How to Get So Famous They Give Your House a Medal
What decides whose legacies get memorialized? Mostly richness and whiteness.
Chromophobia
Western architecture is paralyzed by a fear of color, argues David Batchelor in this extract from his classic polemic, Chromophobia. Paralyzed — and fascinated.
Far Away From Here
How do you define a place? An excerpt from Teju Cole’s new book, Known and Strange Things: on Switzerland, photography, and telling the story of a place in pictures.
Out of Reach Hawaii
As the road and rail networks on the island of Oahu expand, so a ferocious tug of war is intensifying over its untouched wilderness. Breena Kerr takes to the wheel along the most beautiful highway in America and explores whether it’s better to keep the country country.
The Resilience of Cities
From the ruin porn of Detroit to China’s ghost towns, images of failed growth haunt our imaginations. Darran Anderson argues that humanity is robust enough to survive its own poor planning.
