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Race and the Built Environment Guide

Architectural Theory Articles

Avila, Eric R. 2004. “Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight : Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imagery.” Journal of Urban History, November, 3–22.  Available online via Sage.

Baydar, Gülsüm. “The Cultural Burden of Architecture.” Journal of Architectural Education 57, no. 4 (January 1, 2003): 19–27.  Available online via JSTOR.

Bozdogan, Sibel. "Orientalism and Architectural Culture.Social Scientist 14, no. 7 (1986): 46-58.  Available online via JSTOR.

Brown, Adrienne. “The Architecture of Racial Phenomena.” Log, no. 42 (January 1, 2018): 27–33.  Interlibrary loan request required.

Brown, Todd Levon. “Racialized Architectural Space: A Critical Understanding of Its Production, Perception and Evaluation.” Architecture_MPS: Architecture_Media_Politics_Society 15, no. 3 (April 1, 2019): 1–32.  Available online via ScienceOpen.

Curry, Milton, "Spatializing Blackness.CNN: Definitive Design, (8 December 2017).  Available online via CNN.

Davis, Charles L., II. “Blackness in Practice : Toward an Architectural Phenomenology of Blackness.” Log, no. 42 (January 1, 2018): 43–54.  Available online via the author's blog, or an interlibrary loan request is required.

Godlewski, Joseph. 2009. “The Tragicomic Televisual Ghetto: Popular Representations of Race and Space at Chicago’s Cabrini-Green.” Berkeley Planning Journal 22 (1): 114–25.  Available online via U.C.eScholarship.org.

Harris, Dianne. "Race, Space, and the Destabilization of Practice.Landscape Journal 26, no.1 (2007): 1-9. Accessed June 25, 2021. Available onlne via JSTOR.

Lipsitz, George. "The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape.Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 10-23. Available online via JSTOR.

Werner, Jeff. “Erskine, Frescati and Whiteness.” arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 18, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 294–97.  Available online via ProQuest.

Wilson, Mabel O. "Changing the Subject: Mabel O. Wilson on Race and Public Space." Artforum (Summer 2017).  Available online via Artforum.

Zaborovska, Magdalena J. “From Baldwin’s Paris to Benjamin’s: The Architectonics of Race and Sexuality in Giovanni’s Room.” Architectural Theory Review: Journal of the Department of Architecture, the University of Sydney 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 44–63.  Available online via Taylor & Francis.