My Bookmarks
Reading Detroit in a Season of Mourning
Places Journal
The grassy mounds that dot Detroit might be scrap heaps, or dumping grounds, or piles of ash and brick. But they are also unintentional artifacts in a tradition of monumentality and commemoration.
The Flora of the Future
Places Journal
Celebrating the botanical diversity of cities. A photo survey of urban wild plants.
Eat the City
Places Journal
The case for “civic agriculture” — for reconceptualizing cities as networks of agricultural zones, from parks to allotments.
Design and the Green New Deal
Places Journal
If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline.
Fountain Society
Places Journal
The humble drinking fountain can tell us much about a society’s attitudes towards health, hygiene, equity, and virtue, and about its understanding of public goods and civic responsibilities.
Design’s Invisible Century
Places Journal
It’s time for designers to grapple not just with physical objects but also with the underlying processes that influence our buildings and landscapes.
The Problem with Solutions
Places Journal
We need to engage troubled landscapes without presuming to fix them. Notes toward a history of non-solutionist design.