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Community Vitality in a Valley of Environmental Injustice: Urban Landscape Architecture in a Brazilian Grota

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2083″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Community Vitality in a Valley of Environmental Justice: Urban Landscape Architecture in a Brazilian Grota BY SAM VALENTINE June 11, 2020 This article was originally published on the website of Topos Magazine. You can find it here. Maybe it overshot the runway. As […]

A Green New Deal for Transportation

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1976″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] A Green New Deal for Transportation BY EMILY KENNEDY June 15, 2021 The transportation sector is the single largest producer of greenhouse gases in the United States, contributing to 28 percent of the nation’s total emissions in 2018. The majority of these emissions […]

The Case of the Incomprehensible Stadium

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2050″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] The Case of the Incomprehensible Stadium BY JULIÁN HUERTAS June 15, 2021 This graphic novel manifesto is the result of a Summer 2020 independent study with Dr. Ann Forsyth. I broadly studied and researched the complexities of land use regulation, economic development, public-private development, […]

Artwork by Kay Lee

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Artwork BY KAY LEE June 15, 2021 cuckooland (small), acrylic on canvas, 36×48 wissahickon, 2020, gouache on paper, 11_x14_ wetland, graphite on panel, 20_x16_ (1) Kay Lee is a second-year MFA student at the University of Pennsylvania. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Kay explores her identity, discomforts, […]

Floating Between Borders

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1973″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Floating Between Borders BY DIANA GUO AND MINGJIA CHEN June 15, 2021 Cultural geographer Denis Cosgrove treats the modern airport as a poetic metaphor exemplifying the modern world’s unboundedness, flexibility, and mobility. For him, the constant flow of travelers represents a modern global […]

American Warehouse: DIY Undergrounds and Urban Displacement

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1951″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”custom_link” qode_css_animation=”” link=”http://www.thomasjgamble.com/”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] American Warehouse: DIY Undergrounds and Urban Displacement BY SEAN J PATRICK CARNEY June 15, 2021 Empty Warehouses  Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, experimental venues proliferated in cavernous, disused factories and warehouses from Providence to Oakland, Chicago to New Orleans, and Baltimore to […]

The Comorbidities of Urban Space: The Price is Right

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1906″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] The Comorbidities of Urban Space: The Price is Right BY JARRODD DAVIS June 11, 2021 Over/Under Philadelphia’s Grays Ferry neighborhood and scores of similar neighborhoods – formerly overlooked, underinvested, oversaturated with poverty, and underestimated – have long been forced to react to the […]

The Desnivel Insurgentes-Mixcoac Protests: Clean Air, Citizenship, and Middle-Class Participation in a Mexico City Urban Planning Project

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2030″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] The Desnivel Insurgentes-Mixcoac Protests: Clean Air, Citizenship, and Middle-Class Participation in a Mexico City Urban Planning Project BY ARON LESSER June 20, 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]In June of 2015, a group of retired women tied themselves to their neighborhoods’ largest trees. They were protesting the […]

Poisoned Prisons

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2036″ img_size=”large” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Poisoned Prisons BY DIANA DROGARIS June 20, 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Since its heyday of the early-to-mid 20th century, Appalachia’s coal economy has all but evaporated. A combination of advances in coal extraction technologies, the fall of natural gas prices, and imperfect but efficiaous environmental regulations have […]

Our Sick Homes

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1938″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Our Sick Homes BY RU’A AL-ABWEH, CASSIE HOEPRICH, AND AKANA JAYEWARDENE June 15, 2021 In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic imposed a new reality upon us. For several months, we were in lockdown. We were forced to become intimate in whatever setting we […]

“You Are Sick”, “No, We Are Not”: Africa, the Pandemic, and the Convolution of Denial

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2200″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] “You Are Sick”, “No, We Are Not”: Africa, the Pandemic, and the Convolution of Denial. BY STEPHEN AJADI June 11, 2020   Invocations: Diagnosia I: 1995 “It is nothing”. The words come out very slowly and disconnected — like a broken record. I […]

Catfish Capital

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1979″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Catfish Capital BY SAMUEL MADDOX, WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND ZAC GAUDET June 15, 2021 It doesn’t matter out of which window you look while driving down Route 25 through the heart of Alabama’s Black Belt, a nickname given to the region in the early […]

Ecology of Uncertainty: A Spatial Meditation on Emptiness

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ecology of Uncertainty: A Spatial Meditation on Emptiness BY YESENIA PEREZ & YENI YI June 28, 2021    1 What grows beneath a freeway? Mildew, moss, mold, lichen and fungi. Creeping vines and invasive species. Spontaneous subterranean vegetal life emerges from total communion with an environment marked […]