About Places

Founded 26 years ago by architecture faculty at MIT and Berkeley, Places is an interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, with particular emphasis on the public realm as physical place and social ideal. Places is a 501(c)3 organization, published by the Design History Foundation and supported by a consortium of U.S. universities as well as organizational and individual sponsors.

In their editorial for Places’ first issue, published by MIT Press in July 1983, editors Donlyn Lyndon and Wiliam L. Porter articulated themes that motivate the journal to this day: to focus on “public spaces in the service of shared and egalitarian ideals of society” and to explore “the highest standards of public responsibility and design.”

In spring 2009, Places published its last print issue. The journal is now a fully web-based, open-access publication. Places online will publish peer-reviewed scholarship as well as topical commentary, observations, reviews, and visual portfolios. Like our colleagues in the Design Observer Group, we are committed to design as a catalyst of change.

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Richard C. Shepard
Samina Quraeshi
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Contributing Editors

David Adjaye
Ian Baldwin
Carol Burns
Thomas J. Campanella
Matthew Coolidge
Margaret Crawford
Julia Czerniak
Keith Eggener
Jan Otakar Fischer
David Heymann
Walter Hood
John Kaliski
Mark Klett
Mark Lamster
Nina-Marie Lister
Timothy Love
Qingyun Ma
David W. Orr
Linda Pollak
Michael Pollan
Barbara Penner
Cervin Robinson
Roger Sherman
Michael Sorkin
Charles Waldheim
Jane Wolff

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