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Environment as Politics
Places Journal
A visual study of the relation between residential density and voting behavior in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Balancing America’s (Sediment) Budget
Places Journal
The promethean geo-engineering of our river systems has resulted in the catastrophic erosion of American coasts. What can be done?
What Happens After the Worst Happens?
Places Journal
New photographs of Mount St. Helens, alongside classic views by Frank Gohlke, show the land’s extraordinary response after the 1980 eruption.
Above Grade: On the High Line
Places Journal
A native New Yorker traces the pre-history of the High Line, and ponders whether the celebrated park will be a victim of its success.
Storm Season
Places Journal
The fragile and changing landscapes of the barrier islands of southern Louisiana.
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.
Maintenance and Care
Places Journal
A working guide to the repair of rust, dust, cracks, and corrupted code in our cities, our homes, and our social relations.
Willful Waters
Places Journal
Los Angeles and its river have long been enmeshed in an epic struggle for control.
Mapping’s Intelligent Agents
Places Journal
How do machine intelligences read and write the world? And what Other intelligences deserve our attention?
Champion Trees and Urban Forests
Places Journal
Personal epiphanies, tree farming, and a plan to save the planet: a review of “The Man Who Planted Trees.”
Curious Methods
Places Journal
On the mud flat of the Great Salt Lake, two landscape researchers follow Gregory Bateson and Bruno Munari in search of a mode of practice that “probes” but does not “prove.”
Cloud and Field
Places Journal
On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age. We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars?
Control Earth
Places Journal
What is Earth’s baseline temperature? Good question. The climate scenario ‘historicalNat’ simulates a world without human intervention.
Speculative Archaeology
Places Journal
Faux-ethnographic dioramas, modern interiors reimagined as psychedelic ruin-worlds, invented histories of proto-architecture: archaeology, as model or metaphor, has been surfacing a lot in art practice and design theory.
The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments
Places Journal
Inside the material archives of climate science, which get wilder and dirtier the deeper you go.