landscape

In 1903 Mine Westbye moved to North Dakota to live a life "so quiet you almost feel afraid."

Creating the myth of the gold rush with the help of daguerreotypists.

White American empire transformed Minnesota into an agricultural and extraction-based economy that uprooted Dakota from their traditional homelands.

Oakland’s lopsided boom.

The ever-shifting curve of shoreline and river is no match for the infinite, idealized straight line.

Hunter-gatherer societies may have a bigger ecological impact than we thought.

A tour through the travel journals that visually document early road trips of the American West.

Willa Cather's life and work broke with the standards of her time.

Engineering put the Crescent City below sea level. Now, its future is at risk.

The Trump administration is working to undo one of the guiding principles of U.S. conservation.

The perspectives of older Americans have dominated the debate. It's time we pay more attention to what younger people have to say.

Why we must ask not only what stories our landscapes of commemoration tell, but also what stories they leave out.

The perfect correspondence of landscape and information can be seen in Ruth Taylor’s 1939 map.

A visual record of the largest aerial bombardment in history.

More than 150 years ago, Frederick Law Olmsted changed how Americans think of public space.

Suburban corporate campuses have isolated themselves by design from the communities their products were supposed to impact.

Until about 100 years ago, grasses up to two feet high blanketed swaths of the Sonoran Desert.

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.

How the New Left, urban renewal, safety concerns, and child psychology affected the design of New York playgrounds.

A meditation from 2007 on the connection between wildfire destruction and suburbanization in California.