Places Editors

The biennial prize supports innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment.

We invite writers living on the front lines of climate change to report on the ways that their communities are experiencing and responding to environmental crises.

The School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon, the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney, and the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech have joined Places’ network of academic partners.

We stand with those now organizing to resist the normalization of a president-elect whose dangerous agenda threatens to reverse decades of progress, or worse.

Places Journal has been awarded a grant from the Vilcek Foundation to support a major new article on the immigrant experience in America, focusing on Latino Urbanism in Los Angeles.

On October 14, the Kresge Foundation hosted a panel discussion, “Inequality in America’s Cities,” sparked by Places’ series on urban inequality, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Watch the discussion now.

Places Journal has received a second grant from the Kresge Foundation to support our ongoing series, “The Inequality Chronicles.”

Catch up with our photography on Instagram, where we’ll be featuring images from our articles and slideshows.

The College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, has joined Places’ network of academic partners.

Places Journal has received a grant from the Graham Foundation that will build our capacity to support the work of writers.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s School of Architecture and the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas have joined Places’ network of academic partners.

We celebrate the launch of Places Books with events on April 19, at the Center for Architecture in New York City, and April 27, at the AIA San Francisco.

Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Stanford’s Architectural Design Program have joined Places’ network of academic partners.

Places and the Douglas C. Allen Institute are launching a new series in honor of the late Doug Allen, Georgia Tech professor of landscape architecture and Places board member.

The University of Miami School of Architecture is now a member of Places Journal’s international network of academic partners.

As part of our commitment to public scholarship and innovative practice, we encourage readers to share topical lists of articles and books in their areas of interest and expertise.

Places Journal has been awarded a grant from the Kresge Foundation to support “The Inequality Chronicles,” a series of articles that will explore American cities in an era of economic stratification unprecedented in our modern history.

Douglas C. Allen, beloved professor, visionary landscape architect, and valued board member of Places Journal, died on October 26, 2014, from brain cancer.

The new series, a collaboration with Princeton University Press, will present smart, lively, peer-reviewed titles on architecture, landscape, and urbanism.

What is the future of big data and the city? Leading practitioners and scholars will gather for a symposium at Pratt Institute on October 11, 2014.

Places receives a Graham Foundation grant to support Future Archive, a series focusing on major but neglected 20th-century scholarship.

Remembering the influential artist, designer, author and educator, who was a valued member of Places Journal’s board of directors.

Our new series, “History of the Present,” will focus on cities undergoing profound transitions as a result of extraordinary political, social, economic, and environmental challenges.

Remembering a longstanding friend and supporter of Places, who served as publisher of the print journal and later as treasurer.

Constant, a professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of Michigan, joins Renata Hejduk of Arizona State University as peer review co-editor.

Places Journal seeks articles that explore the complex dynamic of public and private, and how this influences the production of buildings, landscapes, and cities.