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Empire Loves a Dark Sky
Places Journal
In Texas and Lebanon, darkness is an ecological commons turned strategic military asset.
Traces of Traces
Places Journal
On the documentation of military landscapes by four American photographers: Richard Misrach, Jan Faul, Peter Goin, and David Hanson.
Blessed is the Spot
Places Journal
In a militarized territory like Guam, everything is political, even cancer.
The Half-Life of History
Places Journal
A writer and photographer document the ruined military base where the U.S. Air Force trained for the bombing of Hiroshima.
Stewarding Black Worlds
Places Journal
Scholars of Black placekeeping discuss ways of mapping Black-founded towns, focusing on the cultural landscapes through which residents and diasporic communities sustain themselves.
"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.
A Nation of Walls
Places Journal
An artist-activist catalogues the physical remnants and political legacies of “segregation walls,” unassuming bits of racist infrastructure that hide in plain sight in American neighborhoods.