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Amelia Smith

Amelia Smith

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Apr 11 · 3 min read

Issue Two, Fall 2018

This year’s Campus Pride Index gave IWU 4 out of 5 stars, with highest marks for LGBTQ+ Support and Institutional Commitment (4.5 / 5) and LGBTQ+ Housing and Residential Life (5 / 5).

As noted by College Choice, who ranked IWU 38th among best LGBTQ+ friendly…

Amelia Smith
Amelia Smith in avong
Nov 25, 2018 · 3 min read

Signal V

In the articles we read about WeWork, there was mention of the use of algorithms in the building process. This reminded me of some playful…

Amelia Smith
Amelia Smith in avong
Nov 18, 2018 · 2 min read

Signal IV

My signal this week is the architect Bruno Taut, who worked in Weimar Germany and imagined Utopian cities in the Alpine skyline. This series…

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Amelia Smith in avong
Nov 11, 2018 · 2 min read

Signal III

My signal for this week is Franz Kafka, a writer most of us are probably familiar with from being forced to read The Metamorphosis in high…

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Amelia Smith
Amelia Smith in avong
Nov 4, 2018 · 2 min read

Signal II

My Signal for this week is an excerpt from James C. Scott’s book Seeing like a State about the urban designer and activist Jane Jacobs (emphasis mine). It is related to our conversation about the failure of implementing top-down city planning, in which experts construct a city that they believe is optimal for…

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