Places publishes some of the very best writing and photography, but its almost radical proposition of delivering intelligently edited content is what sets the journal apart. Places is irreplaceable as the accountable, passionate, and contemporary voice driving the debate about our cities and landscapes.

Places builds strong connections between academia, the professions, and the public, and it does so at an international scale. It is a model of what publishing can and should be.

Working with Places Journal has been the most personally rewarding and professionally valuable experience of my fifteen-year publishing career. With its interdisciplinary global reach and gorgeously designed platform, Places offers the most meaningful and sustainable model for writing about design and landscape in the public realm.

Where else can you get design, anti-design, post-design, no design, design criticism, criticism on criticism, design research, research by design, uber design, infra, ultra, inter and intra design, all in the one place?

Places not only increases people’s knowledge about the crucial role environments play in our lives; it also exemplifies intelligent web-based debate about a broad spectrum of topics and attitudes in architecture, landscape, and urbanism. And on all these fields it offers far and away the best writing.

Places is essential reading for scholars — for anyone — interested in the world around them. It’s become the New Yorker of the built and natural environment.

Places has created a vibrant forum for authors and readers seeking a fresh, multidisciplinary view of the designed environment.

During my years as a student, Places emerged as my go-to resource for innovative research in landscape architecture — and now, as a practitioner, it remains as vital as ever for my work.