With an engaged and extensive international readership, Places Journal is widely recognized as an essential and trusted resource on the future of architecture, landscape, and urbanism.
Our mission is to harness the moral and investigative power of public scholarship and public-interest journalism to promote equitable cities and resilient landscapes.
Cities that are growing and cities that are shrinking, environmental health and racial equity, climate change, resource scarcity, technological innovation — all demand that we rethink how we plan, design, construct, and maintain the built environment. These challenges also demand that serious design thinking and practice move from the margins to the center of the larger cultural discussion.
Places Journal is sustained by the generosity of an international network of academic partners, by foundations and philanthropic gifts, and by committed readers like you. Visit this page to see our community of donors.
As many periodicals move to short formats and fast cycles, we remain committed to rich and substantial writing on architecture, landscape, and urbanism.
Our deep and growing archive of more than 2,000 articles influences practice and shapes policy. We are galvanizing an informed public and equipping them with the desire and vocabulary to create social and environmental change.
To ensure the greatest impact, we are dedicated to keeping all our articles free and online, with no paywall and no advertising. We meet our readers where they are — in the classroom, at the studio, on screens of all types. Our articles are shared widely on social media and linked in major publications worldwide.
Good journalism is expensive. In-depth research, trustworthy reporting, compelling narrative, provocative critique, groundbreaking photography — all require significant resources to create and to publish. Matching reader support with institutional funding, Places is building a new model of independent journalism.
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Our series on urban inequality in American cities has resonated from public radio to legislative halls.
Our series on significant works of 19th- and 20th-century criticism or history brings significant writings to a new generation of readers.
Our series on global cities in transition, which began with articles on Yangon and Havana, has continued with major features on Belgrade, Mexico City, and Manchester.
Our collaborative series with Princeton University Press now includes Where Are the Women Architects? and A City Is Not a Computer.
For this narrative survey, scholars and practitioners share perspectives on the issues they consider most urgent, and offer ideas for specific actions and practical interventions.
Our collaboration with Columbia Journalism School gives early-career journalists the opportunity to pursue an ambitious story that might otherwise receive scant attention,
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