M OST ACADEMIC DISCUSSION about pornography has focused on the term in its, shall
we say, classical use: pornography of a sexual nature. But right under the nose of the …

This article contributes to scholarship on urban visual culture by advancing understandings
of how visual imageries may become (online and off-line) sites of confrontation between …

This illustrated essay attempts to respond to the slow violence of the hazardous waste trade.
We introduce and analyze common representational styles of hazardous waste …

A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A
campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo …

This article considers a group of residents from South Bend, Indiana who sought to visually
rebrand their city using Instagram. It asks how a group that sees itself as prizing authenticity …

This article appropriates philosopher Glenn Albrecht's neologism solastalgia, originally
coined to refer to the sensation of existential anguish during environmental crisis, to refer to …

This chapter follows a small team of urban planners as they tour thirteen vacant schools in
Detroit. The schools were selected from a list of fifty-seven that the City of Detroit recently …

This essay discusses a project in which the practice of doing public history collided with the
neoliberal ethos of the monetization of historical memory. 1 The essay explores the …

In recent years a burgeoning bicycle culture has reanimated the city of Detroit. The following
essay analyzes this reanimation through the themes of embodiment, mobility, spatiality, and …

Urban planning is a progressive endeavor. Planners strive to improve cities, to make them
more equitable, beautiful, sustainable, and resilient. This aspirational quality reveals a …