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.

We seek a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers.

Seed libraries can restart agriculture after disasters. But what of useless plants? Two artists save the spontaneous, weedy species that serve no purpose but their own.

Photographers explore the infrastructural underpinnings of Freshkills Park.

When Russell Jacobs started identifying trees, he found history, conflict, and company in an overlooked component of the streetscape.

Landscape architect David Seiter explains to ecologist Timon McPhearson why he loves weeds — and why you should too.