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Unforgetting Women Architects
Places Journal
It’s time to write women architects back into the history of architecture — starting with Wikipedia.
Hippie Modernism
Places Journal
In the late 1960s, Bay Area design activists sought to blend the aspirations of progressive architecture with new environmental imperatives — a goal that’s more relevant than ever.
Manila’s “Danger Areas”
Places Journal
Clearing urban waterways creates new challenges for the city’s most vulnerable inhabitants.
An Appalachian Trail
Places Journal
In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was more than a hiking path. It was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.
Rexford Tugwell and the Case for Big Urbanism
Places Journal
New York City’s first planning commissioner lost a bigger battle against Robert Moses than the fight Jane Jacobs won.
What I Learned from Architect Barbie
Places Journal
Why can’t architects wear pink? An activist historian explores the feminist politics that inspired the new career of the famous doll.
Beyond the Pritzker
Places Journal
A call to translate the widespread awareness of gender inequality into a political campaign with concrete goals — for instance, truly progressive family leave policies.
Trumping the Triangle
Places Journal
Washington has long struggled to reconcile lofty national ideals with quotidian urban interests. No part of the capital better reveals this tension than the Federal Triangle.
Housing Banda Aceh After Disaster
Places Journal
A decade after the Indonesian tsunami, a devastated city rebuilds. What can rehousing initiatives teach us about the ongoing struggle for urban resilience?
Public and Common(s)
Places Journal
A philosophical view of the terms public and commons, from the 20th-century treatises of Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas to recent books by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.
The Demagogue Takes the Stage
Places Journal
The 45th president of the United States rose to power using the stage, the props and scenery, of white nationalist patriarchy. To build democracy, we must disassemble the stage.
The Housing Question
Places Journal
A debate inspired by the controversial MoMA exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream.