Reading List

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Jonathan Lowell

University of Texas at Austin

Urban Ecology


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    Design and the Green New Deal

    Places Journal

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

  • Online

    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.

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    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.

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    Tent City, America

    Places Journal

    Tent cities are now so common that advocates are campaigning to make them semi-permanent settlements of micro-housing. But is this a genuine solution or a cheap fix?

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    Mardi Gras and the Racial Geography of New Orleans

    Places Journal

    The Rex and Zulu parades, and the complicated racial settlement of the Crescent City.

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