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The Frontier Dozen—September 5, 2024
Annotated links to twelve stories, buildings, and projects that deserve your attention
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Stories about buildings, cities, and the landscape
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Shelter in Place
A new book offers ideas for how we can survive the “long emergency”
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Behind the Scenes: Set Pieces
On a new book Frontier designed and edited for a longtime partner
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Neighborhood Watch
Let people become mayors of the medians and presidents of the empty plots
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Renovation Project
Owen Hatherley celebrates the urban residential complexes denigrated in North America as “the projects”
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The Frontier Interview—Brock James on designing libraries
The Toronto architect discusses the imperative of flexibility, fostering community, and responding thoughtfully to existing contexts
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Trojan Horses
Will the Olympics die out before host cities learn how to harness them to achieve good things?
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Let It Grow
An argument for preserving the intimacy, resilience, and dynamism created in postwar Tokyo—and exporting it across the world
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The Frontier Interview—Dan Leers on “Widening the Lens”
On the definition of photography, sensing rather than seeing landscapes, and museums as drivers of sustainability and community
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Enough Is Enough
On sufficiency and upfront carbon, through Lloyd Alter’s new book
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Eastern Promises
In Egypt, President Sisi speed-runs nearly two centuries of urban-planning ideas in service of his political agenda
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The Frontier Interview—Common Accounts, “The Death Report”
Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler rethink architecture’s relationship to the inevitable