The following piece is part of Progressive City's series The Future of Planning: Insights From Emerging Planners, in which current or recently graduated Planning students reflect on the state of the planning profession and how our activities as planners can be oriented towards justice as opposed to perpetuating ongoing racial, colonial, economic, environmental, and … [Read more...] about The City is Not Your Laboratory
Collective Housing Beyond State and Market: De Nieuwe Meent Community in Amsterdam
By Federico Savini Amsterdam is increasingly unaffordable for many. While the city still achieves a good degree of tenure mix within its borders, poorer groups are increasingly being displaced to the outskirts of the metropolitan area, forced to move because they cannot afford an apartment within the border of the municipality. The Dutch call this process ‘tweedeling’, … [Read more...] about Collective Housing Beyond State and Market: De Nieuwe Meent Community in Amsterdam
Black Dispossession and the Making of Downtown Flushing
By Tarry Hum Introduction The New York City Council vote to approve the highly controversial Special Flushing Waterfront District (SFWD) in December 2020 marked the culmination of more than two decades of planning and rezonings by the Department of City Planning and NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYC EDC) to transform and elevate downtown Flushing, a regional … [Read more...] about Black Dispossession and the Making of Downtown Flushing
Zines, Queers & Economic Democracy: Vernacular Culture in Social Economy
By Darian Razdar What’s a zine? Those of us who are disenfranchised by dominant economic and cultural systems, and with precarious resource-access, use zines as a vernacular form of communication. Artists and authors the world over make zines to share political and cultural polemics, personal narratives, worthwhile skills, and much more. Zines are self-published, … [Read more...] about Zines, Queers & Economic Democracy: Vernacular Culture in Social Economy
DETROIT AS A CITY OF COMMODITIZED MULTIPLES
By Alex Hill Truly every city exists with multiple unequal parts where housing conditions, transportation routes, and access to opportunity remain inequitable. In present day Detroit, the “two Detroits” term has been used to admonish the current Mayor’s focus on Downtown development deals while ignoring “the neighborhoods” where the majority of Detroiters live on the edges … [Read more...] about DETROIT AS A CITY OF COMMODITIZED MULTIPLES