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Nowhere But Up
In the wake of the 1964 Harlem riots, June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s plan to redesign the neighborhood suggested new possibilities for urban life.
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Nikil Saval
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New York Review of Books
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June 8, 2024
Buckminster Fuller’s Hall of Mirrors
Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography assesses the complicated legacy of an architect better known for his image than his work.
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Daniel Luis Martinez
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The Nation
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February 1, 2023
Space-Age Magus
From beginning to end, experts saw through Buckminster Fuller’s ideas and theories. Why did so many people come under his spell?
by
James Gleick
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New York Review of Books
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November 3, 2022
Buckminster Fuller’s Greatest Invention
His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image.
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Rebecca Onion
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The New Republic
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August 19, 2022
How a Harlem Skyrise Got Hijacked—and Forgotten
The fate of June Jordan’s visionary reimagining of Harlem shows that when it comes to Utopias, the key question is always: “Whose?”
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Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
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The Nation
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July 10, 2021
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A Tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.
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Kathryn Ostrofsky
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September 7, 2022
Stewart Brand’s Dubious Futurism
What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?
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Malcolm Harris
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The Nation
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June 13, 2022
The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota
The Experimental City revisits the plan for a futuristic Minnesota city that would solve urban problems.
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Allison C. Meier
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Hyperallergic
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January 2, 2018