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Designing Indian Country
Places Journal
Suppose Native America is not over, that there is no “after colonialism.” How do we create public spaces that enable true contact between cultures?
Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Places Journal
A Cooper-Hewitt curator surveys socially responsive urban design in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The Emergence of Container Urbanism
Places Journal
The repurposed shipping container, now a fixture of urban architecture, is part of a movement that can be traced back to Archigram and the Metabolists in the 1960s.
Venture Design
Places Journal
A profile of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, a laboratory for the creative retrofitting of postwar suburbia.
Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and Community
Places Journal
An urban geographer compares the radically different New York worlds of Warhol’s Factory and Jacobs’s Greenwich Village — and comes to some provocative conclusions.
Preparing Ground
Places Journal
Two visionary landscape architects discuss their work on contested environments from the Mississippi to Mumbai.
The Price of Regeneration
Places Journal
Contemporary “placemaking” policies have brought about the hyper-gentrification of large swathes of London and the loss of longstanding communities. But now there are signs of real resistance.
The Island Seen and Felt
Places Journal
Australia is a place with more land than people, more geography than architecture. But it is not and never has been empty. Few landscapes have been so deeply known.
Beyond Zuccotti Park: Making the Public
Places Journal
In the wake of Occupy Wall Street, we need to focus on the making of the public as an engaged citizenry.