Places

In Haiti, displacement camps full of people left without homes after the devastating January earthquake are becoming more and more permanent. Deborah Gans argues that these sites should be more carefully planned to foster functioning places.

September 24, 2010 - Places

Through a comparison of large buildings like the Burj Dubai and large roadside attractions like the world's "largest pecan", Keith Eggener explores the drive towards big-ness.

September 14, 2010 - Places

In the wake of the BP oil spill, geographer Richard Campanella of Tulane University takes a look at the geography of New Orleans and the Gulf region, and suggests that the disaster will fuel a renewed discussion of the area's uniqueness.

September 12, 2010 - Places

Kids from Walt Whitman Middle School in Brooklyn wanted to know why there were so many empty lots around their school. The Center for Urban Pedagogy worked with the kids to understand why, and created a video document from what they found.

September 1, 2010 - Places

The Bonneville Salt Flats in Western Utah are where drivers and engineers attempt to break the land speed record -- an activity that has transformed this otherwise unused space into one of the more important sites of modern human history.

August 20, 2010 - Places

Detroit is a city of borders: international borders, borders between cities and not-cities, and borders between the success of the past and the uncertain future, writes Jerry Herron in this essay for Places.

July 14, 2010 - Places

Architects Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha say that activism drives their work: "Rather than waiting for a commissioned project, we ask the first question, frame the issue and propose possibilities," say the two in an interview with PLACES.

July 4, 2010 - Places

The new Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York is opening bit by bit. Places talks with Matthew Urbanski, one of the principal designers behind the park about its design and impact.

June 22, 2010 - Places

In the first of a two-part series on augmented reality, Mitchell Schwarzer discusses how this new form of information affects our sense of place.

June 15, 2010 - Places

Urban water systems are immense -- and little-understood. Places presents this video from the Center for Urban Pedagogy looking down below the streets to illuminate the mystery city water delivery.

May 22, 2010 - Places

This post from Places looks at how former New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay's embrace of the film industry helped transform the city.

May 6, 2010 - Places

This piece from Places takes a look at a new bus rapid transit system that is growing in the Indian city of Ahmedabad.

April 23, 2010 - Places

The environmental and infrastructural conditions that brought about the flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 remain today, and have the potential to cause similar devastation, according to this piece.

March 31, 2010 - Places

Architectural historian Keith Eggener draws a fascinating connection between the film Death Wish and architecture -- and also links the movie's main character with Robert Moses.

February 17, 2010 - Places

Architect and urban designer Hector Fernando Burga looks at Haiti through the lens of a Haitian enclave in Miami and wonders what role designers can play in the devastated country's revival.

February 2, 2010 - Places

This essay from Places looks at today's economic depression, the nation's crumbling infrastructure, and various efforts to rethink they way America looks at fixing its cities.

January 22, 2010 - Places

This essay from Places looks at the history of development in Las Vegas and how the city has rapidly changed the Mojave Desert.

December 9, 2009 - Places

This essay from Places offers five simple ways to make the world a better place -- and they're all related to the built environment.

November 23, 2009 - Places

Cities across the globe are rediscovering their waterfronts. As this piece from Places discusses, revitalization of these former industrial areas includes more than just green space.

November 8, 2009 - Places