Landscape
In Absentia
Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.
State of Play
New York City's only adventure playground is a beloved destination. But it's also a proposition to make room for free play across the city, from street to schoolyard.
A New Harvest
Herbs and berries are free for the picking along the Bronx River Foodway. But the public place for foraging is also a pathway to stronger connections with local ecologies and community self-determination.
Turning the Tide
Where can queer and trans community flourish, if not at Riis Beach? Yet current plans for its future don't account for the people it has sustained for decades.
Landscape Orientation
An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.
Extra Terrestrial
From Freshkills Park's photographer-in-residence, portraits of another world in formation
Introducing the Inaugural Cohort of New City Critics
Meet the 2022 fellows in a program to empower new and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities.
Traffic Patterns
In an unlikely design magazine, New Jersey’s thickly settled geography provides a guide to divining the metropolis of the future.