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

A lot of art and a little science went into representing fifteen years of Urban Omnibus stories on a map of New York City.

As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?

Piecing together land use laws from coast to coast, the National Zoning Atlas illustrates the need for reform.

An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.

An artist and an artificial intelligence, trained on the data of 1,000 anonymous New Yorkers, follow a path forged by no one in particular.

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

For an equal shot at competitive sports in New York City public high schools, students and teachers fight to untangle the knot of race and space.

With so much of value under threat from rising seas and flooding rains, recent books reconsider our relation to the water’s edge.

Density and displacement aren’t just problems for the living.