Progressive City: Radical Alternatives

By Lacey Sigmon 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 the forefront of many people’s minds today in the midst of regular climate strikes across the globe and reports of the devastating impact humans have had on … [Read more...] about McHARG’S LEGACY AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: A REVIEW OF DESIGN WITH NATURE NOW

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 from Kanehsatà:ke, New York City, Jackson, and Tacoma and was streamed live to conference attendees simultaneously in multiple cities. These two talks are from presenters in … [Read more...] about ‘RESISTING DISPLACEMENT AND DISPOSSESSION’ – TWO TALKS FROM PLANNERS NETWORK’S 2019 MULTI-CITY CONFERENCE

By Allison Lirish Dean 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 University of Chicago Press here. When I went to Hunter College for my master’s in urban planning in the early 2000s, I did so with the intention of … [Read more...] about HOW I MADE A PROGRESSIVE PLANNING PODCAST

By Elizabeth L. Sweet 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 census information and other large quantitative data sets collected by both private and public agencies, interviews, focus groups, GIS, and more recently, … [Read more...] about BODY MAP STORYTELLING: VISCERAL DATA FOR CITY PLANNING