Places Journal has long targeted an interdisciplinary readership — practitioners, scholars, and students in architecture, landscape, and urban design.

This week the journal has launched a new tool — Reading Lists — that promises to strengthen ties between the design disciplines and related fields such as ecology, history, geography, photography, and technology. As part of its commitment to public scholarship and innovative practice, Places is encouraging readers to share topical lists of articles, books, videos and other media in their areas of interest and expertise.

The new, interactive tool enables users to create and share a reading list, build an annotated bibliography, or bookmark Places articles for future reading. Lists can be cross-referenced by subject and shared privately or publicly.

Places is launching the new channel with a collection of Featured Lists that includes Nate Berg on the aesthetic design of freeways; Kristi Cheramie on geo-engineering by the U.S. Army Corps; Brian Davis on Latin American urbanism; Nina-Marie Lister on critical ecologies; Shannon Mattern on reading in public; Amy Murphy on women, space, and cinema; Enrique Ramirez on Texan film and culture; Frederick Steiner on environmental literature; Dorothy Tang on the new landscapes of China; and researchers at Columbia University’s Buell Center on architecture, housing, and real estate.