Brooklyn-based studio Tri-Lox intervenes on the city’s waste stream, repurposing wood to furnish everything from Shake Shack interiors to Shakespeare in the Park.

In the shadow of the Flatiron, a writer spends an hour conducting her own public space audit.

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

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

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

A high-volume transfer station, a model municipal soil bank, and a cutting-edge soil washer: Three area sites illustrate the values, costs, and benefits that shape the flow of recycled soil in and around the city.

Multiple spins on an elaborate underwater-themed carousel reveal the importance of wonder in the public realm.

A very short story debates two long-term visions for vital infrastructure in Queens.

The city’s construction projects don’t just rise skyward. They dig downward, displacing massive amounts of material whose journey in and out of the city few ever see.

Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.