Progressive City: Radical Alternatives

Pandemic Responses and Mutual Aid Are Building Climate Resilience and Justice: Learning from Community Responses in the Boston Area By Penn Loh and Neenah Estrella-Luna The following piece is part of Progressive City's Planning for Environmental Justice series. Contributions reflect on this theme through a variety of lenses, such as environmental justice, combatting green … [Read more...] about Pandemic Responses and Mutual Aid Are Building Climate Resilience and Justice

By Jenn Hendricks The following piece is part of Progressive City's Planning for Environmental Justice series. Contributions reflect on this theme through a variety of lenses, such as environmental justice, combatting green gentrification, and exploring radical approaches to climate change. Read more about this series here. Latin America’s incredible urban growth has … [Read more...] about Mobility Efforts in Mexico City

By Phillip J. Obermiller & Thomas E. Wagner Redlining and gentrification by banks and insurance companies are familiar themes in the planning literature, but little recognition is given to cities engaged in the same tactics. Municipal disinvestment is the process by which public jurisdictions decide to target neighborhoods through strategies sometimes known as benign … [Read more...] about Meeting the Challenge of Municipal Disinvestment

By William Boose and Benjamin de la Peña The following piece is part of Progressive City's Planning for Environmental Justice series. Contributions reflect on this theme through a variety of lenses, such as environmental justice, combatting green gentrification, and exploring radical approaches to climate change. Read more about this series here. To “plan for … [Read more...] about Popular Transportation: Where Planning For Environmental Justice Hits the Pavement

What: Housing Justice, Racial Equity and Economic Democracy When: Fri, 4 November 2022, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT Where: St. Mark's Church, 201 Cowan Avenue, Toronto, ON How Much: FREE Toronto has seen remarkable growth of community land trusts (CLTs) in the last 10 years. These CLTs have been established as community-led alternatives to address issues of eviction, … [Read more...] about PANEL: Housing Justice, Racial Equity and Economic Democracy