[4][5][6] Seeking "complications rather than solutions", Easterling's book Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World (2021) "rethinks ways of addressing the planet's most intractable problems.

A previous book, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America, applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats.

Easterling is also the author (with archivist, writer, and filmmaker Rick Prelinger) of Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built, a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning.

She has completed two research installations on the Web that explore alternative methods and documents for adjusting urban space: "Wildcards: A Game of Orgman" and "Highline: Plotting NYC."

Her work has been published in journals such as Grey Room, Volume, Cabinet, Assemblage, Log, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, Perspecta, Metalocus, and ANY.