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THE ‘FIGHT FOR $15’ IN MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW KIND OF...
Fight for $15 Protest in Montréal, May 1, 2018. Photo by Mostafa Henaway. Across cities in North America and here in Montréal, Québec, a new type of labour movement has begun to emerge. That movement...
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REVIEW OF “CITY POEMS & AMERICAN URBAN CRISIS: 1945 TO THE PRESENT" BY NATE...
Nate Mickelson’s book “City Poems & American Urban Crisis” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) is based on the author’s PhD dissertation at the City University of New York. It is a refreshing text which...
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WHAT ARE WIMBYs? WHO DO THEY REPRESENT AND WHY ARE THEY IN THE CROSSHAIRS?
A homeless encampment in Los Angeles' Financial District Progress by Laurie Avocado is licensed under CC BY 2.0WIMBY stands for “Wall Street in My Backyard.” In Los Angeles, journalist Jill Stewart and...
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'CREATIVE PLACEMAKING' IN SAN FRANCISCO AND SEATTLE: DEMOCRATIC AND/OR...
Westlake park (pictured) continues to be used as a democratic space even with other activation strategies. Photo by Vinita GoyalCreative Placemaking as a panacea for economic revival and neighborhood...
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DECOLONIAL PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA
An intersection in Kenora, Ontario Canada. From the documentary Colonization Road directed by Michelle St. JohnDecolonizing planning requires that we take a long look at how planning’s project of...
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PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE U.S. AND BRAZIL: 9 REFLECTIONS AND LESSONS FROM THE...
In January, tens of thousands of teachers mobilized across the city of Los Angeles for a six-day striketo protest low wages and a lack of support for students in public schools across the district....
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PLACE & PRIVILEGE: TELLING STORIES ABOUT PLACES THAT AREN'T YOURS
Photo edited by Yumna BhattiPlanning, Place & EntitlementAs a city planner, I am mindful about how I speak about places, especially those I do not have lived experience with. It is a tricky...
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REGULA MODLICH: TORONTO'S RADICAL FEMINIST PLANNER (1939-2018)
What are you two healthy young women doing with crayons here? You can earn so much more money in one of the rooms I can offer you. - a local pimp in Toronto’s Kensington Market, 1967Regula Modlich,...
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JUST HOUSING AS AN INTERSECTIONAL STRUGGLE
This article is a section of a report produced by the Right to the City Alliance entitled "Communities over Commodities: People-Driven Alternatives to an Unjust Housing System”. It has been reprinted...
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INTRODUCING THE INDIGENOUS PLANNING COLLECTIVE
As Maori planning scholar and practitioner Hirini Magunga puts it, “Indigenous planning has always existed. Indigenous communities predate colonialism and were planned according to their own traditions...
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HOW PLANNING IMPACTS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IN THE RESURGENT CITY
A number of presentations at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 59th Annual Conference last year in Buffalo, New York, placed attention on urban resurgence as a process that is often...
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WHATEVER THE PROBLEM, THE SOLUTION IS LUXURY DEVELOPMENT: NEW YORK CITY'S...
Photo by Field ConditionNew York boosters sometimes call their city “the real estate capital of the world.” By 2016 its buildings and land were worth over $1 trillion, representing a hike of more than...
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PLANNED AFFORDABILITY: INCLUSIONARY HOUSING IN LONDON
“A BRAND NEW LUXURY DEVELOPMENT” - The Postmark construction site, Mount Pleasant, London. Google Street View (Image capture: Feb 2018)Like most megacities, London faces a persistent housing crisis. In...
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REVIEW OF "PLACEMAKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH: PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES FOR...
Derr, V., Chawla, L., & Mintzer, M. (2018). Placemaking with children and youth: Participatory practices for planning sustainable communities. New York: New Village Press.416 pagesISBN:...
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THE URGENCY AND UNCERTAINTY OF "PROGRESSIVE PLANNING" TODAY
Samuel Stein giving the introductory keynote for 2019 PN conference in New York City. Photo by Arielle Lawson.Note: The following article was presented by the author as the introductory keynote lecture...
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HOUSING, RUBBISH, WALLS AND FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE IN EAST JERUSALEM
’Kufur Aqab: When developers’ greed meets political agendas,’ high-rise housing blocks built in close proximity, with little to no regard for building regulations, October 2017. © Manal MassalhaSubject...
