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Dakota Is Everywhere
Places Journal
The fracking boom in North Dakota is transforming the prairie and disrupting the lives of the people who live there.
Heartland
Places Journal
Aerial photographs of the disturbed, cultivated, militarized landscapes of the American Midwest.
Taking the Measure of a Forest
Places Journal
Maple Grove is so small you could learn its trees in an afternoon. But run a transect through the site, and you’ll find a forest preserve shaped by millennia of human settlement and plant evolution.
The "Indianized" Landscape of Massachusetts
Places Journal
The inclusion of Native American names and sites in civic geography near Boston has obscured the violence of dispossession.
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.
Wild Rice Waters
Places Journal
The decline of wild rice in Minnesota is a story of settler colonialism and tribal displacement. The resurgence of the harvest seeks to tell another story, one of tribal kinship and ecological stewardship.
City Ground
Places Journal
The making of geological strata — the very ground beneath feet — is an essential component of the mass shift of humankind to urban living.
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.
Toward a Political Ecology of Architecture
Places Journal
As a profession and a practice, architecture can no longer ignore the toxic pollution of its supply chains, or the abuses that take place on building and manufacturing sites.
Traces of Traces
Places Journal
On the documentation of military landscapes by four American photographers: Richard Misrach, Jan Faul, Peter Goin, and David Hanson.
The Evil, Evil Grain Elevator
Places Journal
An analysis of the very different ways in which works of sculpture and works of architecture occupy the landscape.
American Barn
Places Journal
The traditional wooden barn persists as a symbol of prosperity, rectitude, and connection to the land even as family farms have been almost entirely replaced by multinational agribusiness.
Across the Threshold: Calcutta
Places Journal
In her photographs of Kolkata, Laura McPhee averts her camera from the obvious strains of rapid redevelopment; her pictures explore the complex layering of colonial, native, immigrant, and global textures.
Approaching Calcutta
Places Journal
Photographs of a once great but now peripheral city, where planning unfolds as if without a map.
The Middle of Everywhere
Places Journal
In the Flint Hills of Kansas there are cattle ranches and art galleries, old barns and new architecture, ghost towns and growing cities. And there is the last stand of tallgrass prairie in America.
Indiana Nature Notes
Places Journal
Patrolled by flitting birds and held together by invasive spurge, the ever-shifting sand dunes off the shore of Lake Michigan hold metaphors for social change — and in this change: hope.
The Half-Life of History
Places Journal
A writer and photographer document the ruined military base where the U.S. Air Force trained for the bombing of Hiroshima.