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What has growing up rural taught me about urban planning?
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.”
Collaging ‘Quinta Monroy’
by Maud Webster Architectural practice ELEMENTAL’s social housing project in Chile lends itself well to the creative process of collaging.
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.
RTA Bus Stop on Canyon Crest Dr
by Laura Chansavang A vivid art piece focusing an RTA Bus Stop on Canyon Crest Dr and the people bustling around it.
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…
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.
‘Full Circle’ & ‘My Vacation’
by Samantha Nicole Inspired by a beautiful mountain scape, the mixed media piece “My Vacation” explores the toxicity that exists within our own Earthly dynamic.
‘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.”
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