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Places Journal
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Places is a leading journal of contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism. We harness the moral and investigative power of public scholarship to promote equitable cities and sustainable landscapes.
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Page structure

H1 heading
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Climate Boomtowns and Receiver Cities
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Heading structure

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H1 Climate Boomtowns and Receiver Cities
H2 Reading Lists
H2 Tapia, Tabbi, Tabique, Tabby
H2 Little Big Worlds
H2 Julia Child’s Kitchens
H2 Justice Supply
H2 Galleries
H2 Series
H3 Sign In
H3 Create Account
H3 The Gray Scale
H3 The Fight for San Francisco
H3 The Ice
H3 Emergent Shorelands of the Great Lakes
H3 800 Miles: Photographing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
H3 Poems as Maps
H3 Climate Urbanism
H3 Places News
H4 Follow
H4 Follow Duplicate text
H4 Academic Partners
H4 Print Archive
H4 Places Welcomes Three New Academic Partners
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H4 Gabrielle Bruney Chosen for “Writing the City” 2024
H4 Places Awarded Capacity-Building Grant from Arcadia
H4 Follow Duplicate text
H4 Submit to Places
H4 Support Places
H4 Print Archive Duplicate text
H4 Submit to Places Duplicate text
H5 Places Journal Uses Cookies
H6 Places Journal
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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There are too many external links (50) on this page.
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/newsletter/New window Newsletter
A-TITLE Places Newsletter Signup
/calls-for-articlesCalls for Articles
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The file size of the HTML document is fine (93 kB).

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Places Journal
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