Communities and shorelines in the South Bronx
View of Soundview Park (center right) and Hunts Point (left) along the Bronx River. Courtesy of Google Earth. Here at the Urban Space...
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LABNOTES -- Here we share news, updates, and meditations by all of us at the Lab. From time to time we also invite guest contributions from colleagues who want to help us think about concepts, methods, and findings related to urban spatial and landscape research. Please read the guidelines before posting.
Carlos Celis
Jul 9
Who cares for New York City?
We are all, in a sense, caregivers. We cook, clean, wash dishes, water plants, change diapers, pet dogs and cats, call our grandparents,...
Architectures of Emergency
It is June 2024. I arrive in sweltering New York City, prompted by a heatwave and pollution warning amidst the asylum seeker crisis and...
Isis Gamble
Jul 7
Mapping Religious Structures in Multiethnic Queens
For the ‘Adapted for Devotion’ project, we are currently in the process of identifying and cataloging various religious structures in our...
Joseph Heathcott
Jul 1
Distributional Space
This photographic essay tours the architecture and landscape condition of a large-scale collection of facilities on the western periphery...
Carole Alazki
Jun 21
Decommodifying Housing and Green Spaces
After moving to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, my research trajectory took an unexpected but enriching turn. Joining the local community garden...
Urban Space Lab
Jun 6
COVID-19 and the Changing Geographies of Care
Oscar Sosa López and Carlos J. Celis We made some significant progress in the project during the spring of 2024. We updated the research...
Aratrika Debnath
Jun 5
Finding Faith in Familiar Spaces
Imagine a bustling Queens street, a vibrant collage of cultures moving through and inhabiting space. Here, amidst the bodegas and...
Carole Alazki
Jun 1
The right to the future green Gowanus
Gowanus Green Development Plan. (Source: SCAPE Studio, 2020) The relentless pursuit of economic growth has led to extensive environmental...
Aratrika Debnath
May 16
Religious Diversity and Transcultural Placemaking
Fan Yin Sin Monastery, Flushing. The Monastery is located in an ordinary suburban home, but with the installation of an elaborate garden...
Urban Space Lab
May 10
Sosa López and Celis present at Urban Affairs Association
Oscar Sosa López and Carlos Celis presented their current research at the 52nd meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, held in New York...
Aratrika Debnath
Apr 17
Adapted for Devotion: Toward a Conceptual Framework
Geeta Temple, located in a former warehouse, Woodside, Queens. The basic premise of our project is that the ethnic and religious...
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