Art, Social Change, and the Green City: A Rebuke of Green Metropolitanization
Rob Krueger argues that art provides a way of framing the disconnect between “green metropolitanization” and its emancipatory potential.
Rob Krueger argues that art provides a way of framing the disconnect between “green metropolitanization” and its emancipatory potential.
This article investigates the transformation of Bangalore’s Dharmambudhi lake into the central bus terminus.
Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.
Christine Hansen uses the concept of deep time to challenge the idea that never-before-witnessed events are unprecedented. Using the case of a massive firestorm in 2009 in southeast Australia, she calls into question the shallow temporal frames through which deep time environmental phenomena are understood in Australian settler culture and offers an insight into often unnoticed ways in which contemporary society struggles with the colonial legacy.
This article explores the past and future of one of Mumbai’s largest city forests.
Have you ever wondered what big data baseball has to do with air pollution? In Episode 7 of Crosscurrents, host John Sandlos speaks with Dr. Anthony Heyes, an environmental economist researching the impact of urban air pollution.
Miriam Tola explores the entwinement of fascist biopolitics and the chemical industry at the site of the former chemical-textile plant Ex-SNIA Viscosa from the 1920s to the 1950s, and how this affected human and nonhuman bodies.
A noxious air forces Mexico City to confront its unwavering urbanizing and industrializing mission in the late twentieth century.
This collection of studies provides valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing Latin America.
The natural-looking Boston Harbor Islands have been shaped by the city of Boston for centuries, making them into urban islands.