My Bookmarks
Notes Toward a History of Non-Planning
Places Journal
The argument about the strength of government and the freedom of the marketplace has been boiling for decades. It is more relevant than ever.
A Tiny Toy Telescope
Places Journal
Two American photographers play with deep cultural fantasies about wilderness and expedition.
Placing Memory
Places Journal
A new book juxtaposes contemporary color photos of abandoned Japanese-American internment camps with period images.
Camera In Camera
Places Journal
Abelardo Morell’s images are enchanting and disorienting, as the spectacle of public life is overlaid upon the realm of private experience, and the two are shown to be inextricably linked.
Levees That Might Have Been
Places Journal
A history of forgotten inventions that would have produced a very different landscape along American rivers.
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.
A Short History of the Campsite
Places Journal
A landscape historian traces the story of the campground, from early wilderness caravans to today’s domesticated sites.
Cisco Trash Map
Places Journal
On railroads, oil rigs, uranium mines, 7-11 pizzas, Thelma and Louise, ruination, salvage, and the limits of the garbage gaze.
A Fortuitous Shadow
Places Journal
In architecture as in politics, debates about identity — regional, national, international — are fraught.
Frank Gohlke: Thoughts on Landscape
Places Journal
A review of Thoughts on Landscape, collected writings by the photographer Frank Gohlke.
“Devoted forever to popular resort and recreation”
Places Journal
The Trump administration is working to undo one of the guiding principles of U.S. conservation: that the nation’s great national parks should be accessible to the broadest possible public.
New (and Old) Topographics
Places Journal
Archival photographs complement the restaging of the groundbreaking 1975 show New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
Visualization of Renewable Energy in the Postwar Era
Places Journal
Today’s energy debates go back to the postwar era, when scientists argued that shifting away from fossil fuels was not just technically feasible but also ethically necessary.
Making it Right in the Lower Ninth Ward
Places Journal
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation pledged to rebuild one of New Orleans’ poorest neighborhoods. Has it lived up to its name?