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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.
The Road to Exurbia
Places Journal
The pleasures of growing up in a Massachusetts hill town give way to regrets about the large ecological footprint of exurban life.
The Eastward-Moving House
Places Journal
A contemporary critic extends the imaginative history of the American house begun in J.B. Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House.”
The Westward-Moving House
Places Journal
Now online, a classic essay on the American homestead.
The Lay of the Land
Places Journal
Place and land and nature: how we tie these things together is critical to our sense of self-purpose and our fit in the world.
"Housing Is Everybody's Problem"
Places Journal
Largely forgotten today, Morris Milgram was a pioneer of multiracial suburban housing. His legacy in the fight for fair housing in America deserves to be remembered.
The Case for Truly Public Housing
Places Journal
A municipal authority in Massachusetts has deftly negotiated the privatization and deregulation of the market. But its hard-won success underscores the need for a new narrative of public housing in America.
Within and Without Architecture
Places Journal
The imaginative possibilities of miniature things lie not in their being shrunken versions of a larger thing. The world of the miniature opens to reveal a secret life.
Tradition for Sale
Places Journal
A neo-Gothic superblock at Yale exemplifies a troubling trend. All too often universities abdicate leadership in promoting architectural innovation as they pander to plutocratic donors.
Campus Design as Critical Practice
Places Journal
How to turn a lackluster midwestern campus into an international cultural destination.