The Urban Design Forum has selected 38 early-to-mid-career professionals for its 2026 Forefront cohort, a fellowship the organization said will explore how to transform New York City’s public spaces into what it described as living, adaptive and sustaining landscapes of care.

The Forefront program, which the organization bills as an action lab for emerging urbanists, is now in its tenth year. According to the Urban Design Forum, this year’s interdisciplinary class draws talent from across the fields of design, landscape architecture, planning, economic and community development, policy, journalism, transportation and land stewardship, with each fellow engaged in work the group said is shaping the city’s future.