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

What if New York City’s public pools were open all year long?

Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm.

A disquisition into the urban/suburban and human/insect divides, and how people might come together when their surroundings are planned to keep them apart.

Forty years after its inauguration, there is still much to learn from a mold-breaking NYC playground that provided space for disabled kids to play alongside their non-disabled peers.

In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.

A neighborhood advocate marshals data and organizes neighbors to make congested Midtown streets safe for pedestrians.

To reimagine the Cross Bronx Expressway, and redress damage it has wrought for generations, we have to see the corridor clearly as it is today.

On the voids storms and plans leave behind, and what we do with them.

New projects are bringing more people and attention to the Rockaway Peninsula, but ten years after Hurricane Sandy, the work of building resilient infrastructure remains woefully incomplete.