Reading List

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Tone Chu

My Bookmarks


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    The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments

    Places Journal

    Inside the material archives of climate science, which get wilder and dirtier the deeper you go.

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    Control Earth

    Places Journal

    What is Earth’s baseline temperature? Good question. The climate scenario ‘historicalNat’ simulates a world without human intervention.

  • Online

    Three Lavas

    Places Journal

    A survey of three lava fields that have catalyzed creative interventions: in Hawaiʻi, Iceland, and Mexico City.

  • Online

    Eating Clay at the Bend of the Road

    Places Journal

    The Black diasporan tradition of geophagia, or dirt eating, has long been pathologized. Black writers and directors recover the practice as a sacred birthright.

  • Online

    The People’s Tunnels

    Places Journal

    The Chicago Pedway is a question that the city asked and left unanswered about how truly public urban space might be shaped below the streets.

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    Cloud and Field

    Places Journal

    On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age. We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars?

  • Online

    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.

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    City Ground

    Places Journal

    The making of geological strata — the very ground beneath feet — is an essential component of the mass shift of humankind to urban living.

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