“By reassembling lost urban histories, the people involved, and their networks of relationship, we can see a layer of community organizing that has held a neighborhood and a city together.” This is the ethos animating community archival work. Read more from @drbrandi.bsky.social & Moriah Ulinskas.

[email protected] just ran a great critical review forum on my 2022 book 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, including contributions from @juliango.bsky.social, @drbrandi.bsky.social, Alex Loftus, and Crystal Eddins, with a response from me. Free PDF version in the thread.

The way Columbia students have held it down >>>>

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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

And just like that, there's 3! The THIRD installment of "Field Notes: Repair" is out now. Read dispatches from dozens of scholars, designers, planners & activists who share their observations on the issues they find most relevant in practices of repair, maintenance & care. A new series in Places: