[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_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”1965″ img_size=”394×512″ alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] 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 […]
Author: Evan Hazelett
Detroit: Decay, Displacement, and Exploitation
[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=”2070″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] 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 […]
Water Miner: Plant Cultivation and Water Conservation Project 5.0
[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=”1986″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] 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 […]
Morality as a Cure: Catholicism and Working-Class Housing in Early 20th Century Colombia
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Letter from the Editor
[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] 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 […]
A More Perfect (Theoretical) Union: Engels, Haussmann, and Hooper
[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] 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 […]