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Uneven development and the anti-politics machine
December 2024

The Market Value Analysis (MVA), and similar algorithms, perpetuate racial and class-based inequalities by embedding systemic biases into urban planning and the geography of cities …
The urban-tech feedback loop
November 2024

Tech companies are reshaping cities through a feedback loop where consumer behaviors, tracked via smartphones, inform the design of urban spaces tailored to affluent users, …
From FOSS to profit
October 2024

Through tracing the historical evolution of these formats, we uncover how digital labor—whether voluntary, outsourced, or co-opted—plays a role in shaping the operations of for-profit …
The Amazon Warehouse
September 2024

Amazon’s warehouses are vast, windowless spaces, each the size of multiple football fields, where thousands of employees and over half a million robots work in …
Interrogating narratives of urban change
August 2024

Baltimore’s treatment of majority-Black neighborhoods versus Latine/x areas illustrates how racist logics structure urban development. While Latine/x neighborhoods like Highlandtown are framed as vibrant immigrant …
The Ground Rent Machine
June 2024

In Baltimore, Maryland, more than 55,000 homes—roughly 30 percent of all residential plots—are subject to ground rent, a legacy of British feudal property law. Under …

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