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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.
Aratrika Debnath
Jun 5, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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...
Joseph Heathcott
Dec 5, 2023
A Green Oasis in the Megacity
Amidst the seemingly endless sprawl of concrete and asphalt that comprises Mexico City's landscape, there is a place where you can sit in...
Joseph Heathcott
Nov 18, 2023
Notes on the Urban Macroform of Mexico City
This slide deck describes a range of morphologies that comprise the contemporary landscape of Mexico City. By morphologies (also referred...
Joseph Heathcott
Jul 1, 2023
Farewell, Iron Triangle
Aerial view of the Iron Triangle before and after demolition. Google Earth, 2012 and 2019. One of the more unique landscapes to emerge...
Veronica Olivotto
Oct 7, 2022
Interviews: Selection and Saturation
The interview phase of our study is based on a grounded theory approach, which holds that researchers conduct interviews until reaching a...
Veronica Olivotto
Jun 15, 2022
Scholarly literature on vacant land
Mowed and fenced vacant lot in Edgemere (Queens, NYC) To understand vacancy and abandonment as urban phenomena, it is necessary to first...
Cédric Gottfried
May 30, 2022
Meaning and Place in Abandoned Communities
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the fixation of capital around industries provided enough shared wealth to produce extensive...
Cédric Gottfried
Apr 28, 2022
Ruderal Landcapes + Urban Nature Management
The notion of the ruderal helps shine light on urban nature as intricately entwined in human social, political, and economic relations. ...
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