PODCAST: THE ANTIRACIST MOVEMENT AND THE CLASS QUESTION, WITH BILL FLETCHER, JR.
The tension between race and class that continues to bedevil the American left flared up recently when a talk that prominent scholar...
ANNEXATION AS PRESENT REALITY: TAKING STOCK OF THE COLONIAL PLANNING REGIME IN PALESTINE'S JORDA
Photo of a makeshift structure in the Jordan Valley, 2015. In the summer of 2015, through a visit coordinated by Ma’an Development...
PODCAST: DECONSTRUCTING #METOO: JOANN WYPIJEWSKI ON SEX, POWER, AND THE POLITICS OF FEAR
On Episode Sixteen of Ear to the Pavement, the third in a series of books related to #MeToo, Allison talks with NYC-based journalist...
A WORLD FOR THE MANY: AN INTERVIEW WITH OLYMPIA CITY COUNCILMEMBER RENATA ROLLINS
Just over sixty miles south of Seattle sits the small city of Olympia, Washington. Tucked into the southeastern corner of Bud Inlet,...
BEYOND BRONXSPLOITATION: DECADE OF FIRE
Film directors Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran have the good sense to know that movements move forward by looking...
CHICAGO'S HISTORY OF ZONING AGAINST AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Housing in Uptown Chicago, August 1974 (Source: U.S. National Archives) On May 20th, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced an ordinance...
REVIEW OF: "A PEOPLE'S ATLAS OF DETROIT" BY LINDA CAMPBELL, ANDREW NEWMAN, SARA SAFRAN
In popular discourse, the city of Detroit’s reputation is one of lawless frontier, destituteness and above all, exceptionalism. Countless...
DISPOSSESSED AND DISPENSABLE – A VISUAL REFLECTION ON COVID-19 AND THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Basement: family of eight squashed in a one-bedroom basement flat in Silwan with hardly any fresh air after their home was demolished...
A SLOW BURN: A REVIEW OF THE HOTTEST AUGUST
In 1960, the French ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin roamed the streets of Paris, asking citizens “How do...
FRANCES GOLDIN, PRESENTE!
Source: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation One of the most enduring lessons I learned about planning was from an...