Piecing together land use laws from coast to coast, the National Zoning Atlas illustrates the need for reform.

An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.

An artist and an artificial intelligence, trained on the data of 1,000 anonymous New Yorkers, follow a path forged by no one in particular.

Two hundred years of environmental change have meant both destruction and conservation of the most interesting river in America.

For an equal shot at competitive sports in New York City public high schools, students and teachers fight to untangle the knot of race and space.

With so much of value under threat from rising seas and flooding rains, recent books reconsider our relation to the water’s edge.

Density and displacement aren’t just problems for the living.

With New York City on the verge of reorganizing the private sanitation industry, union organizer Allan Henry connects the dots between street safety, worker rights, and environmental impacts.

The NYPD vaunts crime mapping technologies from CompStat maps to a vast networked surveillance infrastructure. Who benefits?

We seek a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers.