Faves
Soup and Sympathy
Places Journal
A mainstay of Los Angeles Chinatown, Won Kok Restaurant has become a gathering place for the city’s queers and Filipinos. Who and what activated this accidental ambience of belonging?
Border/Town
Places Journal
Bemidji, Minnesota, is a border town. Every place was, at one time or another, or perhaps is still, a border town. It depends on who you are and where you’re standing.
Field Notes on Repair: 1
Places Journal
The first installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.
Field Notes on Repair: 2
Places Journal
The second installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.
This River Is a Model
Places Journal
In the Netherlands, water management is stubbornly technocratic, driven more by metrics than people. As climate change upends calculations, can planners find new modes of ecological repair?
The Displaced
Places Journal
For decades, Norway and Sweden forcibly displaced the Indigenous Northern Sámi from their ancestral lands. The ensuing migrations have torn Sámi society apart from within.
“The poorest details of the world resurfaced”
Places Journal
Using a drone-mounted camera, in his latest book Stephen Shore continues his photographic survey of the everyday American landscape.
Bay Migrations
Places Journal
Ditch banks and road ends, straight guts and Delmarva bays. Rural forms show how people live with climate change in the Chesapeake marshlands.
Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes
Places Journal
People who study, design, or care for landscapes need to become experts at the techniques, knowledges, and ethics of bending time.
Water Is Wealth
Places Journal
In Honolulu, environmental activists are seeking to remake their city according to Indigenous design knowledge. What is happening in Waikīkī might be a model for a new watershed urbanism.
Utu in the Anthropocene
Places Journal
How are colonial landscapes to be redesigned? To answer this question, begin with the Māori concept of reciprocity, the foundation for the valuation of all beings, human and non-human.
The Ecology of Unpredictability
Places Journal
Birch trees clumped in thickets are usually found at derelict and disturbed sites. When landscape architects use this type of planting, are their designs truly ecological? Does it matter?
Museum, Refinery, Penitentiary
Places Journal
Restored plantations, petrochemical factories, and prison labor all reinforce the continuing legacies of racial capitalism along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.