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History
Offsetted: After Green Infrastructure
What’s lost when the value of city trees is reduced to the “environmental services” they provide?
Radicals and Real Estate
This is what democracy looks like: not only public squares, but office buildings. In the Lower East Side, the Peace Pentagon was the source point for four decades of resistance.
Buried Grudges
From deadly explosions to silent climate warming emissions, the contemporary troubles of the city's gas infrastructure have roots in the tumult surrounding its installation more than a century ago.
Do You Remember How It Was?
Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.
The CompStat Evangelist Consultant World Tour
28 maps track the networks of consultancy through which CompStat's architects spread the gospel — often for a tidy fee.
Muted Monumentality
A new Monument to Gay and Transgender People merges strength and fragility, as well as communion and isolation, by the banks of the Hudson River.
Cataloging Comfort
A recently uncovered album reveals some of New York City parks' least exposed precincts — their public bathrooms.
Do You Feel Secure?
For decades, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design has touted the efficacy of bollards, gates, and cameras in deterring violent acts — with scant evidence. At what cost do we build “defensible space”?
Constellating Queer Spaces
How can the ephemeral and mutable geographies of queer urban life be mapped and preserved?