landscape

NIMBYs were citizen activists who set a model for participatory democracy that YIMBYs should follow.

The hardscrabble origins and unique vision of novelist Willa Cather.

A new documentary photography project grapples with manifestations of a problematic past resurfacing in present-day Alabama.

On the early years of America's chronicler of the Great Plains.

Boston has more "made" land than any other American city.

After navigating a minor hiccup in our own provisioning process, we set out for the West on what would be our longest trip yet.

Earthen Indigenous burial mounds were created in the shape of birds, reptiles and mammals.

Touring the American soul.

In the streets of New York, we try to imagine the city as Walt Whitman, and other artists of his time, experienced it.

What does Hermann’s watchful position over New Ulm—stolen Dakota homelands— reveal about settler colonialism and the geography of memory?

How English words evolved on a foreign continent.

Tracing the transformation of the Great Plains to the widespread belief in “manifest destiny,” and weighing the power of words to shape landscapes.

As America has transformed, so too has its famous footpath. Less than half the A.T. remains where it was originally laid.

Development and dispossession as a two-pronged conquest.

History shows that cities and towns have been poor stewards of what makes them special.

“A camping area is a form, however primitive, of a city” —Constant Nieuwenhuys

On a former plantation in Durham, a land conservancy and two determined sisters are pioneering a model for providing land to Black gardeners and farmers.

Was this Virginia? No one was quite sure.

For thousands of years, Indigenous societies were building hundred-foot pyramids along the Mississippi River.

Dispatches from a spine-tingling day of visits to the places where James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and Thomas Cole created their most famous works.

Lacy M. Johnson walks through a nature center near Houston that has reclaimed the land where a neighborhood, sunken by oil extraction and floodwater, once stood.

How the moons of Mars and the death of a president altered the late nineteenth-century Washington, DC, landscape.

The year 2023 marks the centennial of many iconic L.A. landmarks, including the Hollywood sign, Memorial Coliseum, Biltmore Hotel and the Angelus Temple.

A landscape has come into being through a constellation of resistances to these strategies of control.

When Hollywood went down Argentine way.

Other emigrants such as Wolfe Tone did not compromise their principles in unfamiliar environments.

Today, it’s still nearly impossible to see the Black people whose presence, tramped down for a century and a half, is why this commemorative landscape exists.

Swampland communities established by self-liberated slaves in Louisiana offer a model to cope with climate disruption.

The grass-covered mounds represent 11,000 years of human history.

To renew Yosemite, California should embrace a once-outlawed Indigenous practice.