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?
REFLECTIONS OF AN ACTIVIST SCHOLAR: HENRY LOUIS TAYLOR, JR.
Introductory remarks by contributing editorial board member Jeffrey Lowe: On Friday, April 6th, Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., received the Urban Affairs Association's (UAA's) 2018 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award. Gittell spent her entire 50-year career with the City University of New York, and focused her scholarship and community activism on concerns about racial, … [Read more...] about REFLECTIONS OF AN ACTIVIST SCHOLAR: HENRY LOUIS TAYLOR, JR.
EMBRACE ABOLITIONIST PLANNING TO FIGHT TRUMPISM
By Thomas Abbot, Roxana Aslan, Riley O'Brien, and Nathan Serafin We write as part of a group of 17 UCLA graduate students in Architecture, Public Policy, and Urban Planning who co-facilitated a course, “Abolitionist Planning in Today’s Political Conjuncture.” In a political moment in which a new state "fully committed to white supremacy, misogyny, and virulent nationalism" … [Read more...] about EMBRACE ABOLITIONIST PLANNING TO FIGHT TRUMPISM
A SENSE OF PLACE IN TORONTO’S INNER SUBURBAN STRIP MALL
By Sunjay Mathuria As a landing pad for newcomers, the City of Toronto touts its diversity, which is most visible in Toronto’s inner suburbs. In 2016, 51.5 percent of Torontonians identified as a visible minority, with many neighbourhoods in the inner suburbs (Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke) exceeding 70 percent visible minorities. Suburbs are often imagined as … [Read more...] about A SENSE OF PLACE IN TORONTO’S INNER SUBURBAN STRIP MALL
GLOBAL HEARTLAND
Review by Pierre Clavel Global Heartland is about Beardstown, Illinois, a small city and former “sundown town” where as late as the 1960s Blacks were warned – officially, unofficially, routinely and occasionally violently not to show their faces after dark. It had been dominated by factories – since the 1970s mainly meatpacking – and their white workers and politicians. … [Read more...] about GLOBAL HEARTLAND