The balanced frame around the theme features, a mix of news of events, book reviews and practice listings makes connections with a wider world, in a cool hands-off way, with no messy products or users to deal with. It s the journal of a network making links and connections, but maybe never close enough to get the blame when things don t turn out right. There are contributions from engineers and garden historians, archaeologists and planners, there are survey forms you can photocopy and use and views and comments on current cases and appeals. Books are reviewed for their practical application, academic texts scorned. This may now be the journal of The Institute of Historic Building Conservation but there are people in there, fixing the details and stopping the rot.
Places is one from the heart.
Its layout a mix of overlapping typefaces and photographs with texts that flow through illustrations, large set captions that read like poems, it muses on, reflects and engages with the places it reports. The editorial column is always called Caring About Places .