No Place Like Home Central Park

• In Event: Space & Race: Critical Regionalism, Big Tech Racism & Contested Highways

Abstract

Critical Regionalism is the work of giving voice to spaces and places that have been defined with a singular point of reference, in disregard of people/culture. It works to challenge boundaries, limitations, and borders serving to confine and suppress culture and people (Powell, 2007). New York City’s Central Park constitutes this place and space where people and culture has been discarded. This paper seeks to perform the work of reclaiming those people, cultures, and spaces that have been omitted and placed in hegemonic boundaries and borders. Through the work of Douglas Reichert Powell of theory on Critical regionalism. The goal is to reestablish agency of the culture and/or people that have been deconstructed. The disrupting of the modern and the post-modern, to the unknown space that is rich in representation and (re)memory making of place, and space of nations.

Author

• Solomon Cochren, University of Memphis