49: Publics, F/W 2021. Size 224 x 297 mm, (softcover) 160 pages.

This issue of Harvard Design Magazine and its focus on the putative “core” of landscape architecture raise timely and fundamental questions of disciplinary and professional identity for the field.

The arts and humanities contribute to the process of cultural translation by propagating and protecting what I call the “right to narrate”—the authority to tell stories, recount or recast histories, ...

Urban planning is not gender neutral. While there has long been research on how urban systems fail to respond to women’s needs, it was only a decade ago that the subject surged. Since then, countless ...

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues faced by people and governments across the globe. Does it have the potential to alter the political order of the world? My answer is yes, it does—but ...

But today, beyond the intentional construction and exchange of messages, we are all constantly “read” as data. While we offer our identities as moldable content and marketing fodder with every click; ...

Staring into the mundane depths of any modern technical system requires that one make peace with an analytic absurdity. Namely, that although one of our oldest fallacies concerning technical life is ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, Harvard Design Magazine 52 examines the state of architectural practice today. Once asserted to be the “mother art” ...

“To design is human, to implement, divine,” I have argued in loose adaptation of Alexander Pope’s well-known aphorism. By implement, I mean the carrying out of a design or plan for the city through a ...

Felicity D. Scott describes the moment when interconnections between humankind and the environment came to occupy center stage in international forums, a phenomenon Scott calls “environmentality.” The ...

The invention of the internet—the world wide web—in 1989 can be seen as a bookend of sorts to the famous Blue Marble photograph, taken by Ronald Evans from Apollo 17 in 1972: this 17-year period was ...

When I was growing up, we, like most Utah Mormon families, kept a year’s supply of food in the basement. Canned goods and preserved apples and peaches in Mason jars were periodically rotated, newer ...