My Bookmarks
The Infrastructural City
Places Journal
Los Angeles depends upon vast infrastructural systems that are breathtakingly complex, yet vulnerable to disruption, even disaster.
Housing Agency
Places Journal
Opposed to top-down solutions, John F. C. Turner believed that architects and planners of housing should empower the people who will live in it. His ideas remain startlingly radical today.
I Watch Slacker to Read Austin in the Original
Places Journal
An architectural historian — and Texas native — recalls Austin in an earlier, looser and less self-conscious era.
Urbanized
Places Journal
Ranging from Mumbai to Bogotá, from DIY design to Rem Koolhaas, a new documentary on cities is as kaleidoscopic as its subject.
The Corner of Lovecraft and Ballard
Places Journal
H.P. Lovecraft and J.G. Ballard both put architecture at the heart of their fiction, and both made the humble corner into a place of nightmares.
Pandemicene Blues
Places Journal
The loss of biodiversity, the greed of the animal agriculture industry, the current assault on our public health infrastructure — all are making the next pandemic likelier than ever.