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Maps
How to Map New York City
A lot of art and a little science went into representing fifteen years of Urban Omnibus stories on a map of New York City.
A Bigger Picture
Piecing together land use laws from coast to coast, the National Zoning Atlas illustrates the need for reform.
Where Can the Public Bathrooms Go in New York City?
Creating 3,000 more places to go can be transformative for people's dignity and the quality of the public realm. But actually implementing a citywide restroom network requires solutions that address each neighborhood's specific needs.
Concentrated Cleanup
Since 2009, New York City has been incentivizing private cleanup of contaminated sites. Who benefits?
Traffic Patterns
In an unlikely design magazine, New Jersey’s thickly settled geography provides a guide to divining the metropolis of the future.
Across Currents
With a mandate to decarbonize the city’s building stock, how can New Yorkers reconcile a transition to so-called clean energy with the environmental and cultural impacts of extraction beyond the city’s borders?
Withdrawn Waters
The balance between New York City's public and private pools has shifted dramatically in recent decades. Why has so much city swimming retreated into towers or behind fences?
Traces Along the Edge
An artist and an architect collaborate to visualize the landscapes along New York City’s perimeter, depicting a city rarely seen or heard.
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.