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11.10.11: Andrew Ross
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable CityOn Places, Andrew Ross analyzes the contradictory political and economic forces that once made Phoenix the fastest-growing city in the U.S. — and today a prime casualty of the crash.
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10.17.11: Cynthia E. Smith
Design with the Other 90%: CitiesOn Places, Cynthia Smith, curator of the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES," offers an in-depth look at her research into socially responsive urban design in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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09.14.11: Aron Chang
Beyond Foreclosure: The Future of Suburban HousingOn Places, Aron Chang argues that the foreclosure crisis highlights the need to transform suburban housing — to make it responsive not to dated demographics and wishful economics but to the actual needs of a diversifying and dynamic population.
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07.25.11: Rob Walker
Implausible Futures for Unpopular PlacesOn Places Rob Walker describes the Hypothetical Development Organization, which creates fanciful renderings of imaginary developments for vacant urban sites — a new form of "architecture fiction."
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05.24.11: Michael Maltzan
No More PlayOn Places, Michael Maltzan argues that Los Angeles is on the brink of its latest transformation — and at a point where "the very word city no longer applies."
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08.04.10: Luther Thie & Kathrine Worel
Frontiers: On the Edge in Merced and MalibuOn Places, a portfolio of photographs by Luther Thie and Kathrine Worel, documenting houses and homes on the frontiers of the contemporary economic and environmental crises.
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05.24.10: Jesse LeCavalier
All Those Numbers: Logistics, Territory and WalmartOn Places, architect Jesse LeCavalier dissects the ever-expanding ambitions of Walmart, which is now targeting major cities as its next big(box) market.
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11.19.09: Dk Osseo-Asare, Quilian Riano
A City in Search of Good FortuneArchitects Quilian Riano and Dk Osseo-Asare report on the profitable but notorious port of Buenaventura, Colombia, as the city battles drug traffickers and paramilitary gangs, poverty and corruption; and they fear that the proposed solutions might be part of the problem.
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05.28.07: Alexandra Lange
Fantasy IslandThe fantasy of converting Governors Island to a pedestrian playground is closer to becoming a reality.
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