Resiliency In Communities
Often when one thinks about gentrification, the thought of displaced people, escalating rents and a change in culture is the first thing that pops up in mind. Although still horrifyingly true, the idea of gentrification also brings the idea of resiliency and a communities’ desires to stay until the very end. It is easy to […]
Waze and the Politics of Public Spaces and New York Has Solved the Problem of Public Art. But at What Cost?
In his article, Waze and the Politics of Public Spaces, Wells recalls an incident that happened where a socially driven GPS app, Waze, navigated him the wrong way in reaching a destination. Throughout his piece, he expresses his bewilderment on both the functioning of the app and the motives that drove the inhabitants of the […]