Grad Project Ideas 2024
Bay Migrations
Places Journal
Ditch banks and road ends, straight guts and Delmarva bays. Rural forms show how people live with climate change in the Chesapeake marshlands.
“Nothing without water”
Places Journal
To be poor in Lagos today is to be at constant risk of displacement, as local leaders funnel money and land into exclusive development. Climate change is only making it worse.
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.
The City and the Sea
Places Journal
The landscape and politics of New York City after Hurricane Sandy.
Mangroves on a Landfill
Places Journal
Informal settlers in Baseco, Manila, struggle to win respect and equal partnership in shaping the environmental agenda for their home.
Place of Refuge
Places Journal
For years Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae has been a sanctuary for islanders unable to access conventional shelter. It also belongs to a deep Hawaiian history of resistance, inclusion, and care.
Water Is Wealth
Places Journal
In Honolulu, environmental activists are seeking to remake their city according to Indigenous design knowledge. What is happening in Waikīkī might be a model for a new watershed urbanism.
An Enduring Source of Drinking Water
Places Journal
By the turn of the 20th century, the inadequacy of New York City’s water-provision systems was evident. A more radical solution was needed.
This River Is a Model
Places Journal
In the Netherlands, water management is stubbornly technocratic, driven more by metrics than people. As climate change upends calculations, can planners find new modes of ecological repair?
Why A Marsh
Places Journal
A writer and a scientist trace the deep history of a marsh on the Hudson River, from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age and from the industrial era to our problematic present.
Landscape with Beavers
Places Journal
Beavers have gained a reputation as environmental engineers who can restore water systems — and challenge their human neighbors to think differently about land use.
In the Mississippi Delta: Building with Water
Places Journal
Without massive land-building, the Gulf Coast will disappear. LSU’s Coastal Sustainability Studio tackles the challenges of America’s Third Coast.