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The Architecture of Sports
Places Journal
From signature golf courses to street basketball courts: fields of play are laboratories of spatial invention.
The (Still) Dreary Deadlock of Public Housing
Places Journal
Decades ago Catherine Bauer argued passionately that governments must ensure that all citizens are well housed — a call to action more vital than ever as our shelter crisis deepens.
The Man Who Wrote Too Well
Places Journal
Reyner Banham was not only an extraordinary scholar but also a prodigiously productive journalist. Consider his remarkable analysis of a legendary crash-test dummy.
The Flexible Heart of the Home
Places Journal
Issues of gender, disability, and user-centeredness have long been relegated to the margins of design history. A new look at postwar home economics complicates the prevailing narratives.
The Modern Urbanism of Cook's Camden
Places Journal
The council housing designed 50 years ago for a progressive London borough remains a potent symbol of the achievements of postwar social democracy.
Socialism and Nationalism on the Danube
Places Journal
Vienna and Budapest can be viewed as battlefields in a European crisis of identity that threatens the continent’s political unity and raises fundamental questions about the future of Europe.
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.