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Ben Barsotti Scott

I’m a writer and landscape architect based in New York City. I’m also a student of historical geography, currently researching a series of civilian-led blockades of US Navy terminals in the final years of the US war in Vietnam.

Occasionally, I teach undergraduate seminars on my areas of interest: see the syllabus for my 2022 course on contemporary architectural theory here and the syllabus for my 2025 course on critical cartography here. Read testimonials from some of my recent students here.

Even more occasionally, I write for architecture and geography publications like the the New York Review of Architecture, Critical Planning Journal, and Journal of Landscape Architecture.

You can see my full CV here and you can contact me here.

Ben Barsotti Scott
urban historical geographer and independent curator in New York, NY.

See some of my recent work below. You can contact me here.
RESEARCH
People’s blockades against the ‘Automated Air War’
2024︎︎︎present
My current research focuses on the 1972 People’s Blockade of Arms to Indochina, a national campaign of civilian-led occupations of domestic naval ports, munitions plants, and military rail lines protesting the United States’ air wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

If you were involved in a blockade and are interested in telling me about your experiences, or if you were active military on a ship, train, or other site that was blockaded by civilians around 1971-2, please email me here.


San Bernardino County Sun New York Times, April 24, 1972. WIN Magazine, August 1972.




Unless otherwise noted, all above images are sourced from the 1972 document “Why the People’s Blockade?” published by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).