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The Ecology of Unpredictability
Places Journal
Birch trees clumped in thickets are usually found at derelict and disturbed sites. When landscape architects use this type of planting, are their designs truly ecological? Does it matter?
Untimely Futures
Places Journal
In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.
Zombies and Ghosts
Places Journal
In 21st-century finance capitalism, residential buildings are valued less as homes than as investments. The unsettling results are underpopulated cities and bleak unfinished suburbs.
Ecology and Design: Parallel Genealogies
Places Journal
The word “ecology” has been co-opted so widely that it has lost real meaning, yet it remains a powerful lens for designers working with complex adaptive systems.
“As if they had always been there”
Places Journal
After the family homesteads have been seized, the villages disassembled, and the valleys drowned — decades after the reservoirs have all been built — what do the landscapes look like?
Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 1
Places Journal
The first installment of a narrative survey focusing on the massive move to emergency online instruction.