cities -- urbanity -- design
Post-Industrial Urbanism
How do cities cope with large-scale political economic changes over which they have little control? Having grown up in a city undergoing the pangs of deindustrialization, this question has powerful resonance for me. A significant portion of my work explores the processes of transformation as emergent forms of capital mobility, un/re-bundling of investment, and reorganization of finance and production reshape our landscapes and built environments. I am particularly interested in the construction of a “post-industrial imaginary” as both a response to, and further driver of, these transformations.
"Abandoned Buildings and Vacant Lots as a Heritage of Racial Capitalism in Post-Industrial Cities." Lecture for the Cities Programme, London School of Economics, Sept 2021.
Temporalities of Infrastructure: Acceleration and Deceleration in the Post-Industrial Imaginary. Paper presented at the First Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infrastructure Conference, Paris, Jun 2017.
"The Bold and the Bland: Art, Redevelopment, and the Creative Commons in Post-Industrial New York." City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 19, 1 (2015).
"Deconstructing the High Line." Organizer and moderator for pubic symposium with two panels and eight presenters at The New School, Mar 2015.
"Place specificity in the emergence of urban cultural phenomena: The case of Hip-Hop and the South Bronx." Lecture, University of Amsterdam, Sept 2012.
"One New Year's Eve in a Dying City." Antioch Review 69, 2 (Spring 2011).
"Post-Acropolis." Five photographers document the Midwest metropolitan landscape, with work by Michael Allen, Toby Weiss, Robert Powers, Clare Boyd, and John Montre. Curator.
"Infrastructure 2.0: A Stimulus Package for All of Us." National Civic Review 98, 2 (Summer 2010).
"Urban Activism in a Downsizing World: Neighborhood Organizing in Post-Industrial Chicago." City and Community 4, 3 (Fall 2005).
