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09.09.10: By Elizabeth Mossop and Jeffrey Carney

In the Mississippi Delta: Building with Water
On 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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08.18.10: Martin Hogue

Land, Speed and Bonneville
On Places — coinciding with Speed Week at Bonneville — a gallery created by architect Martin Hogue documents decades of land speed racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats of western Utah.
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06.29.10: Nicholas Pevzner and Sanjukta Sen

Preparing Ground: An Interview with Anuradha Mathur + Dilip da Cunha
On Places, an interview with landscape architects Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, focusing on projects from the Mississippi to Mumbai.
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06.14.10: Brian Davis, Julienne Schaer

Building Brooklyn Bridge Park: An Interview with Matthew Urbanski
On Places, landscape designer Brian Davis interviews Matthew Urbanski, principal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, about Brooklyn Bridge Park, a major new public park in New York City.
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04.13.10: Tim Love

Paper Architecture, Emerging Urbanism
On Places, Tim Love explores the latest generation of paper architecture being created by under-employed designers — and argues that the current recession offers a real chance to align progressive theory with urban practice.
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03.15.10: Frank Gohlke

Grain Elevators
On Places, a slideshow of photographs from Frank Gohlke's series on grain elevators in the American Midwest and Great Plains.
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03.05.10: Ken McCown

Designed Landscapes
A portfolio of photographs of designed structures and landscapes — from La Jolla to Marfa, from Hadrian's Villa to Storm King — by landscape architecture professor Ken McCown.
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03.01.10: Brian Rosa

Frank Gohlke: Thoughts on Landscape
On Places, Brian Rosa reviews Frank Gohlke's Thoughts on Landscape, a volume of collected writings which shows that this leading American photographer is as eloquent with words as with images.
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03.01.10: Shana Lopes

New (and Old) Topographics
On Places, New (and Old) Topographics — selected photographs from the Center for Creative Photography that comprise a complementary exhibition to the current restaging of the groundbreaking 1975 show New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
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02.03.10: Aaron Rothman

This Place is a Message
On Places, a portfolio of recent photographs of natural and built landscapes by Arizona-based artist and photographer Aaron Rothman.
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01.20.10: Christine Macy

Dams Across America
A 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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10.30.09: Donlyn Lyndon

Lawrence Halprin, 1916 – 2009
Lawrence Halprin, one of the leading landscape architects of the postwar era, remembered by his longtime friend and colleague Donlyn Lyndon.
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10.18.09: Ken McCown

Found Landscapes
A portfolio of photographs, with images ranging from the American West to Vatican City, by landscape architect Ken McCown.
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09.18.09: Ian Baldwin

The Past Is Promenade
Architect Ian Baldwin contemplates the High Line and sees in New York's newest park a rare and valuable form of urban place: a slow corridor.
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09.08.09: Mark Klett

Placing Memory
Photographer Mark Klett reviews Placing Memory, which juxtaposes contemporary color photos of abandoned Japanese-American internment camps, by photographer Todd Stewart, with government-commissioned period images, to haunting effect.
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09.04.09: Andrew Blum

Metaphor Remediation: A New Ecology for the City
Cities are the new frontiers green living, and Andrew Blum argues that we need to revise the old metaphors: will Half Dome give way to the high-rise as the new emblem of environmentalism?
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08.05.09: Nina-Marie Lister

Water/Front
Ecological planner Nina-Marie Lister explores innovative ways to regenerate urban waterfronts.
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05.19.09: Curtis Hamilton, Cervin Robinson

Showing Us the Way It Was

12.15.08: Kathryn Merlino

Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Center - Seattle, WA

12.15.08: Hector Burga

RIVER+CITY+LIFE: A Guide to Renewing Toronto's Lower Don Lands

12.15.08: Willow Amam

The Landscape Totems: Speculations on Growth and Decay

12.15.08: Leslie Ryan

Greenhouse Britain: Creating a Context

12.15.08: Elma Tomlinson

America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire

12.15.08: Frederick Steiner

Reading Landscapes

10.15.08: Ray Green

Place Character and Climate Change along Australia's Great Ocean Road

10.15.08: Mary Carol Hunter

Managing Sense of Place in Transition: Coping with Climate Change

10.15.08: Virginia Matzek, Peter Kareiva

Casualties of Climate Change: Identity and Livelihood in California's Central Valley

10.15.08: William Porter

Places' 25th Anniversary: An Introduction

04.15.07: Robert Sommer

Disappearing Act: Front-Yard Bricolage along the Pacific Coast

01.15.05: Daniel S. Friedman

Campus Design as Critical Practice
How to turn a lackluster midwestern campus into an international cultural destination.
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07.01.00: Elizabeth Felicella

Portfolio: Uneasy Spaces
New York City photographer Elizabeth Felicella focuses on what she calls "landscape of security."
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07.15.95: Thomas J. Campanella

Splendid China
A tour of Splendid China, the "world's largest miniature scenic spot.
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07.15.83: Kathy Halbreich, William Porter and Lois Craig

An Interview with James Turrell
A 1983 interview with James Turrell, then beginning his transformation of the Roden Crater. The monumental work is scheduled to open to the public in 2012.
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