landscape

Children’s stories set on the coast suggest a wilder way of life.

Steps from Georgetown, a memorial to Teddy Roosevelt stands amid ghosts of previous inhabitants: the Nacotchtank, colonist enslavers, and the emancipated.

One man's role in shaping the nation's best-loved long-distance footpath reminds us of the close bonds that Jews have formed with the North American landscape.

Originally built as barriers between fields and farms, the region’s abandoned farmstead walls have since become the binding threads of its cultural fabric.

For decades, locals believed landscape architect Jens Jensen designed this twisty stretch of Highway 42—the real history is even more serpentine.

"To render the world more beautiful than it really is, as so many landscape photographers before Adams routinely did, is dishonest."

Kim Stanley Robinson on how the High Sierra has influenced his science fiction.

Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.

Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape creations, especially his urban parks, remain a vital part of our present.

Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.

At Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texans flex their go-it-alone style.

For historian Russell Shorto, it was all about water.

On Robert Moses, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the culture of environmental waste.

Forest fires of 1910 sparked a media-driven fire exclusion policy, which has arguably worsened today's "fire problem."

A scene of conflict that was lost to the ages has been unearthed, assembling an indigenous perspective on events at the very root of America’s founding.

From ancient Native American trails to billion-year-old rocks, take an in-depth look at the thousands of years of history housed inside this iconic park.

Charles Ives and the visual.

On the native prairies of North America, green is the problem.

On the 50th anniversary of “Chinatown” and the beginning of the end of petromodernity.

How the focus on Harlem obfuscated Black culture in the Midwest.

On the meaning and use of rivers and other waterways.

In the wake of the 1964 Harlem riots, June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s plan to redesign the neighborhood suggested new possibilities for urban life.

A poignant connection between the erosions of landscape and memory at a former Japanese internment camp in California.

Climate change, colonization, and the Navajo Nation.

Native son Jonah Walters finds something entirely too innocent about the tales told about the anthracite industry’s origins.

Space and place in New York City's responses to the French Revolution.

Remembering the river helps me forget, at least for a moment, the challenges, fears, and feelings of inadequacy I experienced in my childhood.

Mexicali’s "Colorado River Family Album" documents what is no more.

San Diego's city-wide mission to promote sustainability, combat climate change, and reduce environmental health disparities.

Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed, a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home.