Tag: Urban Environment
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Gentrification is Coming for the Internet
in InterviewsBig Tech is gentrifying not only urban spaces but digital ones, too. Communications professor Jessa Lingel explains how.
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The Young Lords’ Fight for Environmental Justice in NYC
Erik Wallenberg reviews Johanna Fernández’s award-winning book on the Young Lords and connects their political project of securing garbage pickup and medical access for New Yorkers to the broader environmental justice movement.
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To Build a New Capital City, Indonesia Must Design for Resilience
Indonesia plans to move its capital city from Jakarta to Borneo. Jeamme Chia, Gioia Montana Connell, and Dewi Tan argue that the new capital provides an opportunity address existing housing, water management, and land issues.
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Infrastructure’s Inequalities: A Conversation with Nikhil Anand and Nausheen Anwar
in PodcastsGeographer Siddharth Menon interviews anthropologist Nikhil Anand and urban planner Nausheen Anwar about infrastructures and development in India and Pakistan.
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Why Pigeons Can’t Be Pigeonholed
in EssaysConsider the pigeon. Impossible to categorize as nature or culture, the space between these binaries is where they thrive.
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Chicago’s Deep History of Vegetarianism: A Conversation with Connie Johnston and Kay Stepkin
in PodcastsThe National Vegetarian Museum celebrates Chicago’s vegetarian past with a traveling exhibit about the vegetarian firsts of the Second City and beyond.
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Decolonizing Infrastructure in India and the US: A Conversation with Malini Ranganathan
in PodcastsTwo urban geographers discuss decolonization in theory and practice, the politics of water and infrastructure, and the social sides of environmental science.
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MetroCard Mosaics Celebrate Migration
in ExhibitsIn “A Manifesto about Migration, Freedom, and Diversity,” one artist creates mosaics of New York’s migratory birds from recycled MetroCards.
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Slow-Motion Disaster and Extreme Weather: Five Questions for Judith Helfand
in InterviewsThe 1995 Chicago heat wave revealed how racism and poverty are the slow-motion disasters that become glaringly visible during extreme weather events. A new documentary film tells this story.
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Hey Snow! It’s Not You, It’s Us
in EssaysFrom toxic street slush to plowed-in cars, winter can be frustrating. But it doesn’t have to be. A historian uncovers 19th-century lessons for working with—not against—the snow.