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We are a platform that commissions and shares relevant ideas, proposals, and experiences that connect diverse disciplines and place. We want the work to respond to our current context while having a rigor and depth that makes it relevant through time and changing conditions.

Current Issue

Vigilantism

In this issue we explore spaces of vigilantism, both historically and today. What are the spatial dimensions of vigilante encounters, segregation, violence, and exclusion, or conversely emancipation, liberation, and inclusion? Threshold, circulation, private vs. public, and other architectural delineations of space have become the subject of much controversy as footage of sexist and racist policing of these spaces emerge.

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Vigilantism featured spread

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Urban Exploration as Creative Practice

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Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

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The “Passion Tax” is History

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The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community

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Art at the James R. Thompson Center

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