Domestic
The Domestication of the Garage
Places Journal
J.B. Jackson’s 1976 essay on the evolution of the American garage displays his rare ability to combine deep erudition with eloquent and plainspoken analysis.
"Housing Is Everybody's Problem"
Places Journal
Largely forgotten today, Morris Milgram was a pioneer of multiracial suburban housing. His legacy in the fight for fair housing in America deserves to be remembered.
Housing and the 99 Percent
Places Journal
How the governmental and banking policies that have structured home ownership across the decades have worked to reflect, mediate, promote, and endanger the American dream.
The Flexible Heart of the Home
Places Journal
Issues of gender, disability, and user-centeredness have long been relegated to the margins of design history. A new look at postwar home economics complicates the prevailing narratives.