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The Modern Urbanism of Cook's Camden
Places Journal
The council housing designed 50 years ago for a progressive London borough remains a potent symbol of the achievements of postwar social democracy.
Library as Infrastructure
Places Journal
Reading room, social service center, innovation lab. How far can we stretch the public library?
Please Save Modernism from the Modern
Places Journal
Why the Folk Art Museum is a great modernist building, and why the Museum of Modern Art should reverse its decision to tear it down.
Past Perfect: Four Freedoms Park
Places Journal
On the controversial politics of presidential memorials, from Kahn to Halprin to Gehry.
Housing Chicago: Cabrini-Green to Parkside of Old Town
Places Journal
Chicago has demolished its high-rise public housing projects and replaced them with mixed-income, new urbanist style communities. But where have the displaced tenants gone?