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Mythologies of Placemaking
Places Journal
Designers and planners talk about “sense of place,” but this murky buzzword often serves to rally support for redevelopment projects that ignore deep patterns of local culture.
Black Builders
Places Journal
What do we learn about visions of cities when we consider writing and architecture as mutually defining?
Museum, Refinery, Penitentiary
Places Journal
Restored plantations, petrochemical factories, and prison labor all reinforce the continuing legacies of racial capitalism along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.