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The City's Beach, Run by the People
Places Journal
Lincoln Beach once provided the only waterfront access for Black residents of New Orleans. Despite decades of city neglect, it remains a joyful, if contested, haven for ritual and play.
Comb Sisters
Places Journal
Unwed women in China’s Canton Delta found autonomy and sisterhood in gupouks, innovative communal homes that emerged in tandem with the industrialization of silk-making.
Shade
Places Journal
It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers.
Manchester: History of the Present
Places Journal
The city that was the global epicenter of the Industrial Revolution is now being remade by globalized post-industrial capital. This is one of the great spectacles of contemporary Britain.
A Nation of Walls
Places Journal
An artist-activist catalogues the physical remnants and political legacies of “segregation walls,” unassuming bits of racist infrastructure that hide in plain sight in American neighborhoods.
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.
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.
Wild Rice Waters
Places Journal
The decline of wild rice in Minnesota is a story of settler colonialism and tribal displacement. The resurgence of the harvest seeks to tell another story, one of tribal kinship and ecological stewardship.
Along the Sucusari River
Places Journal
For centuries the Maijuna of Peru have struggled against colonial subjugation and cultural imperialism. Today the few hundred that remain are determined to protect their ancestral lands.
Salmonscape
Places Journal
California’s Central Valley Chinook migrate through state and federal water projects. As they map this sprawling isoscape, they also change it. They are landscape makers in every sense.