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Race and the Urban Landscape: The Historical and Social Impact of Skyscrapers with Adrienne Brown
The skyscraper is certainly not an understudied building typology. It has received plenty of scholarly attention in the century-and-a-half of its existence. A recent search for skyscrapers in the Library of Congress catalog resulted in 391 listings, which...
The great twentieth-century transformation of urban landscapes
Urban landscapes are where Pokémon Go players have recently started to go to catch virtual creatures lurking in a GPS version of what I naively think of as the real world. They are visible environments that are constant background to our lives in towns and...
