Art
Documenting Ridgewood's Abandoned Tree Beds
Alexa Hoyer captures the remnants of tree trunks in the Queens neighborhood in accidentally artistic tableaux.
Urban Enivonment
Art
A Moss Wall with the Pollution-Eating Power of 275 Trees
The CityTree is a pop-up moss wall capable of consuming as much air pollution in an urban environment as a small forest.
Art
Using Google Street View Data to Track Urban Trees
MIT's project Treepedia maps the protective green canopy of trees in cities around the world, and the places where this nature is missing.
Books
How the Bulldozer Smoothed Postwar America into a Blank Slate
Demolition and construction following World War II radically altered the landscape of the United States, and one machine in particular allowed for such a dramatic overhaul.
Art
The Homes, Parks, and Towns that Shaped the United States' Built Environment
The built environment of the United State was constructed on grand ideas, including parks that inspired morality, towns designed to curb strikes, and homes that offered everyone their own slice of the land.
Art
A Photographer Visits the Contemporary Landscape of Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow"
"[American scenery] has its own peculiar charm — a something not found elsewhere," the 19th century painter Thomas Cole once wrote.