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Places, A Forum of Environmental Design

Founded 26 years ago by architecture faculty at MIT and Berkeley, Places is an interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, with particular emphasis on the public realm as physical place and social ideal. Places is a 501(c)3 organization, published by the Design History Foundation and supported by a consortium of U.S. universities as well as organizational and individual sponsors.

In their editorial for Places' first issue, published by MIT Press in July 1983, editors Donlyn Lyndon and Wiliam L. Porter articulated themes that motivate the journal to this day: to focus on "public spaces in the service of shared and egalitarian ideals of society" and to explore "the highest standards of public responsibility and design."

In spring 2009, Places published its last print issue. The journal is now a fully web-based, open-access publication. Places online will publish peer-reviewed scholarship as well as topical commentary, observations, reviews, and visual portfolios. Like our colleagues in the Design Observer Group, we are committed to design as a catalyst of change.


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Places: Forum for Design of the Public Realm
390 Wurster Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

(415) 497-6179 (tel)
editors@placesjournal.org

http://places.designobserver.com/

 



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