Work published in Urban Affairs includes writing on housing, ethnography, geography, social justice, and architecture.
Urban Affairs and Architecture
Columbia Journalism School was born of Pulitzer’s vision but reshaped by politics, crises, and New York itself. This essay uncovers how a century of tension between profession and academy forged its identity.
Urban Affairs and Architecture
A comparative history of Minneapolis’s Skyway and Montreal’s RÉSO shows how transit integration, planning priorities, and public-private dynamics shaped two distinct models of climate-controlled pedestrian systems.
Urban Affairs and Architecture
In a car-centred city plagued by vehicular pollution, this proposal identifies streets to be modified with human centred design at its core. These streets implement bike lanes, bus lanes, wider sidewalks, and increased tree coverage - all of which encourage the use of alternate transportation.
Urban Affairs and Architecture
As we face the challenges of climate change, urbanization, and a fragmented global landscape, architecture must evolve—becoming more dynamic, adaptive, and interdisciplinary.
Urban Affairs and Architecture
Patronage shapes the meaning and experience of an architectural space by prescribing size, shape, and content to enforce personal values of the patrons of Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Isfahan, and St Peter’s Square, Rome.
Social Studies, History, and Humanities
When most people think of a campus in New York, they tend to think they are integrated throughout town, mixed in with the skyscrapers and business of the city. However, Barnumbia can lock all its entrancesinto campus, closing itself off from the surrounding neighborhoods and residents of Harlem.
UEI Papers and Reports
Jackson Heights is considered one of the most diverse and important places in all of New York City. At the same time, the low quantities of green space in the area invite new, creative ways to integrate infrastructure that promotes community and greenery.
UEI Papers and Reports
This study mobilizes deep mapping and GIS spatialization research to investigate how public art and open-space murals are embedded within Washington, DC’s urban landscape. Indexing these public arts allows a more compressive understanding of these vibrant enclaves of the nation’s capital.
UEI Papers and Reports
From towering architectural monuments to the intricate and precise layout of city streets, the spaces humans inhabit profoundly shape behaviour and ways of life.
UEI Papers and Reports
This paper will explore the nature of ephemeral urban spaces with special attention to the physical, linguistic, and political barriers that complexify the asylum and migrant experience for new arrivals in New York.
UEI Papers and Reports
The concept of spatial justice emerges as a central component of justice as a contemporary topic; in this way, the very bedrock of justice itself becomes more dynamic and flexible to the changing conditions of our social world.