“It’s remarkable that a city as diverse as New York doesn’t do more to honor that diversity by planting a wider variety of public fruit trees that reflect the people…
Asphalt contributes to the urban heat island effect and makes places more prone to flooding. Planners are rethinking its place in cities. This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News.
Across the country, cities are transforming asphalt schoolyards into spongy, shady community centers. The new playground at PS 184M Shuang Wen School in Manhattan’s Chinatown, for example, has a porous…
