Culture
Issue 3
The Power of Place
The indelible mark of neighborhoods
Highlights from the Journal
Editors' Note: Issue 3
Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman
What makes a city tick?
The Public Square: Politics, Safety and Common Space
Ted Alcorn
A continuing push and pull over how to manage spaces that all New Yorkers use
Measures of Urban Vitality
A Survey
How can we tell when cities are thriving?
The Fault Lines of Race and Place: A Conversation with Elijah Anderson
Jelani Cobb
On Black people, white spaces and cities
Architecture and Social Change: A Conversation with Jeanne Gang
Elizabeth Glazer
Connecting people and neighborhoods by design
'Collective Action Can Make a Difference': A Conversation with Robert Sampson
Elizabeth Glazer
On disadvantage, race and neighborhood vitality
Journal Issues
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Gun Violence in New York City: The Data
What to Do About Closing Rikers
In our first special report, public safety veterans Elizabeth Glazer and Michael Jacobson provide a detailed, data-grounded roadmap to close Rikers Island that would simultaneously:
Sunday in the Park with Everybody
We asked radio producer Ike Sriskandarajah and artist photographer Azikiwe Mohammed to capture some of the sights and sounds of Brooklyn’s most iconic greenspace, Prospect Park. What they produced is a sonic-photographic essay, a sensory experience of the people, places and natural beauty at the heart of Kings County.