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

People love a place with “good light.”

How do you respond to remediation when it falls short, again and again? For New Jersey's Ramapough Lunaape, mending the impacts of pollution on ancestral land means restoring health and indigenous culture on new ground.

New York City has passed sweeping new laws to green the city’s roofs. What do they mean for residents, building owners, and birds?

In 2016, a Brooklyn artist was commissioned to design Highland Park’s first public sculpture. Four years later, much of her work — and life — now orbits around the site and its community of residents and stewards.

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?

Our inaugural Urban Wild Writer in Residence reports from the four mounds of the future Freshkills Park.

Where do the street trees come from, and where does the compost go? Rikers Island was the city’s growing outpost for years. But does “greening” the prison always improve things for prisoners?

Photographers focus on the grasslands that cap the former Fresh Kills landfill and provide new homes for threatened wildlife.