[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 […]
Category: 2020 Spring
Finding Space (and Myself) in Chinatown
[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=”1137″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Finding Space (and Myself) in Chinatown BY AMY ZHOU May 21, 2020 I am Chinese Canadian. Even when I first wrote these words for an earlier iteration of this article back in October, they were meaningful. Now, with COVID-19 at our doorstep and […]
411004 — 43606
[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] 411004 — 43606 BY YASHADA WAGLE May 21, 2020 [pdf-embedder url=”http://harvardurbanreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/txt-411004-43606.pdf”][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Living in Sprawl
[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=”1131″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Living in Sprawl BY SYDNEY PEDIGO May 21, 2020 [pdf-embedder url=”http://harvardurbanreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Living-in-Sprawl_v2.pdf” title=”Living in Sprawl_v2″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
City of Barricades: Violent Eviction in Contemporary Rome
[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] City of Barricades: Violent Eviction in Contemporary Rome BY ELENA CLARKE May 21, 2020 “When I first see you, I thought you should be scared.” It’s about midnight, and Fallou, a young man in his early twenties from Senegal, is walking me through Tiburtina Station to […]
Diaspora Memory and the (Emotional) Infrastructure of Ex-Yugoslavia Collective Housing
[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] Diaspora Memory and the (Emotional) Infrastructure of Ex-Yugoslavia Collective Housing BY NEVENA PILIPOVIC-WENGLER May 21, 2020 Most academic definitions of infrastructure function under the influence of Western capitalist economic and technical norms. Even when such definitions focus on critiquing this influence, the arguments often reify the […]
The Beautiful Chaos
[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] The Beautiful Chaos BY KIRTHANA SUDHAKAR April 20, 2020 “Architecture is to be appreciated at the scale of the human, at eye-level, through the experience of the street. Bengaluru robs us of this experience of architecture. One is always looking downward to dodge holes in the […]
The City Revealed
[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=”1119″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] The City Revealed BY ALEXANDRA SANYAL April 20, 2020 I’ve always been compelled by the stories with pick-your-own endings. You know, the ones in which you get to choose your own adventure and each decision you make results in an entirely different outcome? Sometimes […]
Strangers on the Subway
[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=”1116″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Strangers on the Subway BY JIAE AZAD April 20, 2020 There are certain places in the New York subway system where the tunnels enlarge to accommodate two trains going in the same direction. As the trains traverse the tracks side-by-side, sometimes there’s […]
The Day-to-Day Nonsense of Commuting While Female
[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=”1070″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] The Day-to-Day Nonsense of Commuting While Female BY SARAH ZOU September 3, 2019 In Atlanta, everyone assumes you have a car, mostly because life here depends on having one. This Metropolitan Area is one vast sprawl and it only keeps expanding. But […]
As if Being Stuck in Traffic Wasn’t Already Awful
[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=”1066″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” qode_css_animation=”” link=”https://elichavez.myportfolio.com/work”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] As if Being Stuck in Traffic Wasn’t Already Awful BY EVITA CHÁVEZ September 3, 2019 As a native Angeleno, I’ve spent most of my life in cars. If you’re not familiar with the city of Los Angeles, you should know […]
A Request in Transit
[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=”1062″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] A Request in Transit BY EMILY KLEIN September 3, 2019 Shortly after I boarded an Uptown 2/3 Express train on a recent commute, a woman entered my train car. With grey—almost white—hair, an overstuffed backpack, and an unstable gait, she made her […]