

“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...

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
VICTORY….FOR NOW After eight months, starting with a few hundred young Native Americans and swelling to up to 15,000 people in the...


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...