With an engaged and extensive international readership, Places Journal is widely recognized as an essential and trusted resource on the future of architecture, landscape, and urbanism.
Our mission is to harness the moral and investigative power of public scholarship to promote equitable cities and resilient landscapes.
Founded at MIT and Berkeley in 1983, Places has deep associations with leading design faculties around the world. Bridging from the university to the profession to the public, our articles combine the scope and immediacy of serious journalism with the precision and depth of scholarship.
Cities that are growing and cities that are shrinking, environmental health and social equity, climate change, resource scarcity, technological innovation — all demand that we rethink how we plan, design, construct, and maintain the built environment. These challenges also demand that serious design scholarship move from the margins to the center of the larger cultural discussion.
Academic Partners enjoy the opportunity to make key organizational decisions, collaborate with peer institutions, and inform a dynamic conversation about the future of design.
Academic Partners have a seat on our Board of Directors and enjoy full voting rights.
Academic Partners receive teaching materials designed by Places’ editors and the opportunity for selected students to participate in Places’ Writing + Editorial Workshops.
Academic Partners are acknowledged on nearly every page across the site, and represented on a dedicated page with institutional biographies, logos, and links.
Academic Partners can promote their news on Places Wire, which highlights major events, initiatives, publications, and stories about our Partners and their faculties, alongside news of general interest to the field. Wire items also circulate on Twitter under the hashtag #placeswire.
Academic Partners make possible the ongoing enrichment of an extensive and easily searchable archive of substantial articles, accessible to everyone with no paywall, and the creation of valuable new initiatives including topical Reading Lists.
Academic Partners will be acknowledged in all volumes of Places Books, our collaborative imprint with Princeton University Press.
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We’ve teamed up with our partners at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas to present the Fall 2020 Virtual Lecture series on equity in the built environment.
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Twenty-six short essays on the theme of “Architecture, Urbanism, Pandemics,” by the participants of the inaugural Places Journal Summer Writing + Editorial Workshop.
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A deep and growing repository of interdisciplinary scholarship, narrative journalism, essays, criticism, and photography. New articles are published weekly.
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Features include Future Archive, which introduces 20th century writings on design, History of the Present, on global cities in transition, and The Inequality Chronicles, on the challenges facing contemporary U.S. cities.
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