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Idil Onen presenting at aaa conference in New Orleans on debris of memory.
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Can a Beach Really Be Evil? Ask the Sun-Seekers in Good Sahel. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...
Can a Beach Really Be Evil? Ask the Sun-Seekers in Good Sahel.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The Politics Behind the Redesign of New York’s Benches www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/n...
The Politics Behind the Redesign of New York’s Benches
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October 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Biennale Spazio Pubblico » La Stanza dei Libri
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October 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Setha Low on Public Spaces - Social Science Space
Having been raised in Los Angeles, a place with vast swathes of single-family homes connected by freeways, arriving in Costa Rica was […]
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October 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Opinion | Why must we all suffer? Bring back benches.
America is increasingly standing room only.
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September 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Born on the Beach www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines
Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...
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August 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Why concrete might be doing more harm than good in the fight against flood risks | CNN
Much of the modern world is built on the idea that we can control water. But concrete infrastructure is failing amid unprecedented levels of rain. With ‘sponge cities,’ landscape architect Kongjian Yu...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Why Are Quiet Spaces Disappearing?
And how do we get them back?
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July 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Death of a Tree | Benjamin Swett
Some years ago I published a book called New York City of Trees. On facing pages of photographs and text, it presented portraits of fifty-five trees in
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July 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Innovative parks aren't just bold urban design—they lower the temperature in cities
Parks like the High Line have a dramatic effect on the temperature of the city around them.
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July 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The Perils of ‘Design Thinking’
A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted.
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June 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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‘What Art Does’ Review: Brian Eno’s Mind at Play
The influential musician and producer ponders the nature of human creativity.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests
The Agriculture Department said it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.
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June 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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For sale by the GOP: Our public land — and our shared history
Trump's "big beautiful bill" puts millions of acres in the West at risk
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June 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Speaking in Milan at urbanist conference. What a treat!
June 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Did animals provide the blueprints for human culture? | Aeon Essays
Prehistoric humans didn’t create art and architecture out of nothing. They took inspiration from the nonhuman world
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June 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Opinion | The Dying Liberal University
In his new book, David Rieff mourns a lost ideal.
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June 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Lincoln Center Will Finally Face Its Neighbors
As it aims to be more welcoming, the institution will remove a forbidding wall to open up Damrosch Park.
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June 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The Most Terrifying Company in America Is Probably One You’ve Never Heard Of
Palantir’s rise reflects the direction liberal democracies are taking: toward automated judgment and algorithmic inference—and toward control, streamlined, scalable, surgical.
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May 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Who can use Florida’s beaches? Depends on where you are
The fight over beach access is unlikely to end in Florida, where growing populations and eroding beaches create arguments over invisible lines in the sand.
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May 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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What a history of underground parking reveals about postwar policy | Aeon Essays
The explosion of automobiles shaped cities and lives. But an enduring problem remains: where to put them when they’re parked
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May 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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What’s Driving Trump’s Attack on Museums
An ousted museum director from Poland explains why museums are on the “front lines” when populists take power.
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May 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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String Theory | Susan Tallman
Two exhibitions focused on weaving go beyond the functional, the folkloric, and the feminine, tracking fiber’s escape from the connotations of the grid.
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April 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/a...
Penn Station’s Not-So-Secret Other Life: The People’s Dance Studio
Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.
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April 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM