Critical Landscapes
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.
Blue Urbanism
Places Journal
Urban planners need to think not just green but also blue. How does the design of cities affect the health of the oceans?
Visualizing Landscapes: In the Terrain of Water
Places Journal
A portfolio exploring the representation of water and landscape, from the Beaux Arts to the digital.
Ecology and Design: Parallel Genealogies
Places Journal
The word “ecology” has been co-opted so widely that it has lost real meaning, yet it remains a powerful lens for designers working with complex adaptive systems.
Lunch with the Critics: Cronocaos
Places Journal
A critical conversation on the new exhibition on preservation curated by OMA/Rem Koolhaas.
Library as Infrastructure
Places Journal
Reading room, social service center, innovation lab. How far can we stretch the public library?
Methodolatry and the Art of Measure
Places Journal
The new wave of urban data science (and solutionism) is trending toward an obsession with data-for-data’s-sake and an idolization of method.
Cartographic Grounds: Projective Landscapes
Places Journal
A new exhibition explores a range of cartographic practices, from a medieval map of the British Isles to contemporary data visualization.
Maps for a Narrative Atlas
Places Journal
A geographer maps the everyday things of a neighborhood, finding poetry in the distribution of wind chimes and the mailman’s delivery route.
Site, Ascendant
Places Journal
On the rising importance of landscape to architecture, seen in works by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Peter Zumthor, OMA, Zaha Hadid, and others.
The Land Up North
Places Journal
For Thanksgiving week, an essay about the cycles of life and land.
From Architecture to Landscape
Places Journal
Landscape architects have begun to venture from the confines of garden, park, and plaza into more adventurous practice. Now the field needs a new name: landscape science.