Research group for the ethnographic inquiry into ecologies, infrastructures, bodies and knowledges
‘Seeing like a city’ – in Houston, TX

‘Seeing like a city’ – in Houston, TX

The master’s program student research project “Seeing like a city” with Jörg Niewoehner visited Rice University in Houston, TX, the week of March 19 to present and discuss their findings on neurourbanism, stress and urban planning to undergraduate students at Brown College. A lively discussion ensued about the welfare state, the legacies of spatial segregation and the role of the private sector in regulating urban inequality. A ‘toxic tour’ with an environmental justice NGO in Houston completed the visit to the city of many faces – a success all around. Thanks to Humboldt and Rice for making this possible.

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is Professor for Urban Anthropology and Human-Enviroment Relations at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is also deputy director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). Jörg is currently working on an ecological or relational anthropology in the fields of global environmental change and the life sciences.