By Tom Angotti People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons Ashley Dawson New York: OR Books, 2020. 274 pages • $20 ISBN 978-1-68219-300-6 Urban planning has traditionally focused on land, particularly its use and development. Questions about how energy is generated and used usually get left to the engineers and the energy providers. At the community level, … [Read more...] about WHAT CAN PLANNERS DO TO PROMOTE PEOPLE’S POWER? REVIEW OF “PEOPLE’S POWER: RECLAIMING THE ENERGY COMMONS”
COVID 2020: RECOVERING FROM A TRIPLE WHAMMY
By Sam Boskey In Montréal, looking back on the last few months, we see how the repercussions of the pandemic hit us in waves, like a triple whammy. The first blow was social and cultural. The government-ordered lockdown and confinement immediately changed the way we spent our days, how we saw to our basic needs of food and shelter, and how we related (or not) to our fellow … [Read more...] about COVID 2020: RECOVERING FROM A TRIPLE WHAMMY
‘ONLY PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REDUCES INEQUALITY IN ACCESS TO SANITATION’ SAYS RESEARCHER
By Eduardo Miranda This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. For the original interview published in Portuguese by Eduardo Miranda in Brasil de Fato, click here. The idea that privatization is related to the efficiency of a company is a fallacy unsustained by facts. This affirmation comes from Suyá Quintslr, researcher and professor at the … [Read more...] about ‘ONLY PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REDUCES INEQUALITY IN ACCESS TO SANITATION’ SAYS RESEARCHER
PLANNING NOT POLICING: A CALL BY PLANNERS NETWORK AND PROGRESSIVE CITY
Urban planners and all professionals responsible for planning and designing public spaces must pay greater attention to the many ways that streets, plazas, parks and public facilities in cities around the world are the main sites for exercising free speech and protest as part of the global movements for Black Lives, Indigenous Lives, Climate Justice, labor, equal rights for … [Read more...] about PLANNING NOT POLICING: A CALL BY PLANNERS NETWORK AND PROGRESSIVE CITY
ANNEXATION AS PRESENT REALITY: TAKING STOCK OF THE COLONIAL PLANNING REGIME IN PALESTINE’S JORDAN VALLEY
By Norma M. Rantisi In the summer of 2015, through a visit coordinated by Ma’an Development Center¹, I had the opportunity to meet with Bedouin herders and farmers in the Jordan Valley (in the eastern part of the occupied West Bank) and learn about the challenges that colonial occupation presents for their everyday lives. The challenges they cited ranged from the ongoing … [Read more...] about ANNEXATION AS PRESENT REALITY: TAKING STOCK OF THE COLONIAL PLANNING REGIME IN PALESTINE’S JORDAN VALLEY