CALL ON U.S. ADMINISTRATION TO END THEIR STRANGLEHOLD ON PUERTO RICO
It took over a week after Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico for the Trump Administration to waive the Jones Act - an Act which...
ROBERT FITCH MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES FROM PROGRESSIVE CITY
Robert (Bob) Fitch was a writer, researcher, teacher and organizer. He was born in 1939, and died tragically in 2011 from complications...
THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH AND URBAN RESISTANCE
Photo Credit: Diane Greene Lent, Climate March in Washington, D.C. Some 200,000 people marched in Washington, DC on April 29 to resist...
THE POVERTY OF PLANNING
All over American people are rising up in anger over the repeated murders of Black men and women by police, and the impunity most of them...
ZONE, AND ZONE OUT
On November 15, 2011, Michael Bloomberg’s urban planning commissioner, Amanda Burden, co-chaired the Zoning the City conference. It was...
“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...
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...
