Garnette Cadogan

Fellow

Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism at MIT

Garnette Cadogan is an essayist whose research explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism. Named by the literary magazine Freeman’s as one of 29 writers from around the world who “represent the future of new writing” in 2017, he writes about culture and the arts for various publications.

Cadogan is the Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism at MIT. He was a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar (2017-2018) at DUSP, and is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. The editor-at-large of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), he is at work on a book on walking.

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, University of California Press, 2016.

“In the West, Carolyn Drake Seeks New Expressions of American Identity.” Aperture Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020.

“Walking While Black.” Literary Hub, 14 July 2016.

“Vision & Justice: Radcliffe Roye.” Aperture Magazine, June 2016.

“The Pedestrian.” The War on Cars, 29 Mar. 2022.

Siddiqi, Anooradha Iyer, Can Bilsel, Ana Miljački, and Garnette Cadogan, with Javairia Shahid. “Caregiving as Method.” gta papers 7, gta Verlag, 2022, pp. 83-124.

“How To Walk Around The World Without Leaving New York.” BuzzFeed News.