By Natalie Bump Vena As part of efforts to reform how facilities receive permits, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promoting policies that effectively entrust corporations with protecting our most vulnerable communities from environmental hazards that their own businesses produce. By encouraging fenceline residents—people who live next to toxic … [Read more...] about PERMITTING ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE AT THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE NEW LOCALISM: A RESPONSE TO RICHARD FLORIDA AND BRUCE KATZ
By Simone Tulumello Calls for a “new localism” abound these days. In the aftermath of Trump’s election, many liberal and progressive commentators have been claiming that cities are the new “nodes of resistance”. Richard Florida, influenced by Benjamin Barber’s If Mayors Ruled the World, has advocated a new urban agenda comprised of a “devolution” of power to the local … [Read more...] about WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE NEW LOCALISM: A RESPONSE TO RICHARD FLORIDA AND BRUCE KATZ
A RESPONSE TO ABOLITIONIST PLANNING: THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ‘PLANNERS’ IN THE MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION
By Deshonay Dozier Abolition is a movement that seeks to end prisons, police, and border walls. Why? They are institutions of war built on colonial and capitalist legacies of indigenous, Black, brown, Asian and poor violence. They only produce violence and need to be abolished. The fight for abolition is aside from, and not something that can be fully incorporated into, … [Read more...] about A RESPONSE TO ABOLITIONIST PLANNING: THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ‘PLANNERS’ IN THE MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION
ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY PLANNING: NOW MORE THAN EVER
By Tom Angotti From the Progressive City: Radical Alternatives Editorial Committee: Over the course of the year, we will be reprinting some of our most widely read past articles from Progressive Planning Magazine, which are still relevant for the present. These will include commentaries and reflections from the authors of the relevance of the issues for our present … [Read more...] about ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY PLANNING: NOW MORE THAN EVER
WHOSE RIGHT, TO WHAT CITY?
By Kelly Anderson During the 1990s, after decades of disinvestment, white flight and suburbanization, American cities once again became sites of large-scale capital investment. The resulting waves of gentrification¹ and displacement spurred the formation of new social movements, including many that considered themselves part of a US-based coalition The Right to the City … [Read more...] about WHOSE RIGHT, TO WHAT CITY?