Reciprocal City
Awnings, cisterns, and icehouses — defunct minor infrastructures — inspire speculative proposals for a more intentional give-and-take between the built and natural environments.
A People’s Architect
A new biography spotlights Max Bond and his exemplary practice of architecture, in which social commitments outweighed spectacle and collective good trumped individual recognition.
The Land and the Landfill
In Staten Island, a transformed landscape poses a key question: Now that we know what animals need from urban spaces, can we give it to them on purpose?
When Care Gets a Charter
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?
Cloudbusting
A decade after its original publication, a revised field guide to the urban internet offers a fresh perspective on the era of mass surveillance and AI blitzscaling.
Lessons from 2044
Urban infrastructures are transformed by crisis and ingenuity in three stories pulled from a newspaper of the future.
In cities around the world, animals put human-built infrastructures to new and unanticipated uses. Russell Jacobs chronicles the anthropogenic ecologies of New York’s concrete jungle.
The Reefs Beneath the Piers