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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.
Carole Alazki
Dec 22, 2024
Sacred Commons: Spatial Justice as Theological Praxis
A Conversation with Father Carl Public Land in People’s Hands Community Festival at Queensbridge Park, Queens. (2021). Courtesy of...
Radhya Kareem
Dec 5, 2024
Karachi's Pocket Mosques
The streets of Kharadar are narrow and labyrinthine, an agglomeration of old and new structures built cheek-by-jowl in the dense urban...
Bart Orr
Oct 17, 2024
Infrastructure: Product to Process
The release of President Biden’s initial infrastructure plan set off a flurry of controversy and partisan debate—what constitutes...
Noah Allison
Oct 12, 2024
Street Hustle as Spatial Practice
Figure 1. Roland’s work on canvas. Photograph taken by the Noah Allison, 2024. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was...
Joseph Heathcott
Sep 11, 2024
Haussmann's Power and Its Limits: Rue de Rennes
View of Rue de Rennes from the Tour Montparnass e. Photograph by Joseph Heathcott, 2019. One of the best vantages from which to...
Sofya Krasnaya
Jul 10, 2024
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...
Carlos Celis
Jul 9, 2024
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,...
Estefania Mompean Botias
Jul 9, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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...
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