Tag Archives: By J. Lerner

Environment

The Tool Maker

April 4, 2017 LAM Staff 2 Comments

Jack Dangermond built a tech colossus, and a fortune, from GIS. Now he’s sharing it all to save the world.

By Jonathan Lerner

*Photo by Spencer Lowell/Trunk Archive.*

Jack Dangermond wears oversized tortoise-shell glasses. Continue reading The Tool Maker →

Parks

Surge Time

August 4, 2016 LAM Staff 1 Comment

When everyone wants a piece of the same postcard.

Mather Point, a limestone fin that juts into Grand Canyon National Park, is the first overlook from which many, possibly most, visitors to the storied national park get a glimpse into that astonishing other world. Continue reading Surge Time →

General

Growing Pains

January 7, 2015 LAM Staff Leave a comment

The Museum of Modern Art wonders whether unsanctioned, light-footprint design gestures can humanize the world’s megacities.

By Jonathan Lerner

BEDIT_Back-MoMa_hongkong4 — A megacity twofer: In Hong Kong, an informal oyster-farming settlement is next to a “new town” that has a reputation for family tragedies, attributed to its remote location, few jobs, and high density.

In exploding cities around the world, ever-increasing populations of the poor find themselves occupying dense makeshift settlements, or dangerously subdivided apartments, or massive, isolating housing estates. Continue reading Growing Pains →

Education, Preservation

Unearthed and Unforgotten

September 9, 2014 LAM Staff 2 Comments

A 19th-century freedman’s settlement comes alive again in Brooklyn.

By Jonathan Lerner

Now viewed across the lawn and meadow, the houses evoke the settlement's rural character. — Now viewed across the lawn and meadow, the houses evoke the settlement’s rural character.

Nearly 50 years ago, a cluster of old houses, set slightly askew, was “discovered” in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Continue reading Unearthed and Unforgotten →