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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.
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.
Disabling Modernism
Places Journal
During the first decade of the New Deal, modernist architects designed schools for disabled children that proposed radical visions of civic care.
Tending Building
Places Journal
To tend a building requires us to direct our attention away from cultural expectations of the “new,” and to design in consonance with inevitable change.