Infrastructure
Impossible City: New Orleans
Places Journal
Sometimes you see a picture and you can tell that something’s missing, but you don’t know what it is.
After the Storm: Climate Change and Public Works
Places Journal
The accelerating crisis of climate change suggests a newly intensified political agenda for design activism.
Levees That Might Have Been
Places Journal
A history of forgotten inventions that would have produced a very different landscape along American rivers.
Thirsty City
Places Journal
An environmental historian assesses the massive infrastructure that brings water to the American West — and makes it possible to take a shower in Los Angeles.
What We Learned from Hurricane Isaac, Gustav, Rita, Katrina...
Places Journal
As the Gulf Coast has been hit by one hurricane after another, its residents have gained a rigorous — if unwilling — place-based education. But the toughest test is still to come.