By Annette Koh The Guggenheim Effect is an urbanist fairy tale about how a starchitect-designed museum transformed a sleepy backwater into a celebrated global destination. In this story, architect Frank Gehry’s undulating design for Bilbao’s Guggenheim museum jolted Bilbao out of post-industrial doldrums by garnering international acclaim and drawing an influx of tourists … [Read more...] about REVIEW OF: “THE HELSINKI EFFECT: PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES TO THE GUGGENHEIM MODEL OF CULTURE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
MISSING MICHAEL SORKIN
By Tom Angotti “Comrade Urbanists!” Every semester during the years I taught at Hunter College, I was greeted by this message from Michael Sorkin. He sent it to me and a small group of professors from diverse disciplines and multiple campuses of the sprawling City University of New York (CUNY). His missive, from the Graduate Urban Design program he headed at City … [Read more...] about MISSING MICHAEL SORKIN
‘ADDING MARCUSE’ TO EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES: COMBATTING INDIRECT DISPLACEMENT
By Julie Mah & Emma Clayton Jones On November 26, Toronto’s South Parkdale neighbourhood lost a McDonald’s. It only took a few minutes for a crane to uproot the golden arches that brought 24-hour light to the southwest corner of King and Dufferin for years.Khalil couldn’t believe it. For the 25 year-old, who has lived in South Parkdale for his entire life, McDonald’s … [Read more...] about ‘ADDING MARCUSE’ TO EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES: COMBATTING INDIRECT DISPLACEMENT
REVIEW OF “DEFENDING LATINA/O COMMUNITIES: THE XENOPHOBIC ERA OF TRUMP AND BEYOND”
By Clara E. Irazábal-Zurita Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond is a compilation of 44 short essays written by Alvaro Huerta from 2008 to 2019, except for 2 essays written by Juan Gómez Quiñones and 1 by Joaquin Montes Huerta (Huerta’s son) and Alvaro Huerta. There is a foreword by José Z. Calderón. Alvaro Huerta also writes an … [Read more...] about REVIEW OF “DEFENDING LATINA/O COMMUNITIES: THE XENOPHOBIC ERA OF TRUMP AND BEYOND”
USING THE NIMBY LABEL TO DISCREDIT THE HOUSING JUSTICE MOVEMENT
By Andrew Morgan As a planning consultant, I was intrigued when my colleagues labeled residents who opposed a development project as “NIMBYs”. Sometimes the label was appropriate; in fact, planners often encounter people who are stubbornly against any kind of development in the area where they live. It is also common to encounter a more perverse xenophobic NIMBY reaction … [Read more...] about USING THE NIMBY LABEL TO DISCREDIT THE HOUSING JUSTICE MOVEMENT