STL Brick Bank
by Jakob Junghanss (ETH Zurich Exchange Program) In the last decades, St. Louis' built legacy…
Topic Social Equity
Bed Rooms
by Qin Ye Chen (MArch I '22) In Bed Rooms, five modes of activation…
Learning from Susan Fainstein: Do planners have a responsibility to fight for social equity?
Susan Fainstein’s ideas for the “just city” crystallized in the 1960s and ’70s, during a…
Living is Form
by John Wagner (MArch II '19) Among the extents of international human aid facilitated by…
The Collective Amnesia of Sugar Land: Unearthing a link between mass incarceration and slavery
In early 2018, the remains of 95 people were found in Sugar Land, Texas, as…
Highlights from the 2019 “Black Futurism: Creating a More Equitable Future” Conference
Highlights from the 2019 Black in Design Conference,…
Love in a Mist—or Devil in a Bush? How the politics of fertility relate to the subjugation of the natural world
In June 1648, a Puritan midwife named Margaret Jones was executed by hanging from an…
Metro Strand: Renewed Vitality for Overtown in an Urbanizing Miami
by Sam Adkisson (MAUD ’19) and Hiroki Kawashima (MAUD ’19). Metro Strand: Renewed Vitality for…
Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class
America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…
The Affordability Crisis: What are the greatest challenges to affordable housing today?
At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, affordable housing is an urgent concern…