tess mccann

maps 4ever. urban designer & historian at @publica_office 📓 prev @fieldoperations @mitdusp @pentagram @yale_history 📝 occasional musings @nyreviewofarch

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🙌 thank you, Eric!!!

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never not thinking about this former marshland! thank you @en_dash for the fantastic edit and the opportunity to keep writing about this space and its history

[Leventhal Map & Education Center at the BPL @bplmaps]

In this new exhibition essay, @tessdmccann details a century-long history of toxic land use along the urban margins, and poses the question: How inextricable is land use from the land itself? https://t.co/so1esVuisZ

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"Many areas were dredged or filled, as if the uneasiness of a marsh—neither land nor water, therefore 'unproductive'—had to be resolved one way or the other." Loved this piece in @PlacesJournal https://t.co/DvsHR5x4ox

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the coolest thing about me is and has always been that @adam_tooze advised my undergrad thesis. 7 years later I still think about how much fun the whole project was and talk about it ad nauseam. I also can confirm he can explain everything!!!

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

How the impeccably credentialed, improbably charming economic historian @adam_tooze supplanted the dirtbag left. @mollyhfischer reports https://t.co/PHzLJvlPyF

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extra extra

[New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch]

In like a lion. Skyline 6-0, edited by @tessdmccann, with dispatches from Houston, Los Angeles, Cambridge, Ithaca, and even Brooklyn.

https://t.co/7tOfS70trS

[J. G. Moore @jgmoore]

Care, Where?
https://t.co/qdGMKrl3Jw via @UrbanOmnibus

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proud daughter moment!!! 🤩

[AIA | The American Institute of Architects @AIANational]

Congratulations to Deborah Berke, FAIA, recipient of the 2022 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.

More here. → https://t.co/GNeow92P4S

#AIAAwards

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my endless thanks as ever to @en_dash for aiding and abetting my obsession w old maps of east boston

[Leventhal Map & Education Center at the BPL @bplmaps]

East Boston is one of the city’s densest and most diverse neighborhoods. 150 years ago, however, it was still mostly flats.

In this rich interactive, @tessdmccann shares her @MITdusp research on how speculators “improved” environmentally marginal land.

https://t.co/wl2W2LD8lv

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never not trying to talk about “maintenance and care.” thank you to this week’s correspondents!

[New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch]

S K Y L I N E 43 is out today! Editor @tessdmccann asks "who cares?" while @px_alvarez @sofiagulaid @muellergamez and @gideonfinkshap1 round up the week's events

https://t.co/X8eiOpa2ud

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@_p_antonio Zeph Colombatto is amazing and lovely (https://t.co/9n6pr32ZhA)

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p.s. the map I drew on top of is the 1852 map of Boston Harbor by Ellis S. Chesbrough—a classic! and also the subject of an awesome interactive piece on the @bplmaps blog: https://t.co/ZWbqlw9hyo

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loved every minute working on this (can’t always be said of academic projects!). it was also an excellent excuse to spend hours at @bplmaps and @HarvardMapColl & to hang w @robskyhuntley and @LandingStudio & to reread all my favorite scholars on @PlacesJournal . very grateful ✨

[MIT Urban Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social @MITdusp]

Could there be a more holistic approach to the development paradigm - embracing the logic of repair for site design, discourse, & development? In her thesis, #dusp alumna @tessdmccann (MCP '21) explores Suffolk Downs as a case study for a new model. More- https://t.co/ihvhVIdIEG

[GQ Magazine @GQMagazine]

Anthony Veasna So, who died before the release of his first collection, Afterparties, was “the Cambodian literary Selena” https://t.co/4SJo7SQvQd

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@en_dash It’s “Banana Cultures” in map form!

[Emma GZ R 📍🗺️✨ @EmmaGZRoberts]

Congrats to all my incredible @MITdusp classmates graduating today. We did 3/4 of our master's degrees in a pandemic. We did that. https://t.co/eNdJ6ne6s6

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@robskyhuntley @en_dash @bplmaps can’t wait to see where the project goes next!

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Had an insanely good time working with @bplmaps on a data literacy curriculum this semester. talking to strangers about maps is my happy place! endless thanks to an incredible team incl fearless leader @en_dash and MIT support system @kanarinka + @robskyhuntley

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@_p_antonio yes! also: “Maintenance and Care” by @shannonmattern should be required reading for planning and arch students.

[Anjali Singhvi @singhvianjali]

For months, my colleagues and I have been immersed in the world of archival maps, photographs, city directories, books, newspapers, survivor accts. and census data to recreate what was lost 100 years ago in Greenwood, also known as the “Black Wall Street”. https://t.co/9WHdLN5CtF

[tess mccann @tessdmccann]

For my last paper at MIT I’m writing what I hope will be a scathing indictment of the commoditization of spatial information esp as a tool of domination/extraction, but knowing me it’ll read more like a meditation/reflection on maps. Must work on my “scathing indictment” voice!