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

Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.

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.

Since 2009, New York City has been incentivizing private cleanup of contaminated sites. Who benefits?

In an unlikely design magazine, New Jersey’s thickly settled geography provides a guide to divining the metropolis of the future.

With a mandate to decarbonize the city’s building stock, how can New Yorkers reconcile a transition to so-called clean energy with the environmental and cultural impacts of extraction beyond the city’s borders?

The balance between New York City's public and private pools has shifted dramatically in recent decades. Why has so much city swimming retreated into towers or behind fences?

An artist and an architect collaborate to visualize the landscapes along New York City’s perimeter, depicting a city rarely seen or heard.

28 maps track the networks of consultancy through which CompStat's architects spread the gospel — often for a tidy fee.

The city's plans call for new borough jails to replace those at Rikers. A set of drawings examines land uses in the boroughs' civic centers to consider: Can New Yorkers accept jails as neighbors?