Often imagined as sites of encounter, dissent and collective life, public spaces worldwide are increasingly governed through logics of securitization and capital. In his classic essay “The End of Public Space?,” Don Mitchell draws on the redevelopment of Berkeley’s Peoples’ Park to demonstrate how an orderly, tightly controlled vision of the city displaces alternative ways of … [Read more...] about CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Keeping the ‘Public’ in Public Space
Brazil’s First National Meeting of Community Architecture Highlights Women’s Leadership and the Power of Self-Built Architecture in Achieving the Right to Housing and to the City
By Aline Marieta • Translation by Kay Alvito Between November 11 and 14, 2025, the 1st National Meeting of Community Architecture (ENAC) took place at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UFRJ) School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU) and Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences (IFCS). Amid memories, reports and resistance, ENAC brought together women, … [Read more...] about Brazil’s First National Meeting of Community Architecture Highlights Women’s Leadership and the Power of Self-Built Architecture in Achieving the Right to Housing and to the City
The Rise of India’s Elite Urban Education Hubs
By ShehanaThe following piece is part of Progressive City’s “Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer” series, which asks authors to examine the role of academic institutions in (re)shaping cities and how planning practitioners, activists, educators, students, or other actors can contest their harmful impacts both from within and outside these institutions. … [Read more...] about The Rise of India’s Elite Urban Education Hubs
Who gets to be ‘political’?
The following piece is part of Progressive City’s “Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer” series, which asks authors to examine the role of academic institutions in (re)shaping cities and how planning practitioners, activists, educators, students, or other actors can contest their harmful impacts both from within and outside these institutions. More … [Read more...] about Who gets to be ‘political’?
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani: Hopes and Fears for New York City’s Next Mayor
By Tom Angotti Progressives in New York City are celebrating the huge, decisive and unprecedented victory of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani to be the next mayor, following a huge grassroots campaign that went up against big money, a withering Democratic Party apparatus and an intense, well-funded media blitz that accused the candidate of being too inexperienced, a … [Read more...] about Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani: Hopes and Fears for New York City’s Next Mayor