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…
Category Archive: urban studies
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.
We know you nasty little tweakers can’t get enough raw coverage of the SACRPH (Society for American City […]