vol. 4
Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium
Lisbon: tiny boat lights flicker in the darkness of the port at night, a boy skates back and forth in a courtyard in the bright daylight, sounds from the home blend with traffic noise from the street below, city life …
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A Phenomenological Reading of Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities
Though published almost sixty years ago, urbanist Jane Jacobs’ 1961 Death and Life of Great American Cities continues to grow in conceptual and pragmatic significance.1Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities,NY: Random House, 1961/1993; …
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Landscape as Loneliness in The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show (Bogdonavich, 1971) begins and ends with the same shot: a pan across a vacant Texas town that seems all but forgotten, its main street marked only with a single trafficlight that sways from a flimsy wire …
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Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project: Celebrating Histories of Industrial Labor and Potential Futures of Ecological Abundance
The Carrie Furnaces are the remains of a blast furnace site where minerals were combined to create pig iron, the base material that is refined into steel (Figure 1 and 2). Though the original footprint of the site was about …
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