Jana studies the effects that large socio-economic forces have on the city and its architecture. She is especially interested in how technology and technical thinking mediate the encounters between people and places. Through analyzing both ordinary and critical spatial practices, Jana seeks to recover the latent and as of yet invisible knowledges that are transmitted through the bodies and buildings of urban environments. In her forthcoming book, Jana deploys these methodologies to examine the agonism structuring Fordism and urbanization in early twentieth-century Detroit. For her latest research project, Jana turns to New York City to address the knowledge transfer occurring between visionary architects and radical social activists in the efforts to create cooperative housing.