Authors:
Reinhold Martin
Abstract: The cultural revolution proffered by the New Right relies on promises of a mythic “common good.” What remains unspoken is their contempt for anything truly common. PubDate: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:31:40 +000
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Jeff Oliver & James O'Driscoll
Abstract: Studded with ruins of 19th-century settlements, the uplands in Scotland offer an opportunity to reanimate landscapes shaped by the rural underclass and its resistance to a propertied status quo. PubDate: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:43:46 +000
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A Critics’ Roundtable
Abstract: A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscape, cities, and related subjects. PubDate: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:01:46 +000
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Photographs by Chris M. Forsyth. Text by Joshua Mabie.
Abstract: Thousands of identical white crosses mark the locations of roadway fatalities in Montana. Each cross connects someone’s death to the possibility of another’s salvation. PubDate: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:05:12 +000
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Ulf Treger; Jack Jen Gieseking Abstract: How do queer people use maps to connect with one another' How can queer mapping record the fleeting scenes of queer life, and help queer people take ownership of their data' PubDate: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:33:45 +000
Authors:
Nora Wendl
Abstract: The U.S. government’s failure to recognize the nuclear Downwinders in New Mexico is part of a broader failure — a refusal — to reckon with the legacies of the Manhattan Project. PubDate: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:00:18 +000
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Places Editors
Abstract: Proposals are being accepted for the inaugural On the Brinck Places Prize, a collaboration between Places and the School of Architecture + Planning at University of New Mexico. PubDate: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:56:52 +000
Authors:
Frances Richard
Abstract: In the 1940s, on a small island off the coast of Maine, photographer Consuelo Kanaga produced a set of portraits. Her subject: the life and likeness of fellow renegade Margaret Wise Brown. PubDate: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:20:58 +000
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Essay by Timothy A. Schuler. Photographs by Tim Hursley.
Abstract: There are many terms for the transformations that the Arkansas Delta has undergone over more than a century: settlement, reclamation, improvement. Here’s another: trauma. PubDate: Tue, 28 May 2024 15:50:33 +000
Authors:
Shannon Mattern
Abstract: Cardboard’s ubiquity rests on simple claims: I can hold that, and I can go there. But cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a global apparatus of commerce, consumption, disposal, and reuse. PubDate: Wed, 15 May 2024 16:12:44 +000
Authors:
David Serlin
Abstract: During the first decade of the New Deal, modernist architects designed schools for disabled children that proposed radical visions of civic care. PubDate: Wed, 01 May 2024 16:06:51 +000
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Ginger Nolan
Abstract: Balancing business demands and the desire to bolster African American communities, Black-owned insurance companies of the 20th century were caught in an actuarial double bind. PubDate: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:54:54 +000
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