By Barbara Rahder What are you two healthy young women doing with crayons here? You can earn so much more money in one of the rooms I can offer you. - a local pimp in Toronto’s Kensington Market, 1967 Regula Modlich, Reggie to her friends, was standing on the sidewalk, hand-colouring a land-use map of the Kensington Neighbourhood when the pimp mentioned above offered … [Read more...] about REGULA MODLICH: TORONTO’S RADICAL FEMINIST PLANNER (1939-2018)
PLACE & PRIVILEGE: TELLING STORIES ABOUT PLACES THAT AREN’T YOURS
By Sunjay Mathuria Planning, Place & Entitlement As a city planner, I am mindful about how I speak about places, especially those I do not have lived experience with. It is a tricky position to navigate because I think, as planners, part of our “expertise” derives from being able to define the elements of a “good” place – read: well-designed, walkable, vibrant. In … [Read more...] about PLACE & PRIVILEGE: TELLING STORIES ABOUT PLACES THAT AREN’T YOURS
PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE U.S. AND BRAZIL: 9 REFLECTIONS AND LESSONS FROM THE L.A. TEACHERS STRIKE
By Suzanna Caflisch In January, tens of thousands of teachers mobilized across the city of Los Angeles for a six-day strike to protest low wages and a lack of support for students in public schools across the district. United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), a teachers union boasting a membership of 30,000, organized the walkout and ultimately negotiated a settlement … [Read more...] about PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE U.S. AND BRAZIL: 9 REFLECTIONS AND LESSONS FROM THE L.A. TEACHERS STRIKE
DECOLONIAL PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA
By Annette Koh Decolonizing planning requires that we take a long look at how planning’s project of making things better is and has always been subjective and rooted in exploitation. Our concepts of the public good and collective improvement are anchored in the history of colonial dispossession. In North America, European ideas about property and land rights allowed for … [Read more...] about DECOLONIAL PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA
‘CREATIVE PLACEMAKING’ IN SAN FRANCISCO AND SEATTLE: DEMOCRATIC AND/OR INCLUSIVE?
By Vinita Goyal Creative Placemaking as a panacea for economic revival and neighborhood reinvigoration has blossomed in the last decade or so, since the earlier seeds of art and artists coalescing in the urban realm were planted. We no longer celebrate the glitzy boulevards of Haussmann’s Paris or even more recent institutional settings of a Lincoln Center for the … [Read more...] about ‘CREATIVE PLACEMAKING’ IN SAN FRANCISCO AND SEATTLE: DEMOCRATIC AND/OR INCLUSIVE?