A high-volume transfer station, a model municipal soil bank, and a cutting-edge soil washer: Three area sites illustrate the values, costs, and benefits that shape the flow of recycled soil in and around the city.

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

In Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the cricket pitch is a commonwealth.

New books chronicle US suburbs' divergence from their mythical origin scenes of verdant lawns and white picket fences — and detail how social struggles have always been part of their story.

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

To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source.

Questions of ownership, affordability, and political representation converge in current struggles over rent regulation.

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

Battles for inclusion and exclusion in the life of the city more often end in stand-offs than in skirmishes.

Four tales of the cities that arise from moral and environmental disaster. Can we ever really start anew?