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...
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH “GOOD” PLANNING?
By Peter Marcuse I. Good Planning in the Mainstream Planning, urban design, and development are in the public mind today. The...
RIO'S REAL VS. UNMET OLYMPIC LEGACIES: WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CITIES
The heavily corporate city Rio has attempted to create, resulting in exacerbated urban problems of spatial, economic and social...
IS THERE A PLACE IN THE PROGRESSIVE CITY FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY?
Planners seeking to create progressive cities must recognize that the increasingly visible lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer...
SKIN THE CITY
I won’t call it graffiti, this practice of making memory by inscribing place onto itself. In January 2013, the organization I run, 596...
PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION BY DESIGN: DIVERSIFYING THE PLANNING PROFESSION
In Spring of 2015, the New York City Council voted to approve the East New York rezoning, but not without a bitter battle in the...