IN RESPONSE TO PROGRESSIVE CITY: PLACEMAKING WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTER
FENCE PAINT, 2017 layered construction paper, Madhuri Shukla This cutout explores accessibility, the manifestation of race and ethnicity...
PLACEMAKING WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTER
What would placemaking look like when Black lives matter?[i] Washington D.C.’s director of planning illustrated the racial limits of DIY...
THE POVERTY OF PLANNING
All over American people are rising up in anger over the repeated murders of Black men and women by police, and the impunity most of them...
BOOK REVIEW OF REFINERY TOWN: BIG OIL, BIG MONEY, AND THE REMAKING OF AN AMERICAN CITY BY STEVE EARL
This is the story of Richmond, CA, a city of 107,000 just north of Berkeley and Oakland – for decades under the thumb of Chevron’s large...
TRUMP TRIGGERS MIXED “SANCTUARY CITY” WAVE IN CANADA
Grassroots migrant justice groups organizing in response This article originally appeared on riverleft.org and rabble.ca. The racist and...
ZONE, AND ZONE OUT
On November 15, 2011, Michael Bloomberg’s urban planning commissioner, Amanda Burden, co-chaired the Zoning the City conference. It was...
“NEGRO REMOVAL” REVISITED: URBAN PLANNING AND THE NEW JIM CROW IN KANSAS CITY
Academic men [sic] are inclined to ascribe an importance to knowledge all out of proportion to its actual role in human conduct. This is...
THE DRUG WAR, PRISONS, AND POLICE KILLINGS OF BLACK MEN
Photo Credit: JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY Early on New Year's Day 2009, a transit officer shot and killed Oscar Grant at BART's Fruitvale...
BLACK LIVES DON'T MATTER IN APA'S COLORBLIND PLANNING: APA REJECTED LEGISLATIVE POLICY GUIDE
The American Planning Association (APA) views itself as a membership organization that offers opportunity for education and advocacy on...
IS “JUSTICE ARCHITECTURE” JUST? FROM THE FERGUSON POLICE STATION TO THE “JUSTICE CENTER” TO HUMAN RI
Shortly before protest erupted in Ferguson, Missouri over the death of Michael Brown at the hands of police office Darren Wilson, the...