gentrification

Inside Michigan Central Station under construction, a decaying archway is featured behind construction tape, a sign that reads "Men Working Above," and a construction worker walking in front of the archway toward a construction machine.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 5June 24, 2020

Detroit and the Glorification of the Past

By Christian Golden

Ed.note: This article is part of our bi-annual, peer-reviewed Student Voices section. Click here to read the introduction and the other articles in the section.

What is the first thing that pops into your mind when you hear the word, …

Deep Dives, no. 1, vol. 3February 28, 2018

The Urban Light Art Festival as Branding and Commons

By Annie Dell'Aria

The modernist imagination often filled the city of the future with an abundance of nocturnal urban lights. Massive screens, searchlights, illuminated facades, and other electric lights crowd the mise-en-scene of science fiction films and speculative renderings of the metropolis of …

From the Archive, no. 5, vol. 2December 17, 2017

Moving Image Archives as Urban Palimpsest

By Nicholas Avedisian-Cohen

How is it that moving images convey a sense of a city? This is an appropriate question for film studies at a time when cinema as a mode of viewership seems a vestigial part of twentieth century urban life. For …

no. 4, Student Voices, vol. 2October 27, 2017

Ruins, Representation, and the Right to the City

By Spencer Cunningham

Contemporary urban environments offer a wealth of rich social and cultural narratives for analysis. Cities lend themselves to media practices of photography and film, providing aesthetic representations of contemporary urban life. The city is not only a geographic place, it …