I have since pivoted from vegetables to more flowers, but a different set of problems has taken hold.
Category Archive: urban studies
In the 1979 cult classic The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, a down-on-their-luck basketball team called the Pittsburgh Pythons is desperate for a change of fortune. They lose constantly, despite being led by the legendary Julius “Dr. J” Erving, and in a strange twist they turn to an astrologer (Stockard Channing) for help…
Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of, quasi-public space that is now disappearing.
While working on Brain Magnet, I got the chance to sit down for a chat with Michigan State […]
Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story “Nevsky Prospect” opens with a paean to the vivacity of life on its titular street.
The aesthetic terms of Socialist Realism are determined by the project’s ability to reflect a particular nation’s iteration of a socialist politics.
Historian Kristin Szylvian schools us about the forgotten history of mutual housing in America
Georgia State’s Kell Hall was a mystifying yet charmingly awful symbol of the university’s long ramp from the swamps to the stars.