Category: 2020 Spring

Letter from the Editor

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Finding Space (and Myself) in Chinatown

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411004 — 43606

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Living in Sprawl

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City of Barricades: Violent Eviction in Contemporary Rome

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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

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The City Revealed

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Strangers on the Subway

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The Day-to-Day Nonsense of Commuting While Female

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As if Being Stuck in Traffic Wasn’t Already Awful

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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 […]