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With natural gas dependency on the rise, thousands of miles of pipe connect New York City to a vast and dangerous geography of extraction. Our inaugural Urban Wild Writer in Residence reports from the four mounds of the future Freshkills Park. Examining New Yorks overlooked infrastructures of crime and punishment. Questions of ownership, affordability, and political representation converge in current struggles over rent regulation. Many architects and urbanists are asking how their tools might be most effectively deployed in order to resist the violent oppression of marginalized communities, and how this effort might need to look different today than it has in the past. Buildings are responsible for two thirds of greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. Can tenants, landlords, and environmentalists What can a city on the edge of another large scale energy transformation learn from the history of gas? This iframe contains the logic required to handle Ajax powered Gravity Forms. Architects and artists put New York City’s sprawling justice system into perspective. Arrest sends New Yorkers down a complex path, away from their families, homes, and neighborhoods, oftentimes ending in jail. A Photographer Kris Graves tracks all 77 NYPD precincts from Tottenville to Edenwald, looking to these buildings — sometimes humble, sometimes imposing — for the face and footprint of law and order in the neighborhood. A huge range of emergent technologies give police new ways to gather data and surveil. What's on the market?