Urbanism
Local Chronic Financial Illness
Zoraima Diaz-Pineda discusses the relationship between poverty and policy in Brownsville.
Brownsville West Rail Corridor Study: Designing Public Space in the 21st Century
Edna Ledesma advocates for participatory design in the context of a rail-to-trail conversion.
Organizing for Infrastructure
Martha Sanchez offers insight into community organizing around infrastructure needs.
Brownsville Undercurrents
Lizzie MacWillie, Kelsey Menzel, Jesse Miller, and Josué Ramirez introduce the Rio Grande Valley’s vibrant communities and contested histories.
Racist Symbols in Public Space
Chloe Dotson reflects on what is and isn’t memorialized in the Rio Grande Valley.
Environmental Cartography: Confronting Memorials, Monuments, and the Past
Elizabeth Kaney and Kerri Arsenault reimagine Rumford’s tourist map to confront its hidden histories of resource extraction, pollution, and industrial development.
Present Ghosts: River Valley
In this graphic series, artist Nina Elder reinterprets archival photographs of the River Valley to look past its industrial development.
Two Rumfords
Media artists Steve Norton & N.B.Aldrich capture the relationship of the River Valley’s infrastructure and environment.
The River Valley’s Other Working Landscape
In a series of watercolors, artist Tom Leytham documents the industrial ruins of this working-class community.
Mill Supply: Making Paper and Maintaining the Technological Sublime
Aaron Cayer revisits the architectural history of the paper mill and the ways in which the mill building has long dominated and organized the River Valley.