WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE CHANGE: THINK GLOBALLY, AND THEN ACT LOCALLY.
Much of the heavy lifting to mitigate and adapt to climate change – including in Los Angeles, where I live – is the responsibility of local
SPECIAL REPRINT ISSUE: PRISONS, POLICING AND PLANNING
While there has been a long history of the policing and criminalization of marginalized populations – including minorities and immigrants...
IMMIGRATION POLICY AND PLANNING IN THE ERA OF MASS INCARCERATION
On November 20, 2014 after years of overwhelming pressure from the immigrant rights movement and undocumented communities, President...
PRISONS, POLICING AND PLANNING: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS VISIBLE
In August 2014 attention turned towards Ferguson, Missouri as a Black teen was shot and killed by a police officer. This event, along...
STANDING ROCK: VICTORY CELEBRATED, STRUGGLE TO CONTINUE
Photo Courtesy of Huffington Post VICTORY….FOR NOW After eight months, starting with a few hundred young Native Americans and swelling to...
VISION ZERO: RACISM, POLICING, AND RETHINKING SAFETY
Over the past two years, New York City has erupted in protest over the deaths of unarmed Black people at the hands of the police. In...
GOOD PLANNING, PROGRESSIVE PLANNING AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION: REFLECTING ON PETER MARCUSE
By Aseem Inam As always, Peter Marcuse offers the kind of thought-provoking clarity we need to question the fundamental nature of...
TRUMP: WHAT CAN PROGRESSIVE PLANNERS DO?
Note: These are hard times and we are all trying to regain our bearings after the election. This was one of the most difficult things...
BOOK REVIEW OF FROM BOOM TO BUBBLE: HOW FINANCE BUILT THE NEW CHICAGO
Since at least the 1980s, progressive planners, activists, and neighborhood residents have understood that property development – often...
“GOOD PLANNING” IS BAD PLANNING, AND “PROGRESSIVE” IS NOT ENOUGH: A RESPONSE TO PETER MARCUSE
By Samuel Stein In his inaugural article on this website, “What’s the Matter with ‘Good’ Planning?”, Peter Marcuse has once again...