Taking Place

In the list-making spirit of the moment, I’ve added four web sites to our “Sites We Like” blogroll, which lives on the right side of this page (scroll down).  Below, I’ve linked below to some samples of what each of them does best:

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Places was a one of the great design magazines. Without glitz or color photos, it quietly brought together the environmental design disciplines without worrying too much about which was which.  Now it’s online, in the even more fertile and diverse setting of Design Observer. Here are some ways to think about WalMart. (It isn’t about the box.)

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The Aesthetics of Joy doesn’t pay too much attention to disciplinary boundaries, either, and it’s a powerful antidote to self-seriousness. Here, it touches down on landscape.

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Environment360 is a soberer place, “Opinion, Reporting, and Debate” from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Good, solid, reader-friendly science.  Here is the Anthropocene.

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And Bobulate is the non-designer friend that every designer should have, the one who asks seemingly naive questions that prompt you to rethink everything. Here, time, books, and movement.