On July 21st, 2026, the Institute for Public Knowledge’s report Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible and Director Eric Klinenberg were featured in a piece by The New York Times titled “Building Community With $1 Coffees, a Salsa Club and Patience.” Read the excerpt below, then click…
Read MoreOn July 9th, 2026, IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz penned an opinion piece for The Bulwark titled “ance and Rufo Want You to Know That Nixon Is Back, Baby, and He’s Better Than Ever.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. The future of Nixon celebration on the modern right may ultimately…
Read MoreOn July 16, IPK Fellow Rowan Ricardo Phillips published a guest essay for the New York Times titled “Lionel Messi is Walking Into History.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. By late Wednesday afternoon, the roads in Barcelona had begun to empty. I was still an hour from the place where I…
Read MoreOn June 17th, 2026, Eric Klinenberg, Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, and Julia Day, partner and team director at Gehl Studio, penned a piece for Vital City titled “Sustaining the Joyful City: A New York City Social Infrastructure Agenda.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. New York City faces an…
Read MoreOn June 10th, 2026, IPK Fellow Joshua Jelly-Schapiro penned a guest essay for the New York Times titled “It’s Not U.S. 1994, but It’s Something.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. In 2026, the world doesn’t look like we hoped it might from the sunny vantage of the early 1990s, when…
Read MoreOn June 3rd, 2026, IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz penned a book review of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton & Company, 2026) for Jacobin titled “A Child of the Weather Underground Looks Back.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the…
Read MoreOn April 28, 2026, New York University published an official press release announcing the Institute for Public Knowledge and Gehl Studio’s report Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible. Public officials, health care companies, and academic researchers have warned that the United States is undergoing a crisis of…
Read MoreSocial Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible. Social infrastructure—the physical places that shape our capacity to connect – is essential for the health and vitality of democratic societies. But in recent decades cities and communities across the United States have failed to build or maintain great gathering places…
Read MoreOn April 6th, 2026, Eric Klinenberg, Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, penned a piece for The New Yorker titled “Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods?” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Since the nineties, New York City has experienced eight storms with hourly rainfalls above 1.75 inches,…
Read MoreOn January 15th, 2026, IPK Fellow Darshana Narayanan penned an essay for Pioneer Works titled “Baby-Making on Mars.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Humanity has entered a new era of space exploration. This time, we don’t just want to visit, we want to stay. From Musk and Bezos to former…
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