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
TRANSFORMATIVE PLANNING PANEL
This panel discussion was held in Toronto on November 29, 2019 to launch the new Planner’s Network book Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism, edited by Tom Angotti and published by Black Rose Books, with distribution by the University of Chicago Press. Below are the texts for the talks by the four panelists, who were responding to the questions … [Read more...] about TRANSFORMATIVE PLANNING PANEL
The Fallacy of “Industry City, Our Way”
By Tarry Hum Sunset Park, Brooklyn is a vibrant racially diverse and majority immigrant working-class neighborhood. As one of the city’s largest waterfront neighborhoods, it is a frontline community in confronting the existential threat of climate change. Numerous academic studies including by New York University’s Furman Center substantiate that Sunset Park is undergoing … [Read more...] about The Fallacy of “Industry City, Our Way”