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American Barn
Places Journal
The traditional wooden barn persists as a symbol of prosperity, rectitude, and connection to the land even as family farms have been almost entirely replaced by multinational agribusiness.
Living Freedom Through the Maroon Landscape
Places Journal
A vital chapter in the protohistory of American landscape design, the swampland communities established by self-liberated slaves are a powerful model for coping with climate disruption.
Why A Marsh
Places Journal
A writer and a scientist trace the deep history of a marsh on the Hudson River, from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age and from the industrial era to our problematic present.
Mitigations
Places Journal
In the coal country of Southeast Ohio, the past is a renewable resource, growing larger every year.
The Land Where Birds Are Grown
Places Journal
A visit to the engineered wetlands of California’s intensively cultivated Central Valley.
Eat the City
Places Journal
The case for “civic agriculture” — for reconceptualizing cities as networks of agricultural zones, from parks to allotments.
Landscape Migration
Places Journal
We are now well into a geologic era — the Anthropocene — characterized by the acceleration of environmental change. This is the landscape medium in which we design.
The Problem with Solutions
Places Journal
We need to engage troubled landscapes without presuming to fix them. Notes toward a history of non-solutionist design.
In the Mississippi Delta: Building with Water
Places Journal
Without massive land-building, the Gulf Coast will disappear. LSU’s Coastal Sustainability Studio tackles the challenges of America’s Third Coast.
Blue Urbanism
Places Journal
Urban planners need to think not just green but also blue. How does the design of cities affect the health of the oceans?