Two hundred years of environmental change have meant both destruction and conservation of the most interesting river in America.

Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.

In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.

50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing?

Nearly six years after Sandy flooded basements and uprooted trees, Red Hook Houses is still in recovery. But designers from KPF and OLIN see a future brighter than survival, when infrastructure combines with art and the landscape rises above the waterline.

As police personnel and machinery have settled into New York City schools, the line between school discipline and criminal punishment has become blurry.

For decades, city governments have pledged to clear neighborhood streets of crime and police abuse in the same stroke. But can community policing deliver on its promises?

For decades, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design has touted the efficacy of bollards, gates, and cameras in deterring violent acts — with scant evidence. At what cost do we build “defensible space”?

What is gained, and what is lost, when justice takes place outside public view?

How can we define the “criminal justice system”? What is it, where is it, and what are all of the things that it does?