Ferguson, USA: Mapping the Political

In under-served, poor U.S. urban and suburban neighborhoods, years of racialized policy maneuvers and corporate wrangling have clouded architects’ prospects of impactfully engaging communities. This project offers another lens on conceptualizing sites complicated by those invisible economic forces. Ferguson, USA is part of a mapping project that spatializes the political, together with the formal and processual. It updates inherited conventions of “site analysis,” and helps us expand the landscape urbanist notion of a productive “urban surface,” as a new pedagogy for more critically engaging place.1 The pages here present a snapshot of drawings that re-cast the contested suburban landscape of Ferguson, MO through the particularities of the political economy that shape it.2

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.96

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978-1-944214-37-1