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Food/Agriculture
12.15.11: Kathleen Robbins & Mary Carol Miller
Cotton FarmersOn Places, photographer Kathleen Robbins and writer Mary Carol Miller focus on the cotton farms of their native Mississippi — a changing landscape and vanishing livelihood.
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11.22.11: Matthew Moore
Digital Farm CollectiveOn Places, and in time for Thanksgiving, artist and farmer Matthew Moore describes his Digital Farm Collective, a multimedia project created to spur dialogue about the future of the family farm.
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08.08.11: Urban Waite
No One Heard a Thing the Night the Chicken DiedOn Places, a short story by Urban Waite set on a family farm adjacent to a new golf course in Long Beach, California.
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04.18.11: Timothy Beatley
Blue Urbanism: The City and the OceanOn Places, planning professor Tim Beatley makes a case for blue urbanism — a new planning focus on how the design of cities affects the health of the planet's oceans.
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03.03.11: Justin Partyka
Black FenOn Places, a portfolio by photographer Justin Partyka focusing on the fenlands of eastern England and a vanishing way of life.
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12.02.10: Justin Partyka
SaskatchewanOn Places, photographer Justin Partyka explores the Saskatchewan prairie, where the agricultural life is giving way to the urban, and the landscape is an uneasy record of the change.
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11.04.10: Charles Waldheim
Notes Toward a History of Agrarian UrbanismOn Places, Charles Waldheim sketches a history of agriculture in cities, from Frank Lloyd Wright to ecological urbanism.
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11.01.10: Mason White
The Productive SurfaceOn Places, Mason White traces a line from the Cité Industrielle to Buckminster Fuller to contemporary designers exploring the potential for built surfaces to produce agriculture, renewable energy, water harvesting, and more.
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09.20.10: Deborah Gans
Haiti and the Potential of PermacultureOn Places, architect Deborah Gans explores how the temporary resettlement camps in post-earthquake Haiti might be transformed into self-sufficient agrarian villages.
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08.11.10: Justin Partyka
The East AngliansOn Places, a portfolio by photographer Justin Partyka, documenting a deep-rooted but fragile agrarian community in East Anglia.
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12.18.09: Center for Urban Pedagogy
Bodega Down BronxWhy is it easier to get fresh produce in Park Slope than in the South Bronx? Places presents Bodega Down Bronx, a video from the Center for Urban Pedagogy, that examines where and why New York's bodegas get their food.
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