Landscape
Organic Machines
Thousands of new rain gardens are soaking up stormwater across the city. As green infrastructure settles into the sidewalk, can we learn to love a sewer?
In the Hudson's Image
For activists, scientists, and designers, images from the river's past hold the key to imagining its future.
Reflections on a Rising Hudson
Two hundred years of environmental change have meant both destruction and conservation of the most interesting river in America.
The Truth About Trees
An artist and a historian talk trees: What they mean, and what it takes to get city-dwellers to see them clearly.
Offsetted: After Green Infrastructure
What’s lost when the value of city trees is reduced to the “environmental services” they provide?
Waterfront Views
With so much of value under threat from rising seas and flooding rains, recent books reconsider our relation to the water’s edge.
Seeding Stability
To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source.
Pipeline Territories
With natural gas dependency on the rise, thousands of miles of pipe connect New York City to a vast and dangerous geography of extraction.
Freshkills: Reorientation
Our inaugural Urban Wild Writer in Residence reports from the four mounds of the future Freshkills Park.