Reading List

My Bookmarks

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  Design’s Invisible Century

  Thomas Fisher

  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.

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  Design and the Green New Deal

  Billy Fleming

  Places Journal

  If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline.

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  Field Notes on Design Activism: 2

  Brandi T. Summers, Jeremy Till, Peggy Deamer, Jeffrey Hou, Daniel A. Barber, Dahlia Nduom, James Graham, Nora Wendl, Cassim Shepard, Andrea Roberts, Sara Jensen Carr, David Theodore

  Places Journal

  The second installment of a narrative survey in which practitioners and educators share perspectives on the intensifying demands for change across design pedagogy and practice.

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  Designed-In Safety

  Barbara Penner

  Places Journal

  The radical reformers who sought to redesign the American bathroom, and the inhibitions and taboos that got in the way.

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  Venture Design

  Stephen Luoni

  Places Journal

  A profile of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, a laboratory for the creative retrofitting of postwar suburbia.

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  Ecology and Design: Parallel Genealogies

  Chris Reed & Nina-Marie Lister

  Places Journal

  The word “ecology” has been co-opted so widely that it has lost real meaning, yet it remains a powerful lens for designers working with complex adaptive systems.

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  Designed Landscapes

  Ken McCown

  Places Journal

  Photographs of designed structures and landscapes, from La Jolla to Marfa, from Hadrian’s Villa to Storm King.