At a Neolithic site in southern Turkey, archaeologists unearthed a complex of buildings that had been buried, intentionally. How might we understand such architectural graveyards?

Common Accounts is an experimental design studio based in Madrid and Toronto, directed by Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler.

In the small towns of West Bengal and Bangladesh, every pond has stories to tell — of waterbirds and wetland plants, of family memory, colonialist history, and climate change.

Amitangshu Acharya is a human geographer focusing on postcolonial nature in South Asia, and a lecturer at the IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands.

Dutch architect John Habraken saw the potential of industrialized building to democratize decision-making, to involve inhabitants in optimizing their homes for their own needs.

An unprepossessing townhouse in the East Village was central to a series of distinctive events in New York City history.

Urban planning scholar Dasha Kuletskaya is the recipient of the latest Princeton | Places Urban Imagination Prize, the theme of which is “Solidarities.”

For years Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae has been a sanctuary for islanders unable to access conventional shelter. It also belongs to a deep Hawaiian history of resistance, inclusion, and care.

We are thrilled to announce that Places Journal has received a grant of $500,000 from the Mellon Foundation to support a new project called “An Unfinished Atlas.”

Two new books advance arguments against capitalism and its discontents — especially against the technological despotism of the internet, and the scientific despoliation of earth.