Climate, Vernacular, Degrowth
Housing Agency
Places Journal
Opposed to top-down solutions, John F. C. Turner believed that architects and planners of housing should empower the people who will live in it. His ideas remain startlingly radical today.
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.
Bird on Fire: The World’s Least Sustainable City
Places Journal
A sociologist-critic analyzes the strange mix of freewheeling libertarianism and federal largesse that shaped modern Phoenix.
The Trouble with Consumption
Places Journal
The contradictions between capitalist needs and ecological imperatives are impossible to ignore. How might the tenets of alternative hedonism foster new mandates for radical political change?
Hippie Modernism
Places Journal
In the late 1960s, Bay Area design activists sought to blend the aspirations of progressive architecture with new environmental imperatives — a goal that’s more relevant than ever.