By Samuel Stein Note: The following article was presented by the author as the introductory keynote lecture for the 2019 Planners Network conference in New York City. We meet today at a decisive, uncertain, frightening, and contradictory political moment. These dynamics are manifested in multiple ways, at both the international and the urban scales. First, this is a … [Read more...] about THE URGENCY AND UNCERTAINTY OF “PROGRESSIVE PLANNING” TODAY
REVIEW OF “PLACEMAKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH: PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES FOR PLANNING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
By Maya Amichai Derr, V., Chawla, L., & Mintzer, M. (2018). Placemaking with children and youth: Participatory practices for planning sustainable communities. New York: New Village Press. 416 pages ISBN: 9781613321003 $40.00 Children and the Right to be Heard Placemaking with Children and Youth is a practitioner’s guidebook for involving young people in … [Read more...] about REVIEW OF “PLACEMAKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH: PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES FOR PLANNING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
PLANNED AFFORDABILITY: INCLUSIONARY HOUSING IN LONDON
By Fei Li Like most megacities, London faces a persistent housing crisis. In 2017, the median housing price to earnings ratio in London ranged from 9.7 in the high poverty, east London borough of Tower Hamlets, to 40.7 in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Ipsos MORI Political Monitor Survey in recent years shows that around one third of respondents in … [Read more...] about PLANNED AFFORDABILITY: INCLUSIONARY HOUSING IN LONDON
WHATEVER THE PROBLEM, THE SOLUTION IS LUXURY DEVELOPMENT: NEW YORK CITY’S 21ST CENTURY PLANNING
By Samuel Stein New York boosters sometimes call their city “the real estate capital of the world.” By 2016 its buildings and land were worth over $1 trillion, representing a hike of more than 10 percent over the previous year. The real estate sector is the largest contributor to the New York metropolitan gross domestic product, one of the city’s major employers and by far … [Read more...] about WHATEVER THE PROBLEM, THE SOLUTION IS LUXURY DEVELOPMENT: NEW YORK CITY’S 21ST CENTURY PLANNING
HOW PLANNING IMPACTS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IN THE RESURGENT CITY
A number of presentations at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 59th Annual Conference last year in Buffalo, New York, placed attention on urban resurgence as a process that is often incomplete, constantly ongoing, and always unevenly distributed in terms of who wins and who loses. One session in particular focused on the interactions of "planning practice with … [Read more...] about HOW PLANNING IMPACTS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IN THE RESURGENT CITY