Urban Landscape Ecology
Ecology and Design: Parallel Genealogies
Places Journal
The word “ecology” has been co-opted so widely that it has lost real meaning, yet it remains a powerful lens for designers working with complex adaptive systems.
Head of the Dragon: The Rise of New Shanghai
Places Journal
The fast-forward reinvention of Shanghai, a dynamic and contradictory city that has yet to live up to its historic promise — to sort out what it means to be Chinese and modern.
The iUrbanisms of Los Angeles
Places Journal
For ambitious L.A. architects, city talk has gone deeply out of fashion. Yet insightful protagonists continue to seek a better future for L.A. architecture vis-à-vis L.A. urbanism.
A Short History of American Urban Exceptionalism
Places Journal
American urban development has long pursued its own distinctive course — an urbanism without fixed limits, with endlessly extendable boundaries.
The Chinese Dream
Places Journal
In booming Guangzhou, rural migrant workers find their first footing in one of the city’s many urban villages. But what happens when the land becomes more valuable than the village?