From Red Lines to Toxic Sites: The Legacy of Discriminatory Housing in Newark’s Ironbound by Juliamny Fernandez Site Description:Newark’s Ironbound District is located along the Passaic River in New Jersey. The area surrounding Wilson Avenue and Ferry Street sits...
From Brewing Jobs to Luxury Lofts: The Ballantine Redevelopment and the Future of the Ironbound
From Brewing Jobs to Luxury Lofts: The Ballantine Redevelopment and the Future of the Ironbound by Justin RibeiroSite Description:The Ballantine brewery is located in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey. There is a lot of history behind this brewery; it was...
When Water Turns into Poison: Race, Women, Class, and the Fight for Clean Water in Flint, Michigan (2014 – Present)
When Water Turns into Poison: Race, Women, Class, and the Fight for Clean Water in Flint, Michigan (2014 - Present) by Calixte AbandaSite Description:In 2014, Flint, a city in Michigan, became known around the world because of the water crisis that started there. To...
Eternal grief in City of God: socio-environmental inequalities connecting the flood disasters of 1966 and 1996 in Rio de Janeiro
Eternal grief in City of God: socio-environmental inequalities connecting the flood disasters of 1966 and 1996 in Rio de Janeiro by C.M. FreitasSite Description:This report focuses on the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents the history of two impactful...
From Pride to Prejudice: How Egyptian Politics Sculpted the World’s Largest “Garbage City”, 1940-1970s
From Pride to Prejudice: How Egyptian Politics Sculpted the World’s Largest “Garbage City”, 1940-1970s by Arthanious ShafikSite Description:Mansheyet Nasser is a district of Cairo, Egypt. Cairo is one of the largest metropolises in the middle east. Known as the...
A Tale of Two Cities: Stories of Race, Place, and Lead Contamination in Trenton, New Jersey and Levittown, Pennsylvania, 1950-1960
A Tale of Two Cities: Stories of Race, Place, and Lead Contamination in Trenton, New Jersey and Levittown, Pennsylvania, 1950-1960 by Gabriella ZalotSite Description:“Trenton makes, the world takes.” Although this reference to Trenton’s successful, industrial history...
A Split City: The Cross Bronx Expressway
A Split City: The Destruction of the South Bronx by Qudsiya SyeddaSite Description:Popular drill rapper Ice Spice once said "We both from the Bronx, so I know that you dirty(dirty)" in her song No Clarity. The Bronx borough has longtime had the repuation of being an...
E Pluribus Unum
E Pluribus Unum: How A Small New Jersey Suburb Received One of The Most Complicated Cleanups in EPA History (1979-2021) by Gabe M. WeirSite Description:In the 1920s, on the border of Glen Ridge and Orange, NJ, the US Radium Company operated a factory where radium...
Noise Can Do More
Noise can do More than just hurt your ears: How Noise pollution is hurting the community of Crotona Park East and Morrisania, Bronx, NY (1980) by Joshua Matthew TalbanSite Description: Noise pollution in New York City dates back to the early 20th century and continues...
Drowning in the Raritan
Drowning in the Raritan:Working-Class Central New Jersey Towns Left Flooded and Looking for Help (1990-2021) by Hunter TagliaboschiSite Description: The Raritan River causing flooding has been an ongoing issue in the central part of NJ for decades and notably...