A Green New Deal for Transportation

Views of 14th St. on Thu., October 4, 2019, the day that the 14th Street Busway went into effect, speeding trips for customers aboard the M14-SBS bus route. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit A Green New Deal for Transportation BY EMILY KENNEDY June 15, 2021 The transportation sector is the

Detroit: Decay, Displacement, and Exploitation

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

The Case of the Incomprehensible Stadium

Image by Julián Huertas The Case of the Incomprehensible Stadium BY JULIÁN HUERTAS June 15, 2021 This graphic novel manifesto is the result of a Summer 2020 independent study with Dr. Ann Forsyth. I broadly studied and researched the complexities of land use regulation, economic development, public-private development, and models of social, racial, and gender equity

Artwork by Kay Lee

Artwork BY KAY LEE June 15, 2021 cuckooland (small), acrylic on canvas, 36x48 wissahickon, 2020, gouache on paper, 11_x14_ wetland, graphite on panel, 20_x16_ (1) Kay Lee is a second-year MFA student at the University of Pennsylvania. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Kay explores her identity, discomforts, and traumas as a young, non-binary Asian in

Floating Between Borders

Photo by Mingjia Chen & Diana Guo Floating Between Borders BY DIANA GUO AND MINGJIA CHEN June 15, 2021 Cultural geographer Denis Cosgrove treats the modern airport as a poetic metaphor exemplifying the modern world’s unboundedness, flexibility, and mobility. For him, the constant flow of travelers represents a modern global interchange that cuts across both

American Warehouse: DIY Undergrounds and Urban Displacement

Illustration by Thomas J Gamble American Warehouse: DIY Undergrounds and Urban Displacement BY SEAN J PATRICK CARNEY June 15, 2021 Empty Warehouses  Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, experimental venues proliferated in cavernous, disused factories and warehouses from Providence to Oakland, Chicago to New Orleans, and Baltimore to Seattle. These collectively organized DIY (do-it-yourself) spaces furnished non-professional

The Comorbidities of Urban Space: The Price is Right

Photo by Jarrodd Davis The Comorbidities of Urban Space: The Price is Right BY JARRODD DAVIS June 11, 2021 Over/Under Philadelphia’s Grays Ferry neighborhood and scores of similar neighborhoods – formerly overlooked, underinvested, oversaturated with poverty, and underestimated – have long been forced to react to the mechanisms of racial capitalism. The systematic undervaluing of

The Desnivel Insurgentes-Mixcoac Protests: Clean Air, Citizenship, and Middle-Class Participation in a Mexico City Urban Planning Project

A piece of a tree that was demolished during the 'Deprimido Mixcoac' construction. Photo by Irma Olivo. The Desnivel Insurgentes-Mixcoac Protests: Clean Air, Citizenship, and Middle-Class Participation in a Mexico City Urban Planning Project BY ARON LESSER June 20, 2021 In June of 2015, a group of retired women tied themselves to their neighborhoods’ largest

Poisoned Prisons

Poisoned Prisons BY DIANA DROGARIS June 20, 2021 Since its heyday of the early-to-mid 20th century, Appalachia’s coal economy has all but evaporated. A combination of advances in coal extraction technologies, the fall of natural gas prices, and imperfect but efficiaous environmental regulations have led to a steep decline in coal-related employment and investment; remote