The Best of Places Journal
The most popular Places Journal articles, as voted by our community.
Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Design research and journalism in the public interest. Subscribe for free: http://placesjournal.org/newsletter
Places Journal on Architecture
Apocalypse-Proof
A windowless telecommunications hub, 33 Thomas Street in New York City embodies an architecture of surveillance and paranoia. That has made it an ideal set for conspiracy thrillers.
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Why A Marsh
A writer and a scientist trace the deep history of a marsh on the Hudson River, from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age and from the industrial era to our problematic present.
Untimely Futures
In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.
A Nation of Walls
An artist-activist catalogues the physical remnants and political legacies of 'segregation walls,' unassuming bits of racist infrastructure that hide in plain sight in American neighborhoods.
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