Author: Evan Hazelett

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." [...]