Where's My Package?

Amazon’s logistical network is as extensive as it is abstruse. To get a sense of its scale, we reconstruct the regional distribution system, one order at a time.

New City Critics

The Future, Encapsulated

With a fragment of the Tokyo Nakagin Capsule Tower preserved for posterity, a MoMA exhibition provides more than one perspective on planned obsolescence.

New City Critics

Medieval Times

The MTA’s latest military-inspired tactics to curb fare evasion may be fighting the wrong enemy.

New City Critics

The Midnight Shift

A small task force listens in on an obscure city soundtrack to maintain a century-old water system.

A Question About Tomorrow

As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. So what will it take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant?

Seneca Village, Envisioned

No visual records remained after a thriving, majority Black village was cleared to make way for Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.