February reads
Soup and Sympathy
Places Journal
A mainstay of Los Angeles Chinatown, Won Kok Restaurant has become a gathering place for the city’s queers and Filipinos. Who and what activated this accidental ambience of belonging?
The City Was All I Had
Places Journal
Ambitious literature and public policy each seek to shape reality. Few places embody the power of artists and policymakers to arrange space and time more persuasively than Washington, D.C.
“The poorest details of the world resurfaced”
Places Journal
Using a drone-mounted camera, in his latest book Stephen Shore continues his photographic survey of the everyday American landscape.
David Goldblatt and the Indeterminate Landscape
Places Journal
The South African David Goldblatt spent seven decades photographing the still-unfinished project of building equitable cities, towns, and infrastructures in his nation — and beyond.
Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes
Places Journal
People who study, design, or care for landscapes need to become experts at the techniques, knowledges, and ethics of bending time.