Habitat and Humanity
Housing and the 99 Percent
Places Journal
How the governmental and banking policies that have structured home ownership across the decades have worked to reflect, mediate, promote, and endanger the American dream.
The Shape of Space
Places Journal
What the orbital space habitats designed for NASA in 1975 can teach us about living in new geometries.
Housing and Hope
Places Journal
The global struggle for housing as a human right emphasizes the relationship of secure housing to personal dignity and full citizenship.
Beyond Foreclosure
Places Journal
Can we transform suburban housing — make it responsive not to dated demographics and wishful economics but to the actual needs of a diverse and dynamic population?
Beautiful and Terrible: Aerial Views of Suburbia
Places Journal
Aerial photographs of the postwar suburban boom in Lakewood, California, were out of date as soon as the prints were dry, but the anxieties they evoked became timeless.
The Domestication of the Garage
Places Journal
J.B. Jackson’s 1976 essay on the evolution of the American garage displays his rare ability to combine deep erudition with eloquent and plainspoken analysis.