For 75 years, Palestinians have been subject to Israel’s settler colonial practices of dispossession and displacement. Today, internationally recognized human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and B’Tselem, acknowledge that Israel’s current system of domination and oppression over Palestinians constitutes apartheid. Nowhere is this more evident than Gaza, … [Read more...] about Settler Colonial Planning and Gaza: As Captured in Visualizing Palestine’s Stories
VIDEO: Radical Advice for Early Career Planners
Josh is a practicing urban planner in the Mid Atlantic. For the past nine years, Josh has served as a land use and transportation planner with a career focus in public engagement. Since the onset of the pandemic, Josh has taken on an equity planning role and serves as a subject expert for equity on transportation projects. In his free time, he researches, writes, and produces … [Read more...] about VIDEO: Radical Advice for Early Career Planners
Climate Justice Viewed by Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network
By Beatriz CarvalhoTranslation by Ikrom AlajoulinThis article is part of a series created in partnership with the Center for Critical Studies in Language, Education, and Society (NECLES), at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), to produce articles to be used as teaching materials in Niterói public schools. The world is experiencing increasingly frequent extreme climatic … [Read more...] about Climate Justice Viewed by Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network
Call for Submissions – Planning for Decarceral Spaces for Collective Action
Following the protest movements of 2020, an honest reckoning with the carceral state seemed possible. While abolitionist organizing is flourishing and continuing to push the country toward a more just and peaceful future, mainstream information on policing and crime in the United States is muddled by misinformation and fear-mongering. Planners can be allies in combating … [Read more...] about Call for Submissions – Planning for Decarceral Spaces for Collective Action
REVIEW: Zoned Out
By Katelin Penner Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised EditionEdited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia MorseNew Village Press192 Pages$22.95 (paperback)Nearly 110 years ago, in 1916, New York City became an early adherent to the municipal zoning code, seeking to address technological developments like the steel-frame building and the Otis … [Read more...] about REVIEW: Zoned Out