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Some campuses now witnessing protest against the war in Gaza are members of the Places academic network. We are an independent nonprofit journal funded in part by these institutions. Their students, faculty, and staff are among our readers, authors, and board members. We are joined in shared commitment to study of the built environment.
We abhor the police violence being used against people who are trying to end a tragic and genocidal war.
Students have the right to dissent, and the right to use campus buildings and spaces for peaceful protest, even when disruptive. A mission of public scholarship, like ours, loses meaning if it does not affirm such public acts of conscience.