by Elijah Gullett
” Good urban planning matters because it connects our communities, knits them closer together, by creating a built environment that facilitates connection over isolation.”
Category Archives: Urban Planning
6-Feet Apart: redefining the Right to the City in the COVID crisis
by Foong Xiu Ting
“Driving was one of the most unusual and freeing experiences during the circuit breaker.”
Placemaking Under Lockdown: Simulation Games and the City
by Sakuko Sugawara
“Amidst quarantine orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, people are resorting to creating spaces within their household. One such example, is the recent surge in people who play simulation games such as The Sims and Citystate.”
Beastly pandemic places: the coronavirus-nature genre and the interspecies city
by Sean Chua
Exploring the impact of the pandemic of animals and nature within cities.
Who owns the Naked Barbie?
by Lili Boenigk (Columbia)
“A naked Barbie may be incongruous, vulgar, and strange, but it is a key player in the connection I feel to my neighborhood and my sense of place within it.”
Without Passing By: Pandemic Placelessness and the Future of Urban Life
By Emma Grimley
“The impact of COVID-19 on cities can hardly be overstated – it has forced a complete recalibration of daily urban lives to navigate the geography of anxiety based on the threat of disease transmission.”
The architecture / urban planning (false) dichotomy
by XingYue Wen and Wenqi Ni
“The use of “building” and “infrastructure” reinforced a conceptual split between the disciplines of architecture and urban planning, and further restricts architects and urban planners to thinking solely within the confines of their respective domains.”
Surveillance & the City
by Maud Webster
A piece discussing issues of surveillance within city planning, and how methods of control are implemented in our urban spaces.
‘Joy, leisure & activism in urban life’
by Hannah Cohen-Sidley Dyptic of oil painting and Photoshop digital art of various ways of understanding joy and leisure and activism in urban life.
Pandemic Exclusions: Making Place in a State that Renders Them None
by Michele Chong
“The greatest inequality that COVID-19 has shed light on is the differential treatment of migrant workers in Singapore.”