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We are the University of Chicago’s premier Environmental and Urban Studies magazine.

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Expositions launched in 2021 to publish environmental and urban studies journalism. We center writing and photography that investigates the heart of our diverse cities and ecosystems. We love the probing, the voicey, the innovative, and the sharply drawn.

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The Oculus: Between the Realms

The Oculus: Between the Realms

I was sixteen when I first saw the Oculus. It had opened to the public months before in March of 2016, but I hadn’t heard about it. At sixteen I had the single-mindedness of the briefcased men I commuted into Manhattan with each day. I took one of two LIRR trains,...

Prouvé’s Moving Houses

Prouvé’s Moving Houses

In the late 1940s, French designer Jean Prouvé created a prototype for a steel and aluminum prefabricated house to be sent in pieces to the French colonies in what is now Niger and Congo. Prouvé’s architecture contemporaries lauded the houses as marvels of modern...

Rising Tides in Iowa

Rising Tides in Iowa

I bought my first car in June 2019. It was a used, steel grey Honda Civic that my older brother, Alan, told me I’d definitely paid two thousand dollars too much for. I needed it because I was going to live in Des Moines, Iowa, while I interned for ABC covering the...