design of public housing communities has extraordinary impacts on the 1 out of 16 NYers who live there, and the city at large. More on centering participatory design at NYCHA: www.designtrust.org/news/green-s...

ICYMI: Catch a recording of our Untaped panel at Culture Lab LIC, tackling ways NYC can remove barriers to public space events and programming! Watch here: vimeo.com/designtrust/...

Untaped Talk @ Culture Lab LIC

The Untaped: Removing Barriers for Public Space Programming panel convened public servants and cultural organizations who work to put on community events to discuss how NYC can make it easier for New ...

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Are you part of a garden, park group, open streets team, waterfront group, or other public space stewardship effort? 🗺️ Take the Public Space Partners Survey and help your group be counted: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The Public Housing Community Fund is seeking a consultant to help lead the Green Space Connections initiative. Shape resident-led community space transformations at 4 NYCHA communities across Staten Island, Manhattan, and Queens! Learn more and apply here: www.communityfund.nyc/opportunitie...

Request for Qualifications - Green Space Consultant — Public Housing Community Fund

The Public Housing Community Fund (PHCF) is seeking a qualified Green Space Consultant to support Green Space Connections 3.0, a resident-led initiative transforming open spaces at four NYCHA develo...

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One week left until Untaped! Spots are going up fast, claim yours at the link below ✂️🔽

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Join us for a talk at Culture Lab LIC on making it easier for New Yorkers to use their public spaces 7/9: events.humanitix.com/untaped-panel

Through our Photo Urbanism program, student photographers explore "home" in NYC's public spaces: www.designtrust.org/news/student...

Join us for a talk at Culture Lab LIC on making it easier for New Yorkers to use their public spaces 7/9: events.humanitix.com/untaped-panel

Untaped: Removing Barriers for Public Space Programming

Join the Design Trust for Public Space at Culture Lab for an Untaped talk on how NYC can make it easier to host events and programming in our public spaces

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Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground at Van Cortlandt Park unveils Design Ideas Lab concepts for a new memorial during the park's Juneteenth 2026 celebration: www.designtrust.org/news/reimagi...

The story of the People's Park: vimeo.com/1200804616?s...

The People's Park: Opening the Edge with Lower East Side Public Housing Residents

Opening the Edge, proposed by artist Jane Greengold in 2014 to Design Trust for Public Space's "Energetic City" open call for public space project ideas, and developed in partnership with NYCHA, was a...

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New Yorkers deserve clarity and agency in deciding how they can use their public spaces: www.designtrust.org/news/design-...

Our Annual Benefit for Public Space brings together city leaders, the design community, and local advocates to support public space. This year, we're celebrating affordable housing design that connects communities and brings neighborhoods to life. Join us: www.designtrust.org/events/benef...

We’ve partnered with the @macaulayhonors.bsky.social to build new pathways to urban planning careers! Meet the 2026 New York: City Designed Internship Cohort: www.designtrust.org/news/announc...

The Neurodiverse City, led by Design Trust for Public Space, Verona Carpenter Architects, WIP collaborative, and a coalition of disability advocates, is reimagining New York City’s public spaces to better support neurodivergence: Download our report: www.designtrust.org/news/neurodi...

Join us for a Neurodiverse City NYCxDESIGN exhibition 5/19 530pm, featuring prototypes of sensory interventions and the release of a new publication on neuroinclusive design and policy recommendations for a more accessible city! RSVP: www.designtrust.org/events/neuro...

“We are thrilled to see the Mamdani Administration and NYC DOT leverage the power of community-informed design to make NYC’s streets greener and more livable," said Matthew Clarke, Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Mayor Mamdani Unveils Design Concepts to Put the ‘Park’ Back in Park Avenue

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“How do we bring to life a lot of those histories that have been hidden, have been suppressed, have been erased...And then re-manifest them so they become more part of our urban spaces?” Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground in the Riverdale Press: www.riverdalepress.com/stories/unti...

Three teams to shape vision for historic African Burial Ground in the Bronx - The Riverdale Press

Three design teams were selected to develop concepts for reimagining an African Burial Ground in Van Cortlandt Park, advancing a community-driven effort to honor enslaved Africans and reinterpret the ...

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ICYMI watch a recording of last night’s Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground at Van Cortlandt Park panel 🌸 link here: vimeo.com/1185650781?s...

Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground at Van Cortlandt Park: Design Ideas Lab Panel at Lehman College

Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground at Van Cortlandt Park hosted a special panel conversation, in partnership with Lehman College at CUNY Campus Honors & Scholar Engagement, featuring the t...

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