My Bookmarks
The Green Fuse in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
Places Journal
I did not expect to be transported by a plant growing in a diesely tree-bed, a few feet from a dreary phone store and our steamy local laundromat.
In Pieces
Places Journal
What can you do with a closet-sized plot of overgrown land you didn’t know you’d inherited? In Hawai‘i, old laws that imposed private property continue to produce frictions and fictions of ownership and belonging.
The Architecture of Sports
Places Journal
From signature golf courses to street basketball courts: fields of play are laboratories of spatial invention.
Power Shift
Places Journal
In New Orleans, locals frustrated by an unaccountable energy utility are building a network of community resilience hubs. At the heart of the project is a question: How do we organize power?
Bookshelf: Summer 2025
Places Journal
Recent books on the enduring impacts of women architects, libraries as loci of democracy, histories of economic mutualism, white supremacy in public art, and more.