By Elizabeth L. Sweet Urban Planners usually rely on traditional technocratic methods for collecting data with which they develop plans for housing, transportation, economic and community development. These methods include census information and other large quantitative data sets collected by both private and public agencies, interviews, focus groups, GIS, and more recently, … [Read more...] about BODY MAP STORYTELLING: VISCERAL DATA FOR CITY PLANNING
SHOWCASE: LEFT HAND ROTATION
This week Progressive City is showcasing the work of Spanish film collective Left Hand Rotation, whose next release will be a documentary on social inequality and housing in Lisbon made in collaboration with Stop Despejos and Habita!, two organization that fight evictions and the commodification of housing in Portugal. The documentary is called O que vai acontecer aqui? [What … [Read more...] about SHOWCASE: LEFT HAND ROTATION
REVIEW OF SAMUEL STEIN’S “CAPITAL CITY: GENTRIFICATION AND THE REAL ESTATE STATE”
By Oksana Mironova When I was studying to become an urban planner, I could never figure out how to describe the professional degree to my grandmother. This was not an inter-generational communication failure. Having spent her professional career as an economist in a planned economic system and watching the rapid and often brutal urbanization of the Soviet Union, she had a … [Read more...] about REVIEW OF SAMUEL STEIN’S “CAPITAL CITY: GENTRIFICATION AND THE REAL ESTATE STATE”
MONTREAL’S BOTTOM-UP SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
By Aaron Vansintjan & Donald Cuccioletta Residents of St-Henri, Montreal display a collective art project at a protest-assembly in front of the borough's city hall to demand public ownership of the derelict Canada Malting factory. The text reads: "St-Henri, my neighborhood is not for sale", "a meeting place for everyone", and "my garden". Montreal is one of North … [Read more...] about MONTREAL’S BOTTOM-UP SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
HOUSING, RUBBISH, WALLS AND FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE IN EAST JERUSALEM
By Manal Massalha Subject to racialised planning and zoning policies and treated as foreign immigrants in their own city, where automatic revocation of residency rights applies if they fail to prove that Jerusalem is their centre of life, Palestinians in East Jerusalem live in compromised housing conditions. Their numbers grew from about 69,000 in 1967 – when Israel … [Read more...] about HOUSING, RUBBISH, WALLS AND FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE IN EAST JERUSALEM