By Ishita Chatterjee and Minati Dash The following piece is part of Progressive City’s “Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer” series, which asks authors to examine the role of academic institutions in (re)shaping cities and how planning practitioners, activists, educators, students, or other actors can contest their harmful impacts both from … [Read more...] about Education as Real Estate: The Commodification of Higher Learning and Peri-Urban Transformation in Sonipat, India
Planning Against Hostile Campus Designs: Spatial Strategies and Persuasive Storytelling About the Future
By Chris GiamarinoThe following piece is part of Progressive City’s “Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer” series, which asks authors to examine the role of academic institutions in (re)shaping cities and how planning practitioners, activists, educators, students, or other actors can contest their harmful impacts both from within and outside these … [Read more...] about Planning Against Hostile Campus Designs: Spatial Strategies and Persuasive Storytelling About the Future
From West Harlem to Manhattanville: Columbia University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer
By Stefan Chavez-NorgaardThe following piece is part of Progressive City's "Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer" series, which asks authors to examine the role of academic institutions in (re)shaping cities and how planning practitioners, activists, educators, students, or other actors can contest their harmful impacts both from within and outside … [Read more...] about From West Harlem to Manhattanville: Columbia University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer
Tracking the Trackers: ICE Detention Counter-Mapping Project
By AJ Kim How do planners move beyond bystanding? What does it mean to do rapid response research? We are witness in these times to the ways in which localities, particularly cities, can either contest or comply with unjust laws and policies. How can we as planners resist? What does compliance compromise? As a field with a clear code of ethics, these are always critical … [Read more...] about Tracking the Trackers: ICE Detention Counter-Mapping Project
Call for Submissions: Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer
Universities play a critical and often contradictory role in planning. They not only bestow accreditation and confer degrees, but also shape the discourses and practices that define the field. These in turn influence the design, use, and accessibility of our cities. Although university planning programs make claims of educating practitioners who will work towards more … [Read more...] about Call for Submissions: Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer