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01.24.13: Reinhold Martin
Public and Common(s)On Places, Reinhold Martin explores the philosophical understandings of the terms public and commons, from the 20th-century treatises of Arendt and Habermas to recent books by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.
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01.21.13: Nancy Levinson
After the Storm: Climate Change and Public WorksOn Places, Nancy Levinson argues that the accelerating crisis of climate change suggests a newly intensified political agenda for design activism.
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11.08.12: Josh Wallaert
State of the CommonsOn Places, Josh Wallaert reviews the Wiki Loves Monuments USA photography contest — and highlights the increasing privatization of our infrastructure of public information.
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09.24.12: Jeffrey Hou
Beyond Zuccotti Park: Making the PublicOn Places, in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, Jeffrey Hou argues that we need to focus not only on ensuring the right to public space but also on the "making of the public as an engaged citizenry."
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07.09.12: Rudabeh Pakravan
Territory Jam: TehranOn Places, Rudabeh Pakravan analyzes the rise of illegal satellite TV in Tehran, which allows residents to watch state-banned shows — and which has made the private home "the true public realm" in the Iranian capital.
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06.25.12: Reinhold Martin, Raphael Sperry, Amit C. Price Patel, Liz Ogbu & Tom Angotti
The Housing QuestionOn Places, a debate inspired by the MoMA exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, organized by the Buell Center and Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility.
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05.22.12: Shannon Mattern
Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban MarginsOn Places, Shannon Mattern surveys the rise of the little library, of the myriad pop-up, guerrilla and ad-hoc libraries that build on the DIY energy and political edge of tactical urbanism.
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02.23.12: David Schalliol
A Method of LivingOn Places, photos by David Schalliol show the dramatic transformation of public housing in Chicago — the demolition of the city's infamous projects and their replacement with mixed-income, new-urbanist-style communities.
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02.20.12: Lawrence Vale
Housing Chicago: Cabrini-Green to Parkside of Old TownOn Places, Lawrence Vale recounts the troubled saga of Chicago's now-demolished Cabrini-Green, and the mixed-income new-urbanist style communities that are replacing the old public housing.
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02.14.12: Jonathan Massey
Housing and the 99 PercentOn Places, Jonathan Massey traces a history of American home ownership, from the boosterism of the 1920s to postwar suburbia to the housing bubble to current foreclosure crisis.
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01.30.12: Deborah Gans
Hospitality Begins at HomeOn Places, Deborah Gans visits a digital installation by Israeli artist Maya Zack and the In-House Festival in Jerusalem, and is inspired to explore the spatio-political dimensions of homeland.
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12.08.11: Reinhold Martin
Occupy: The Day AfterOn Places, Reinhold Martin explores how Occupy Wall Street might challenge the structural inequities of finance capitalism, and how architects and urbanists can contribute to the next phase of the movement
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11.07.11: Reinhold Martin
Occupy: What Architecture Can DoOn Places, Reinhold Martin explores the role of architecture in the Occupy Wall Street movement — and in the larger challenges of constructing a better and more equitable society.
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11.01.11: Phillip Lopate
Above Grade: On the High LineOn Places, writer Phillip Lopate traces the pre-history of the High Line, and ponders whether New York City's elevated park will be a victim of its own success.
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04.11.11: Robert Dawson & Josh Wallaert
Public Library: An American CommonsOn Places, photographer Robert Dawson documents public libraries across the United States, emphasizing their vital — and now threatened — role as an American commons.
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02.07.11: Brian Davis
The New Public Landscapes of Governors Island: An Interview with Adriaan GeuzeOn Places, Brian Davis interviews landscape architect Adriaan Geuze of West 8 about his design for a major new public park on Governors Island in New York Harbor.
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04.05.10: Denise Hoffman Brandt
The View to America Street from Mrs. Fair’s Front Door, July 21, 2009On Places, landscape architect Denise Hoffman Brandt offers a vivid portrait of the ongoing post-Katrina struggles of one neighborhood, and one household, in New Orleans.
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02.04.10: Timothy Mennel
Working for the PeopleCompleting his doctorate in geography, Timothy Mennel produced not a typical dissertation but Everything Must Go: A Novel of Robert Moses's New York. On Places, read an excerpt, in which Moses and Frank Lloyd Wright take a drive through Harlem and the Bronx.
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01.18.10: Nancy Levinson
The Public WorksWhy isn't the Great Recession inspiring a new New Deal? The essential dilemma, argues Places editor Nancy Levinson, is that we no longer believe in public sector solutions — or even in the public itself.
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01.10.10: Linda Samuels
Working Public ArchitectureCan we envision a contemporary counterpart to the New Deal of the 1930s? Architect Linda Samuels reports on WPA 2.0, the ambitious competition and symposium created by cityLab at UCLA.
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09.07.09: Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore
Community: The American Way of LivingThink American suburbia is a sprawl of homogeneous privatopias? The U.S. curators of the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale argue that you haven't been paying attention.
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05.19.09: Linda Samuels
Infrastructural OptimismLearning from New Orleans, or why we really need a new New Deal.
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04.01.89: Catherine Brown, William Morrish
Western Civic Art: Works in ProgressIn 1989 Phoenix, Arizona, commissioned one of the first public art master plans. The city now has one of the strongest public art programs in the country.
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