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LABNOTES -- Here we share news, updates, and meditations by all of us at the Lab. From time to time we also invite guest contributions from colleagues who want to help us think about concepts, methods, and findings related to urban spatial and landscape research. Please read the guidelines before posting.
SPOTLIGHT: David López-Garcia
The Lab caught up with Milano alum David López Garcia (Ph.D. 2021) about his research, and the publication of his book Worker Mobility...
Urban Space Lab
3 days ago
“The Tripoli Airport Welcomes You” "مطار طرابلس يرحّب بكم"
The Promise of Infrastructure Walking along the sidewalks of Tripoli, you might stumble upon an unusual sight: a miniature airport...
Lynn Ayoub
Mar 31
Sacred Commons: Spatial Justice as Theological Praxis
A Conversation with Father Carl Public Land in People’s Hands Community Festival at Queensbridge Park, Queens. (2021). Courtesy of...
Carole Alazki
Dec 22, 2024
Karachi's Pocket Mosques
The streets of Kharadar are narrow and labyrinthine, an agglomeration of old and new structures built cheek-by-jowl in the dense urban...
Radhya Kareem
Dec 5, 2024
Infrastructure: Product to Process
The release of President Biden’s initial infrastructure plan set off a flurry of controversy and partisan debate—what constitutes...
Bart Orr
Oct 17, 2024
Street Hustle as Spatial Practice
Figure 1. Roland’s work on canvas. Photograph taken by the Noah Allison, 2024. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was...
Noah Allison
Oct 12, 2024
Haussmann's Power and Its Limits: Rue de Rennes
View of Rue de Rennes from the Tour Montparnass e. Photograph by Joseph Heathcott, 2019. One of the best vantages from which to...
Joseph Heathcott
Sep 12, 2024
Communities and shorelines in the South Bronx
View of Soundview Park (center right) and Hunts Point (left) along the Bronx River. Courtesy of Google Earth. Here at the Urban Space...
Sofya Krasnaya
Jul 10, 2024
Who cares for New York City?
We are all, in a sense, caregivers. We cook, clean, wash dishes, water plants, change diapers, pet dogs and cats, call our grandparents,...
Carlos Celis
Jul 9, 2024
Architectures of Emergency
It is June 2024. I arrive in sweltering New York City, prompted by a heatwave and pollution warning amidst the asylum seeker crisis and...
Estefania Mompean Botias
Jul 9, 2024
Mapping Religious Structures in Multiethnic Queens
For the ‘Adapted for Devotion’ project, we are currently in the process of identifying and cataloging various religious structures in our...
Isis Gamble
Jul 7, 2024
Distributional Space
This photographic essay tours the architecture and landscape condition of a large-scale collection of facilities on the western periphery...
Joseph Heathcott
Jul 1, 2024
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