Sick Space: A Letter from the Editors BY JIAE AZAD + ASHER KAPLAN SPRING 2021 Dear reader, There is no single, overarching account of life under pandemic conditions. As of this writing, the pandemic’s many overlapping zones of crisis and recovery continue to shift along boundaries largely determined by precedent geographies of exploitation and domination.
Image by Elisa Rolle Detroit: Decay, Displacement, and Exploitation BY JACK SCHULTE June 30, 2021 On July 18, 2013 the City of Detroit filed for bankruptcy, the largest municipal Chapter 9 filing in American history. Detroit’s bankruptcy marked the culmination of a drawn-out fiscal struggle for the city. After many years of chronic financial and
Image by Fangyuan Sheng Water Miner: Plant Cultivation and Water Conservation Project 5.0 BY MINGYANG SUN & FANYUAN SHENG June 21, 2021 By 2025, frequent extreme weather and air pollution made Johannesburg’s surface no longer suitable for human habitation. As a result, residents used advanced engineering technology to develop the subterranean structure of the
Morality as a Cure: Catholicism and Working-Class Housing in Early 20th Century Colombia BY JUAN SEBASTIAN MORENO "The priests shall teach the ignorant peasant, the informal worker, the unclean poor, the selfish chieftain, that moral and physical perfection will not be reached if cleanliness and order in the rooms and in the people are neglected."
Letter from the Editor BY EVAN HAZELETT May 21, 2020 Dear readers, I am pleased to present The Urban Review’s third edition, I’s on the Street. In this collection, we bring together work from graduate students at three universities across several degrees and disciplines. The authors, from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Columbia
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A More Perfect (Theoretical) Union: Engels, Haussmann, and Hooper BY EVAN HAZELETT April 8, 2019 “The very turmoil of the streets has something repulsive, something against which human nature rebels… And still they crowd by one another as though they had nothing in common… Everywhere barbarous indifference, hard egotism on one hand, and nameless
