Explore American neighborhoods through the places people share: a market hall, a river crossing, a public square or a familiar building with a longer story.
New York / Public spaces
Union Square: how a junction became a civic gathering place ↗David Shankbone · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized; thumbnails may be cropped.
Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized; thumbnails may be cropped.
Lot sizes, front gardens and successive building campaigns explain more of this New Orleans neighborhood than a checklist of famous residents.
Bob Collowan · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized; thumbnails may be cropped.
San Francisco’s waterfront promenade sits on the infrastructure of a historic port and faces new engineering demands.
King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized; thumbnails may be cropped.
Boston Common’s long history includes grazing, military occupation, burial and public protest as well as recreation.
Waterfront Park gives central Charleston a public harbor edge organized around a pier, lawns, shade and fountains.
Jim Reynolds from Cleveland, USA · CC BY 2.0. Resized; thumbnails may be cropped.
Food shops and reused industrial buildings preserve different parts of the Strip’s trading history.
Jonmallard · CC BY 4.0. Resized; thumbnails may be cropped.
Baltimore City Hall is a visible civic landmark whose exterior can be studied separately from the arrangements for entering a working government building.
Read the streets, buildings and overlapping histories of city neighborhoods.
↗39Explore squares, parks and the places where public life takes shape.
↗46Look at architecture through its materials, uses and changes over time.
↗20Understand market buildings, trading districts and the people who use them.
↗26Follow rivers, bridges and former transport corridors through the city.
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