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
A WORLD FOR THE MANY: AN INTERVIEW WITH OLYMPIA CITY COUNCILMEMBER RENATA ROLLINS
By Marco Rosaire Rossi Just over sixty miles south of Seattle sits the small city of Olympia, Washington. Tucked into the southeastern corner of Bud Inlet, Olympia—the state’s capital—is well known for being a focal point in the Pacific Northwest for bohemian artists and leftwing activists. The Evergreen State College, a progressive liberal arts school, located just … [Read more...] about A WORLD FOR THE MANY: AN INTERVIEW WITH OLYMPIA CITY COUNCILMEMBER RENATA ROLLINS