My Bookmarks
Ugly America
Places Journal
In its depiction of the midcentury commercial landscape, Life embodied our contradictory efforts to reconcile civic ideals and free-market economics.
The Domestication of the Garage
Places Journal
J.B. Jackson’s 1976 essay on the evolution of the American garage displays his rare ability to combine deep erudition with eloquent and plainspoken analysis.
Tree Thinking
Places Journal
Trees have served as models of intellectual inquiry and as sites of religious and civic deliberation. Now they are inspiring deeper forms of ecological investigation.
Zombies and Ghosts
Places Journal
In 21st-century finance capitalism, residential buildings are valued less as homes than as investments. The unsettling results are underpopulated cities and bleak unfinished suburbs.
