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Water
05.10.12: Zhang Xiao & Aaron Rothman
The Last Days of KaixianOn Places, a slideshow by Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao, documenting the last town to be submerged by the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam; with an introduction by Aaron Rothman.
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03.21.12: Hadley Arnold & Peter Arnold
Drylands: Water and the WestOn Places, an essay and slideshow by Peter Arnold and Hadley Arnold of the Arid Lands Institute, on what they call "the largest and least understood environmental challenge of the 21st century."
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01.23.12: Austin Troy
Thirsty CityOn Places, Austin Troy assesses the massive infrastructure required to bring water to the arid American West — and the huge amount of energy that makes it possible to take a shower in Los Angeles.
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10.26.11: Center for Creative Photography & Mark Klett
Water in the WestOn Places, a slideshow from the collaborative photography project Water in the West, with an introduction by Mark Klett.
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08.18.11: Ashleigh Pedersen
Small and Heavy WorldOn Places, a short story by Ashleigh Pedersen set in a fantastical landscape among the trees during a flood in the Deep South.
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08.15.11: Anthony Doerr
Village 113On Places, a short story by Anthony Doerr set in a Chinese village soon to be drowned by the Three Gorges Dam.
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06.27.11: Deborah Gans
Below the Sill Plate: New Orleans East Struggles to RecoverOn Places, architect Deborah Gans describes a multi-year effort to rebuild neighborhoods in post-Katrina New Orleans — and the limited results to date.
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04.20.11: Radek Skrivanek
The Dying SeaOn Places, a portfolio of photographs by Radek Skrivanek, documenting the death of the Aral Sea.
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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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03.31.11: Anuradha Mathur
Visualizing Landscapes: In the Terrain of WaterOn Places, an exhibition on the visualization of water and landscape, from the Beaux Arts to the digital, curated by Anuradha Mathur.
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03.24.11: Alejandro Cartagena & Aaron Rothman
Lost RiversOn Places, a portfolio of images by Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena, documenting the ecological effects of rapid urbanization.
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03.23.11: Anne Pierson Wiese
Sutliff BridgeOn Places, a poem by Anne Pierson Wiese, Sutliff Bridge, inspired by the dramatic destruction of an historic Iowa bridge in the floods of 2008.
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03.21.11: Kristi Dykema Cheramie
The Scale of Nature: Modeling the Mississippi RiverOn Places, Kristi Dykema Cheramie explores the ruins of the abandoned Mississippi River Basin Model and ponders the decades-long battle to control the great river.
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03.10.11: Tim Culvahouse
Black in Back: Mardi Gras and the Racial Geography of New OrleansOn Places, Tim Culvahouse charts the complex racial geography of New Orleans (and looks in on the Rex and Zulu Mardi Gras parades).
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02.08.11: Places Editors
Penn Hosts Symposium on Water and DesignThe University of Pennsylvania School of Design will host an international symposium, “In the Terrain of Water," on April 1 – 2, 2011.
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01.24.11: Karen Piper
Dreams, Dust and Birds: The Trashing of Owens LakeOn Places, Karen Piper narrates the latest chapter in one California's longest water wars: Los Angeles' efforts to undo the environmental damage done to Owens Lake, decades after its waters were diverted to supply the thirsty metropolis.
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11.29.10: David Heymann
A Cloud on a LakeOn Places, architect David Heymann explores the charged relationship between buildings and landscapes in works as diverse as Diller Scofidio + Renfro's notorious Blur Building and Hiroshi Sugimoto's minimalist seascapes.
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11.18.10: Barbara Penner
Flush with Inequality: Sanitation in South AfricaOn Places, just in time for World Toilet Day 2010, Barbara Penner explores the complex political, social and environmental meanings of sanitation in post-apartheid South Africa.
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09.09.10: Elizabeth Mossop and Jeffrey Carney
In the Mississippi Delta: Building with WaterOn Places, Elizabeth Mossop and Jeffrey Carney report on the work of the Coastal Sustainability Studio at Louisiana State University, which is proposing long-range solutions to the environmental and social challenges of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
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06.29.10: Nicholas Pevzner and Sanjukta Sen
Preparing Ground: An Interview with Anuradha Mathur + Dilip da CunhaOn Places, an interview with landscape architects Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, focusing on projects from the Mississippi to Mumbai.
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05.20.10: Center for Urban Pedagogy
The Water UndergroundOn Places, watch The Water Underground, a video from the Center for Urban Pedagogy that tracks the complex — and contested — systems of water supply, treatment and waste that serve New York City.
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04.08.10: Mimi Zeiger
Two Feet High and Rising: On Optimism, Speculation and OystersOn Places, Mimi Zeiger reviews MoMA's ambitious new architecture and urban design show, Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, which explores how New York Harbor might be adapted in the face of rising sea levels.
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01.20.10: Christine Macy
Dams Across AmericaA gallery of images showing the construction of some great U.S. hydroelectric dams of the 1930s and '40s, including Hoover and Grand Coulee — something to contemplate as the current administration struggles to stimulate the economy and smarten the power grid.
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08.05.09: Nina-Marie Lister
Water/FrontEcological planner Nina-Marie Lister explores innovative ways to regenerate urban waterfronts.
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10.15.08: UrbanLab
Growing WaterGrowing Water is a bold proposal by a team of Chicago urban designers for how cities can ensure the availability of an increasingly scarce resource.
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