June 2015
Beyond Google Earth
Places Journal
Satellite imagery might seem neutral, but it is constructed by systems which not only present but also transform the raw visual data.
Zone: The Spatial Softwares of Extrastatecraft
Places Journal
The phenomenal rise of the free zone, an opportunistic urban hybrid that has powered the rise of glittering world cities like Singapore and Dubai.
Housing and the Cooperative Commonwealth
Places Journal
In America we have an escalating crisis of housing affordability — yet we are overlooking one of the best and most basic solutions.
Landscape Migration
Places Journal
We are now well into a geologic era — the Anthropocene — characterized by the acceleration of environmental change. This is the landscape medium in which we design.
The iUrbanisms of Los Angeles
Places Journal
For ambitious L.A. architects, city talk has gone deeply out of fashion. Yet insightful protagonists continue to seek a better future for L.A. architecture vis-à-vis L.A. urbanism.
The Infrastructural City
Places Journal
Los Angeles depends upon vast infrastructural systems that are breathtakingly complex, yet vulnerable to disruption, even disaster.
Places Journal
The Village Against the World
Places Journal
Inside the Andalusian village that has been working — successfully — to create a communist utopia.
Building Data
Places Journal
Metadata as history? The team behind Archipedia grapples with the critical challenges of digital scholarship.