This post is the first in a series by guest author, Carter Weeks Maddox. Carter Weeks Maddox teaches English composition at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he recently completed a graduate degree in literature.… Read More
This is a guest post from Kate Balug, an artist and producer of cultural urban projects. Her current research includes an examination of critical imagination as a tool to redefine urban paradigms, intervention… Read More
This is an entry by guest author Marcel LaFlamme, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, who is currently conducting fieldwork in North Dakota. Those of us who care… Read More
While much has been made about New Orleans’ unique architecture and urbanism, questions about architectural authenticity and the role of preservation continue to be re-hashed in the context of post-Katrina redevelopment, with concerns… Read More
This is an entry by guest author Christina Calabrese, an urban planner and designer from Brooklyn, NY. This is the second in a series of articles based on her graduate thesis, Reading and… Read More
This is an entry by guest author Alexandra Miller, an urban planner living in New Orleans. You can follower her on twitter. On August 4th-7th, 2011, six collaborators, including all of Plurale… Read More
A few weeks ago, a friend asked me for a list of articles on “queer planning” to integrate into his artwork. I slapped something together and thought it worth sharing here. This isn’t… Read More
This is an entry by guest author Christina Calabrese, an urban planner and designer from Brooklyn, NY. This is the first in a series of articles based on her graduate thesis, Reading and… Read More
Recently, the resident authors of Plurale Tantum were asked to participate in the Congress of New Urbanism’s NextGen Symposium, on the topic of “Cultural Urbanism.” Upon hearing this, someone emailed me saying, “Hey!… Read More
This is a new type of entry, which we call Conversations. Each month, we will choose an article from another source, send it out to a group of people, and post the conversation… Read More
The Resident Pluralists of Plurale Tantum will be presenting our approach and proto-framework for analyzing, planning, and designing urban spaces at NextGen8, a one-day symposium leading up to the Congress for New Urbanism’s 19th… Read More
A year ago January, I started what I intended to be a year-long art project during which I would record my paths through the city each day. My plan was to take the… Read More
My partner and I often joke that our respective interests have gotten closer and closer over time, to the point that we have begun to wonder when they will simply merge. She is… Read More
“Take away, for the moment, the identifiable markers of the gay and lesbian experience, and imagine a social protest movement that, throughout the twentieth century, has created an independent urban culture, suffered police… Read More
