"The Guppy Experience", the Evolution of Bicycle Infrastructure in Newark and New York, 1980-2010 by C.W. SleasmanSite Description:Site Description Edit 1: “Goddammit, I swear it’s like riding on the surface of the moon!” Another shouted curse flung into the miasma of...
From Pride to Prejudice: How Egyptian Identity Politics Sculpted the World’s Largest Garbage City through Ethnoreligious Divisions, 1940-1970s
From Pride to Prejudice: How Egyptian Identity Politics Sculpted the World’s Largest Garbage City through Ethnoreligious Divisions, 1940-1970s by Arthanious ShafikSite Description:Mansheyet Nasser is a district of Cairo, Egypt. Cairo is one of the largest metropolises...
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Curtains of Smoke: An analysis on the Jones and Laughlin's Pittsburgh Works Steel Mill and the affect its pollution had on the local community, 1945-1960. by Joey CraskaSite Description:This site will dive into the affects that the Pittsburgh steel mills had on the...
Coal Ash in Uniontown, Alabama
“That smell ... it makes you want to vomit”: Uniontown, Alabama’s Fight Against Pollution (2000 - 2022) Jozy BentleySite Description: Uniontown, Alabama is a small (predominantly, 90.6%) black city that sits in Perry County. The people of this community have been...
California’s Black Heroin
Los Angeles Urban Oil Drilling: California’s Black Heroin by J. SedilloSite Description: Oil was discovered in Los Angeles County in the early 1890’s, the ‘Los Angeles Oil Field’ was once the top producing oil field in California. Though Los Angeles county is the...
Do you know what your children are exposed to?
Do you know what your children are exposed to?: An inside look at how schools and recreational locations in modern day Newark, NJ are the most harmful to this city’s children by Anahi MunozSite Description: South Street School, built in 2016, is an elementary school...
Segregation over Safety
Segregation Over Safety:Suburbanization of Staten Island Via Fresh Kills Landfill (1948-2021) by J. LopezSite Description: Staten Island, or in more legal terms Richmond County, used to house the largest landfill in the world, opened in 1948. Fresh Kills Landfill was...
RPM Act
The RPM Act: How will the act affect us all in Englishtown, NJ (1972-2021) by Jason JimenezSite Description: Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act (RPM Act) is an act that allows those who modify their vehicles for the purpose of racing. Currently our street...
Bye Bye, Hydrogen Sulfide
Bye Bye, Hydrogen Sulfide: How a Grassroot Movement in Kearny, New Jersey Shut Down a Local Toxic Landfill by Victoria GarzianoSite Description: Keegan Landfill is a dumping ground located in Kearny, New Jersey. When opened in the 1950’s, this landfill was used to...
The Other Side of Water
The Other Side of Water: Instead of involving community, New York City’s went to greenwashing to hide an Environmental Injustice and Poor Planning by Anis ShiliSite Description: By 1938, the Department of Public Works considers channeling all waste from Manhattan’s...