Ecology of Absence
Index of Writing

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Articles & Essays

2006

Statement on Government Hill - Michael R. Allen (08/02/06)

The Founding of Granite City - Michael R. Allen (06/06/06)

Bad Precedent for Preservation Review - Michael R. Allen (04/07/06)

Left Placeless (At Loughborough and Grand) - Michael R. Allen (03/02/06)

A Dying Mall Gets to Live - Michael R. Allen (02/20/06)

2005

Preserving St. Aloysius Gonzaga - Michael R. Allen (12/16/05)

Taylor Avenue South of Manchester - Michael R. Allen (12/13/05)

Neglecting the Nord St. Louis Turnverein - Michael R. Allen (09/23/05)

Neighborhood Gardens and the Perils of Modernism - Michael R. Allen (08/17/05)

Downtown Famous-Barr Will Stay Open With More Visionary Name - Claire Nowak-Boyd (08/02/05)

The Destruction of the Urban Environment - Joe Frank (08/02/05)

The Lure of Annihilation - Colleen McKee (06/30/05)

East St. Louis, Illinois: "Hog Capital of the Nation" - Thomas Petraitis (05/09/05)

Personal Politics: Revitalization of the Kiel Opera House - Steve Sagarra (04/18/05)

The Spivey Building: Death of a Dream? - Thomas Petraitis (04/16/05)

Ghosts of the Screen - Michael R. Allen (04/08/05)

Parsons Field: Even Teenagers Needed a Place to Play - Thomas Petraitis (04/07/05)

A Short History of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital - Michael R. Allen (02/21/05)

Crumbling Roofs - Peter Downs (01/13/05)

The Silent Infirmary - Michael R. Allen (01/12/05)

2004

We Lose More than the Century Building - Michael R. Allen (12/01/04)

Unexpecting the Unexpected - Michael R. Allen & Claire Nowak-Boyd (12/01/04)

Terror on Ninth Street - Michael R. Allen (11/29/04)

Spatial Deconcentration - Yolanda Ward (09/29/04)

Nouveau Rousseau - Susan Turk (09/01/04)

Lead Poisoning in St. Louis - Daniel Berg (09/01/04)

Narrating Abandonment: Urban Archaeology as Political Praxis - Michael R. Allen (07/23/04)

Abandoned Buildings in St. Louis: Magic & Death - Michael R. Allen (06/01/04)

Toward Politics as a Signification Ritual, and Nothing Else? - Michael R. Allen (04/30/04)

Death and Life in East Saint Louis - Michael R. Allen (02/26/04)

How Do You Get to the River? - Michael R. Allen (02/01/04)

2003

Building on Community Gardens? - Michael R. Allen (11/03/03)

The Sweating Door; Or, Changes Making Themselves (09/15/03)

The Brownfield Film Moves On - Michael R. Allen (08/10/03)

The Harnessed Channel: How the River Des Peres Became A Sewer - Michael R. Allen (Spring 2003)

A Tour of the Forgotten - Colleen McKee (03/01/03)

2002

Beautiful Pipes: Reflections on Christina Shmigel's The Logic of Attachment - Michael R. Allen (12/23/02)

Toward a Definition of Urban Ecology - Michael R. Allen (12/01/02)

City is Not Everywhere - Michael R. Allen (Fall '02)

The Biggest Windfall in St. Louis History - Michael R. Allen (04/01/02)

2001

Perpetuating a spatial disconnect - Michael R. Allen (12/19/01)
 

Special Publications

inter-action saint louis (Zine precursor to Ecology of Absence)
 


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