Community Mobilization against Eviction in 1970s San Francisco & the contribution of Chester Hartman
By Niccolo Caldararo Background As a young student in 1966, I was struck by the efforts of the City of San Francisco to destroy the...
VIDEO: Community Gardens and the Conquest of Land
Josh is a practicing urban planner in the Mid Atlantic. For the past nine years, Josh has served as a land use and transportation planner...
REVIEW: Justice at Work – the Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities
Justice at Work: The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities By Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock University of Minnesota...
How to Build a Gayborhood
Josh is a practicing urban planner in the Mid Atlantic. For the past nine years, Josh has served as a land use and transportation planner...
A Mensch With a Mission: Chester Hartman (1936-2023)
By Peter Dreier In 1960, Chester Hartman, then a graduate student in city planning at Harvard, received a notice from his draft board...
The Politics and Economy of Mixed-Use Planning
By Ian Van der Merwe The consensus of planners is in, mixed-use is the name of the game! Every apartment building must have space for...
Mel King’s life, and life lessons for planners
By Chris Tilly Mel King, the preeminent Boston Black community leader of his generation, passed away in late March 2023 at the age of 94....
The Mel King Universe, From a Disciple
By Sean Robin There is a Mel King Universe (Multiverse, Cosmos…) that you enter when you go to one of his meetings or Sunday brunches. ...
Mel King, my friend, my teacher, my collaborator
By Marie Kennedy My practice as a teacher and practitioner of what I term transformative community planning owes a great deal to Mel...
VIDEO: How landlords work together to keep rents high
Josh is a practicing urban planner in the Mid Atlantic. For the past nine years, Josh has served as a land use and transportation planner...
