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Climate Boomtowns and Receiver Cities
Places Journal
In the next decades, climate migration will redraw the demographic map of America. Two recent books tell an unsettling story of migration and displacement that is already underway.
Tapia, Tabbi, Tabique, Tabby
Places Journal
Made by enslaved Black people using oyster shells from Indigenous middens, tabby concrete reflects the flow of centuries of capital, labor, and knowledge throughout the Atlantic World.
Library as Infrastructure
Places Journal
Reading room, social service center, innovation lab. How far can we stretch the public library?
Learning from Soul City
Places Journal
Half a century ago, a multiracial new town envisioned by a leading Black activist was one of the most ambitious projects to emerge from the civil rights era. Today it is nearly forgotten.