Zachary Blair

My current project explores the imbrications of urban development, racial displacement, sexual normativization, and environmental degradation in Central Florida. Specifically, analyzing the interrelationship between historical trends of economic inequality, profit-making, and ecological modification with social movements, sexuality, and lived experiences after the Great Recession. Below is a juxtaposition of a western portion of historic Winter Park, known as the Dixie Terrac

I am currently writing a piece on Winter Park's disappearing tree canopy that is part of a larger project I have been working on for the past several months. Briefly, it explores the disappearing urban forest that has resulted from contemporary, neoliberal urban development. More to come, but I have been using Google Maps street view to confirm my suspicions, document what I can remember, and provide evidence of my larger argument, which is more expansive than just a conversa