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A beatiful piece by Shannon Mattern that matters now more than ever:
"...breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality. What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together." (2018)
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Consortium director @inlandemperor has contributed to @PlacesJournal’s #UnfinishedAtlas, focusing on Won Kok Restaurant in L.A.’s Chinatown
"There’s something special about a place that becomes a hub for your community w/o being designed that way, coalescing through a slight rhyme of its flavors and textures with your own."
For "An Unfinished Atlas," @inlandemperor on Won Kok in LA Chinatown. placesjournal.org/article/so…
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I know it’s been non-stop baseball on my feed, but it’s all linked to my love of Los Angeles, which I write about w/ some frequency. Here’s a new long form piece in @PlacesJournal on the hidden history one of my favorite restaurants in L.A., Won Kok placesjournal.org/article/so…
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I’m really honored to publish ”Santa Maria,” a long form essay about my teen fascination with Dorothea Lange’s most iconic portrait and it’s connection to the Chumash lands where I have as born and raised. 🍓📷🎞️ placesjournal.org/article/sa…
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I’m excited to share a new, long essay with you on the hidden histories of one of my most comforting L.A. restaurants. Stay tuned…
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TIL an architect named W. Joseph Black planned an entire music-themed superblock for the top end of Central Park in the early 1970s. Thanks @elapostrophe @PlacesJournal placesjournal.org/article/bl…
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Honored to be the first author published in the @places_journal series AN UNFINISHED ATLAS, supported by a grant from the @mellonfoundation.
Thank you to every single @places_journal editor, especially the magnificent Frances Richard.
In the 1970s, architect W. Joseph Black proposed an expansive cultural complex called the Harlem Music Center: "This was no mere monument to someone’s vanity," Peter L'Official @elapostrophe writes, "but a holistic — and wildly ambitious — institution." It was never built. (1/6)
ALT A flyer for the Harlem Music Center, in bold font.
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Places Journal (@places_journal) published a series of articles, titled "Repair Manual" about how we can adapt to an overburdened world where maintenance of existing structures and landscapes will be more valuable, environmentally and socially, than the creation of new ones.
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Fascinating piece in the excellent @PlacesJournal re: lived realities of historic land ownership, occupancy & use in Scotland. @DavidsonMagnus
"Rural heritage is more than grand houses and manicured surrounds. It is a story of resistance & adaptation to a propertied status quo."
New Paper! #landscape Legacies of the Landless by our own Jeff Oliver and @JODarchaeology in @PlacesJournal A visual essay on inhabitation and resilience in historic #Aberdeenshire #archaeology #drones #heritage #crofting placesjournal.org/article/la…
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New Paper! #landscape Legacies of the Landless by our own Jeff Oliver and @JODarchaeology in @PlacesJournal A visual essay on inhabitation and resilience in historic #Aberdeenshire #archaeology #drones #heritage #crofting placesjournal.org/article/la…
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Degrowth, Energy Sobriety, Low-Tech: Towards an Architecture of Conviviality
Amazing reading list convened by @mireio with many resources at @PlacesJournal
Did someone say #degrowth ?
👇🏽👌🏽✨
#decrescita
placesjournal.org/reading-li… – at Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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Sanity is this reading list on
degrowth by my friend & architecture colleague Mireille Roddier. Its intro is lucid and powerful — it could serve as a great intro for students to the topic.
Degrowth. Post-growth. Beyond growth.
The readings assembled here can transform how we imagine the future of our world, from the scale of the cosmos to human hands. The most renewable resource of all? "Optimism," writes Mireille Roddier.
A Reading List:placesjournal.org/reading-li…
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For @PlacesJournal I reviewed Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing (@Rizzoli_Books).
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For a similarly excellent diagnosis of the water crisis in Amman, there’s @ursulind in @PlacesJournal
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I spent 3yrs in convo w my comrade, German #queer activist Ulf Treger, chatting @ #queermapping, #queerdata, #queerdesign. I couldn't have imagined this *beautiful* pub of our dialogue. Ty, @PlacesJournal, for yr support & vision. #GIS #queerGIS #lgbt #gay #lesbian #trans #lgbtq
How can queer mapping record the fleeting scenes of queer life? What can and cannot be mapped, and maybe should not be recorded?
In conversation: Jack Jen Gieseking & Ulf Treger on queer data, and archiving queer experiences, activism & memories.placesjournal.org/article/qu…
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Finally got around to reading this; it's lovely. I've spent a lot of days rambling around this strange territory, and I recommend doing the same, or at the very least rambling through this essay.
The Arkansas Delta has much to say about ecological collapse, economic abandonment, human persistence & the paradoxes of a century of American “progress."
Read our critic-in-residence Timothy Schuler on "The Sunk Country," with photographs by Tim Hursley. placesjournal.org/article/th…
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People mention the struggles of the Mississippi Delta but no one talks about the economically disadvantaged Arkansas Delta much. Maybe it’s finally getting some attention? It’s sad and depressing driving through parts of there.
The Arkansas Delta has much to say about ecological collapse, economic abandonment, human persistence & the paradoxes of a century of American “progress."
Read our critic-in-residence Timothy Schuler on "The Sunk Country," with photographs by Tim Hursley. placesjournal.org/article/th…
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As a frequent traveler for photography through the Arkansas Delta, this piece really resonated with me. Great photos by Tim Hursley in here as well, check it out
The Arkansas Delta has much to say about ecological collapse, economic abandonment, human persistence & the paradoxes of a century of American “progress."
Read our critic-in-residence Timothy Schuler on "The Sunk Country," with photographs by Tim Hursley. placesjournal.org/article/th…
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Our essay of the week traces the rise of the cardboard box, demonstrating how this embodiment of global trade intersects with homelessness and environmental degradation.
By Shannon Mattern in @PlacesJournal
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