NYU Urban Studies

NYU History and Urban Studies faculty member, Edward Berenson, is interviewed about Levittown and the mass production of suburban housing. Link in first comment.

Congratulations to Urban Studies prizewinners: Havann Brown and Miki Hertog-Raz. Havann won the Urban Studies/SCA Program Prize for dedicated service to the program and the community at large. Miki won both the Urban Studies/SCA Program Academic Achievement Award for the senior with the highest grade-point average and the Urban Studies/SCA Urban Advocacy Award for intellectual and social engagement in the City through dedicated service to the community at large.

NYU Sociology and Urban Studies prof, Eric Klinenberg, writes in the New Yorker about creative ways that cities are adapting to climate change. Link in first comment.

The Urban Democracy Lab at the NYU Gallatin has released its 2026 Working Paper Series, featuring 10 policy proposals designed to support the first 100 days of the administration of Zohran Mamdani in New York City.

Focused on housing, mass governance, and public infrastructures, the series brings together scholars, advocates, and community partners to reimagine essentials like housing, transit, child care, and education as social goods.

Head to https://cms.nyu.edu/editor.html/content/gallatin/en/news/2026/03/urban-democracy-lab-publishes-10-policy-proposals-for-nyc.html to read more about the proposals 🔗

Call for Photo Submissions 📸

NYU Wagner is requesting photo submissions for an upcoming photography exhibit.

Place & Purpose: Urban Life Through Your Lens invites participants and audiences to share their perspectives on urban life, as captured through photography.

NYU alumni, students, employees & NYC-based photographers can submit photos by April 20.

Learn more about submission guidelines here: https://bit.ly/415HtHx

Discover Urban Studies at NYU!

Discover Urban Studies at NYU Experience the city as your classroom and learn how to shape the future of urban life with NYU’s Urban Studies majors.

Join us on February 25 for a screening of the prizewinning documentary, Drop Dead City, followed by a discussion with director and producer Michael Rohatyn, and Urban Studies Professors Kimberley Johnson and Tom Sugrue. Be sure to sign up!

We are open to new majors! Join our growing Urban Studies team. Urban Studies is featured in the newest issue of Around Arts & Science. Follow the link in the first comment.

We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Daniel J. Walkowitz Prize in Urban Studies for best thesis, capstone, documentary, or research project by an Urban Studies major. Funded by a generous donation, the prize is named in honor of Professor Emeritus Danny Walkowitz, a leader in urban and metropolitan studies at NYU, a prolific historian of labor, culture, and urban life, and a documentary filmmaker. Link to the announcement in first comment.

NYU Urban Studies director Tom Sugrue discusses cities past, present, and future.

Thomas Sugrue is a Julius Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU Arts & Science as well as director of the Urban Studies Program. “There are exciting possibilities for urban collaboration and for scholars exploring issues of common interest in what is now, for the first time in human history, a majority urban world,” Sugrue said.