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MONTREAL'S BOTTOM-UP SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
Residents of St-Henri, Montreal display a collective art project at a protest-assembly in front of the borough's city hall to demand public ownership of the derelict Canada Malting factory. The text...
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REVIEW OF SAMUEL STEIN'S "CAPITAL CITY: GENTRIFICATION AND THE REAL ESTATE...
When I was studying to become an urban planner, I could never figure out how to describe the professional degree to my grandmother. This was not an inter-generational communication failure. Having...
View ArticleSHOWCASE: LEFT HAND ROTATION
This week Progressive City is showcasing the work of Spanish film collective Left Hand Rotation, whose next release will be a documentary on social inequality and housing in Lisbon made in...
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BODY MAP STORYTELLING: VISCERAL DATA FOR CITY PLANNING
Urban Planners usually rely on traditional technocratic methods for collecting data with which they develop plans for housing, transportation, economic and community development. These methods include...
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HOW I MADE A PROGRESSIVE PLANNING PODCAST
The following is an excerpt from Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism, an upcoming publication from Planner's Network and Black Rose Books that can be ordered via the...
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'RESISTING DISPLACEMENT AND DISPOSSESSION' - TWO TALKS FROM PLANNERS...
The following are transcripts of two talks that were given on June 21st, 2019 as part of a plenary panel at Planners Network's conference Resisting Displacement and Dispossession. It featured speakers...
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McHARG'S LEGACY AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: A REVIEW OF DESIGN WITH NATURE NOW
Design with Nature Now (edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming) is a timely tribute to Ian McHarg’s seminal book, Design with Nature. The climate crisis is at...
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Norman Krumholz (1927-1919): Working for Equity Inside Government
In this posting, we have two obituaries for Norman Krumholz, who was a ong-time Planners Network member. This first is by Tom Angotti and the second is by Pierre Clavel.Norman Krumholz (1927-1919):...
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The Fallacy of “Industry City, Our Way”
City Councilmember Menchaca’s September 16, 2019 Public Meeting on Industry CityPhoto by Tarry HumSunset Park, Brooklyn is a vibrant racially diverse and majority immigrant working-class neighborhood....
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TRANSFORMATIVE PLANNING PANEL
This panel discussion was held in Toronto on November 29, 2019 to launch the new Planner’s Network book Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism, edited by Tom Angotti and...
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PODCAST: DECONSTRUCTING #METOO: YASMIN NAIR ON "SHE SAID"
In Episode Twelve, the first in a series about books related to #MeToo, we talk with Chicago-based writer, academic, and activist Yasmin Nair about She Said, the 2019 book by New York Times reporters...
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USING THE NIMBY LABEL TO DISCREDIT THE HOUSING JUSTICE MOVEMENT
"New Tower Development" by Matt Brown is licensed under CC BY 2.0As a planning consultant, I was intrigued when my colleagues labeled residents who opposed a development project as “NIMBYs”. Sometimes...
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PODCAST: SNAKE EMOJIS, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THE STATE OF THE SANDERS CAMPAIGN,...
In Episode Thirteen of Ear to the Pavement, Allison talks with author and labor activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. about the Bernie Sanders campaign’s victories and mistakes, why Sanders failed to win over...
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REVIEW OF "DEFENDING LATINA/O COMMUNITIES: THE XENOPHOBIC ERA OF TRUMP AND...
Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond is a compilation of 44 short essays written by Alvaro Huerta from 2008 to 2019, except for 2 essays written by Juan...
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'ADDING MARCUSE' TO EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES: COMBATING DISPLACEMENT
The following essay by Julie Mah and Emma Clayton Jones is the last in a trilogy derived from presentations at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 59th Annual Conference in Buffalo, New...
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'ADDING MARCUSE' TO EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES: COMBATTING INDIRECT...
Figure 1: Khalil, a 25 year-old South Parkdale resident, locates his daily social experiences as part of a cognitive mapping exercise. Photo credit: Emma Clayton Jones.On November 26, Toronto’s South...
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PODCAST: REPURPOSING THE WEBS OF INFECTION AS WEBS OF CONNECTION, WITH MINDY...
