Topic Urbanism

Excerpt: Home-Grown Justice In a Legacy City, by Karen Freeman-Wilson

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Jul 14, 2020

“Depopulated Nighthawks” by D Rohrer

Andreina Seijas charts the emergence of the “night mayor”—an advocate, mediator, and policy-maker for a city’s nocturnal life

Cities don’t close when mayors sign out of their email accounts and City Hall turns…

Jul 9, 2020

Excerpt: Up From the Basement: The Artist and the Making of the Just City, by Theaster Gates

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Jul 7, 2020

drawing showing outdoor market with people buying and selling

Excerpt: In It Together, by Lesley Lokko

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Jun 30, 2020

Illustration of a cityscape with Black people in the street

Excerpt: Urban Spaces and the Mattering of Black Lives, by Darnell L. Moore

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Jun 23, 2020

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Design as Protest: How can designers stand for, fight for, and build an anti-racist future?

“For nearly every injustice in the world, there is an architecture that has been planned…

Jun 22, 2020

Illustration of the inside of a subway car, with the words

Excerpt: Defining the Just City Beyond Black and White, by Toni L. Griffin

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Jun 15, 2020

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Diane Davis on the GSD’s Risk and Resilience track: “As we face the global virus pandemic, our mission appears ever more important.”

In these tough times, when dystopian fears loom large and the design professions…

May 20, 2020

Bing Wang on COVID-19’s impact on the real estate sector: “Will the pandemic force us to recognize that our built environment is ill-prepared for emergencies?”

The crisis brought about by the coronavirus has utterly paralyzed the normal functioning of society…

May 19, 2020

Abstract image with bandaids

The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing

Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…

May 1, 2020