Place, Emotion, and Environmental Justice in Harlem: June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller's 1965 "Architextual" Collaboration.

HARLEM (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State)

JORDAN, June, 1936-2002; FULLER, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

The article discusses the relationship between environmental and social justice based on the urban-design project, called Skyrise for Harlem, by social justice activist June Jordan and engineer R. Buckminster Fuller in Harlem, New York City. It cites the proposal of Jordan and Fuller for the damaged ecosocial fabric of Harlem in 1965, which include the construction of towers and an open space. It also looks into the role and individual work of Jordan and Fuller in the redesign project, which was considered as an interrogation of design and affect as an intervention into environmental justice studies.