By Tom Angotti A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato and Joshua Sbicca NYU Press 384 Pages Concern about accessibility to healthy food has often shaped local urban planning discussions and would seem to be consistent with the profession’s longstanding embrace of the theory (if not the … [Read more...] about Review: A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City
Legalizing Survival: Public space and the criminalizing of the homeless in the age of COVID
By Madison Kennedy & Lisa Berglund Introduction Across North America, the COVID-19 pandemic has strained social services and shelters serving the homeless, forcing many onto the streets and exacerbating conflict about the right to use public spaces as a matter of survival. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, the largest city in Atlantic Canada, the pandemic brought a surge in … [Read more...] about Legalizing Survival: Public space and the criminalizing of the homeless in the age of COVID
Like a Good Neighbor, Stay Over There: Lessons from COVID on Active Transportation and Park Access
By Corrie Parrish The following piece is part of Progressive City's series The Future of Planning: Insights From Emerging Planners, in which current or recently graduated Planning students reflect on the state of the planning profession and how our activities as planners can be oriented towards justice as opposed to perpetuating ongoing racial, colonial, economic, … [Read more...] about Like a Good Neighbor, Stay Over There: Lessons from COVID on Active Transportation and Park Access
It’s Time to Ditch the Stakeholder Discourse
By Alexander Ferrer The following piece is part of Progressive City's series The Future of Planning: Insights From Emerging Planners, in which current or recently graduated Planning students reflect on the state of the planning profession and how our activities as planners can be oriented towards justice as opposed to perpetuating ongoing racial, colonial, economic, … [Read more...] about It’s Time to Ditch the Stakeholder Discourse
Reframing Black Womxn in the Nation’s Capital
By Nisa Harper Dear D.C., Black womxn deserve honest conversations, housing equity and apologies. I'm writing this letter to speak up for the Black womxn who aren't empowered enough to speak up for themselves. I'm writing this letter to speak my truth so young womxn coming behind me understand that they don't ever have to sit quietly and endure racism, sexism nor … [Read more...] about Reframing Black Womxn in the Nation’s Capital