On Episode Fourteen of Ear to the Pavement, Allison talks with professor and author Mindy Thompson Fullilove about how her past work on public health crises such as 9/11and the AIDS epidemic is...
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MISSING MICHAEL SORKIN
Michael Sorkin, Tom Angotti and Ho Chi Minh (left to right) in Sorkin’s studio“Comrade Urbanists!”Every semester during the years I taught at Hunter College, I was greeted by this message from Michael...
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REVIEW OF: "THE HELSINKI EFFECT: PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES TO THE GUGGENHEIM MODEL...
The Guggenheim Effect is an urbanist fairy tale about how a starchitect-designed museum transformed a sleepy backwater into a celebrated global destination. In this story, architect Frank Gehry’s...
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PROGRESSIVE CITY EDITORIAL BOARD OPINION: COVID-19 IS THE PANDEMIC, BUT...
FENCE PAINT, 2017 layered construction paper, Madhuri Shukla. Donate to Detention Watch Network.Urban planners and the other professions that have helped shape the growth and development of cities bear...
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BOOK REVIEW OF EVERYDAY EQUALITIES: MAKING MULTICULTURES IN SETTLER COLONIAL...
Fincher, R., Iveson, K., Leitner, H., & Preston, V. (2019). Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities. U of Minnesota Press.264 Pages ISBN: 978-0-8166-9464-8 $27...
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VIEWS OF THE NAKED CITY: PICTURES FROM THE DAILY ROUND IN A CITY OF EMPTYING...
In the middle of March, I started to post short photo essays on my social media feed. These snapshots were inspired by daily walks and bicycle excursions in Toronto as well as news from around the...
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PODCAST: DECONSTRUCTING #METOO: YASMIN NAIR ON CATCH AND KILL
In episode thirteen of Ear to the Pavement, the second in a series about books related to #MeToo, Allison talks again with Chicago-based writer, academic, and activistYasmin NairaboutCatch and Kill,...
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FRANCES GOLDIN, PRESENTE!
Source: Greenwich Village Society for Historic PreservationOne of the most enduring lessons I learned about planning was from an activist in New York City’s Lower East Side, Frances Goldin. She led the...
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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 you live?” and “Are you happy?” Their experiment, which became the...
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DISPOSSESSED AND DISPENSABLE – A VISUAL REFLECTION ON COVID-19 AND THE SOCIAL...
Basement: family of eight squashed in a one-bedroom basement flat in Silwan with hardly any fresh air after their home was demolished three times. October 2017. © Manal Massalha. In these uncertain,...
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REVIEW OF: "A PEOPLE'S ATLAS OF DETROIT" BY LINDA CAMPBELL, ANDREW NEWMAN,...
In popular discourse, the city of Detroit’s reputation is one of lawless frontier, destituteness and above all, exceptionalism. Countless news stories have painted Detroit as a place of poverty,...
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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 that would legalize various forms of accessory dwelling unit...
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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 backwards. That’s perhaps why their documentary Decade of Fire, which...
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A WORLD FOR THE MANY: AN INTERVIEW WITH OLYMPIA CITY COUNCILMEMBER RENATA...
Just over sixty miles south of Seattle sits the small city of Olympia, Washington. Tucked into the southeastern corner of Bud Inlet, Olympia—the state’s capital—is well known for being a focal point in...
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PODCAST: DECONSTRUCTING #METOO: JOANN WYPIJEWSKI ON SEX, POWER, AND THE...
On Episode Sixteen of Ear to the Pavement, the third in a series of books related to #MeToo, Allison talks with NYC-based journalist JoAnn Wypijewski about her recent book, What We Don’t Talk About...
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ANNEXATION AS PRESENT REALITY: TAKING STOCK OF THE COLONIAL PLANNING REGIME...
Photo of a makeshift structure in the Jordan Valley, 2015.In the summer of 2015, through a visit coordinated by Ma’an Development Center¹, I had the opportunity to meet with Bedouin herders and farmers...
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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 Adolph Reed was slated to give to the New York City chapter of DSA...
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PLANNING NOT POLICING: A CALL BY PLANNERS NETWORK AND PROGRESSIVE CITY
Photo by Matias Garabedian licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0Urban planners and all professionals responsible for planning and designing public spaces must pay greater attention to the many ways that streets,...
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