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City Habitats

The Human Harbor

Birds, fish, and marine mammals dodge traffic, hitch rides, and make the most of unlikely opportunities in the city’s many waterways.

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.

City Habitats

Infrastructure Enclaves

In a dense city, borders and barriers made of steel, concrete, and asphalt can create unexpected pockets of protection for habitat-starved plants and animals.

City Habitats

Waste Watering Holes

Bird watching at an unlikely urban oasis: the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

City Habitats

Nooks and Crannies

Local birds evicted from their usual habitats find themselves nesting and hunting atop skyscrapers, power lines, and traffic lights.

Swimming Ahead

What if New York City’s public pools were open all year long?

Where Can the Public Bathrooms Go in New York City?

Creating 3,000 more places to go can be transformative for people's dignity and the quality of the public realm. But actually implementing a citywide restroom network requires solutions that address each neighborhood's specific needs.

Painter of Modern Life

The past and the present, the factual and the virtual, the foreign and the personal, are all layered in a New York portrait painted from a D-train dérive.

God's Garage

It's complicated inside New York City's 99 cent stores, where creativity and exploitation coexist.