By Carla Maria Kayanan University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation DistrictLaura Wolf-PowersUniversity of Pennsylvania Press204 Pages, Hardcover $39.95 USDWhen I was a doctoral student studying innovation districts, Professor Robert Fishman, my dissertation supervisor and internationally recognized expert in urban history, pointedly asked: … [Read more...] about Review of University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
REVIEW: Community Matters
Review by Tom Angotti Community MattersEdited by John Emmeus Davis Madison, WI, Terra Nostra Press, 2022. 250 pp, $7.50 US Community land trusts (CLTs) have emerged in many parts of the Americas and Europe as a means for securing community control of land and insuring that it is used to meet the long-term needs of communities, particularly the many whose needs are … [Read more...] about REVIEW: Community Matters
Pandemic Responses and Mutual Aid Are Building Climate Resilience and Justice
Pandemic Responses and Mutual Aid Are Building Climate Resilience and Justice: Learning from Community Responses in the Boston Area By Penn Loh and Neenah Estrella-Luna The following piece is part of Progressive City's Planning for Environmental Justice series. Contributions reflect on this theme through a variety of lenses, such as environmental justice, combatting green … [Read more...] about Pandemic Responses and Mutual Aid Are Building Climate Resilience and Justice
Mobility Efforts in Mexico City
By Jenn Hendricks The following piece is part of Progressive City's Planning for Environmental Justice series. Contributions reflect on this theme through a variety of lenses, such as environmental justice, combatting green gentrification, and exploring radical approaches to climate change. Read more about this series here. Latin America’s incredible urban growth has … [Read more...] about Mobility Efforts in Mexico City
Meeting the Challenge of Municipal Disinvestment
By Phillip J. Obermiller & Thomas E. Wagner Redlining and gentrification by banks and insurance companies are familiar themes in the planning literature, but little recognition is given to cities engaged in the same tactics. Municipal disinvestment is the process by which public jurisdictions decide to target neighborhoods through strategies sometimes known as benign … [Read more...] about Meeting the Challenge of Municipal Disinvestment