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Lost Water
Places Journal
The desert city of Amman is running out of water. Meanwhile, officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dysfunction can be escaped rather than addressed.
Utu in the Anthropocene
Places Journal
How are colonial landscapes to be redesigned? To answer this question, begin with the Māori concept of reciprocity, the foundation for the valuation of all beings, human and non-human.
Memories of Water
Places Journal
In the small towns of West Bengal and Bangladesh, every pond has stories to tell — of waterbirds and wetland plants, of family memory, colonialist history, and climate change.
Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes
Places Journal
People who study, design, or care for landscapes need to become experts at the techniques, knowledges, and ethics of bending time.
Abolish Oil
Places Journal
What must be abolished so democracy may finally rise? Oil — as an industry and as a form of social organization.
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.