ARTS and CULTURE
Into the Wild: Nature's NYC
Roberta Brandes Gratz |
A photographic survey of the city’s parkland reveals verdant, untamed places most New Yorkers don’t know are theirs.
A photographic survey of the city’s parkland reveals verdant, untamed places most New Yorkers don’t know are theirs.
An expert in local “progressive community-based planning” explains what that means and how to do it.
Around the city where recreational space is scarce, people are taking to the streets.
A book explores the ideology and influence of Jacob Riis.
A friend and colleague of author Jane Jacobs reviews the icon’s thinking, spurred by a major museum survey of her impact on this city – and all cities.
Attention, voters: the nitty-gritty details of the Giuliani years come rushing back in this survey of his era.
This book documents the history, politics and meaning of undesirable facility placement – and resistance.
A noted urban thinker reminds us what was lost when Robert Moses deemed areas ‘slums’ and tore them down. The third in a series of essays on an ambitious three-part museum exhibit.
A noted urban thinker assesses the continuing debate by city leaders and the great builder’s biographer over the meanings of Moses. The second in a series of essays on an ambitious three-part museum exhibit.
A new video shows NYC how three European cities escaped bondage to the car.