The California Wildfires and The Ecology of Fear: Once Again Zoning Trumps Indigenous Knowledge
By Tom Angotti Book cover, Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis, published by Vintage Press, 1999. Wildfires have destroyed parts of the Los...
Rental Housing Crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area: Causes and Solutions
By Stephen Barton San Francisco. Photo by Sam Ellis The San Francisco Bay Area is an economically successful region with a growing...
Review of Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison
Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison Mississippi Prison Writes Initiative. Edited by Louis Bourgeois. VOX Press . 2024. Book review by...
Review of Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement
Reviewed by Tom Angotti Creative Instigation By Fern Tiger New Village Press 328 pages Progressive City readers receive a 20% discount...
The destruction of Palestinian settlements, Western complicity and the need for global solidarity: A view from two urban refugee camps in the northern West Bank
By Rehab Nazzal and Norma M. Rantisi A previous version of this article was published in French in À bâbord! , No. 101, Fall 2024. It is...
Addressing Orphan Oil and Gas Wells: A Path Towards Environmental Restoration and Justice
by Clement Lau Orphan oil and gas wells—abandoned wells with no known responsible party—present a significant challenge for communities...
Concrete Strategies for a More Radical Praxis
The following is an excerpt from A Student's Guide to Radical Planning Praxis , a zine created by Allison Gable as a creative research...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Whose streets? Beyond planning for the “visitor class”
The resurgence of the tourism industry during the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a number of issues impacting cities around...
Towards New Alliances: Planners and the Tenants Movement
By Ian Van der Merwe In the US, the prevailing planning policy is to build, build, build, and where local planners are yet to buy in,...
Planners Network Disorientation Guide 2024
What does it mean to be a “progressive” or “radical” planner? And what kind of power do planners have to enact change? The Planners...
