By Raine Robichaud Despite Rio de Janeiro’s original and oldest favela just celebrating its 120th anniversary last month, it was not until fifty years later, in 1947, that the city’s favelas began to be included on official city maps, a visual exclusion that reflected much broader spatial exclusions from opportunities and even basic services such as mail delivery. In more … [Read more...] about MAPPING THE ‘UNCHARTED’ FAVELA: THE GROWING ROLE OF PARTICIPATORY AND INSURGENT CARTOGRAPHIES
CASAS VACÍAS
By Molly Taylor; Photography by Isabel Dietz Hartmann; Translation by Madeline Taylor After receiving a grant from New York University in August 2017, we went to the town of La Preciosita in Puebla, Mexico to speak with Nido de Aves, a women’s group that advocates for migrant justice and women’s rights. Sra. Benita Martinez started the group as waves of emigration began to … [Read more...] about CASAS VACÍAS
RESILIENCE IS NOT ENOUGH: THINK SEVEN GENERATIONS, ACT NOW FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
By Tom Angotti In “The Other Side of Resilience” Renata Silberblatt and Eamon Tewell (Progressive City, October 2017) raise some important questions about the focus on resilience as a way to respond to floods, droughts, wildfires, and climate change. But they don’t go far enough. It’s not just that resilience is more complex than it seems and has multiple meanings, as they … [Read more...] about RESILIENCE IS NOT ENOUGH: THINK SEVEN GENERATIONS, ACT NOW FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
LA’S REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY KEEPS CRYING WOLF: WILL POLICYMAKERS KEEP LISTENING?
By Alex Visotzky “They’re going to tell you that the sky will fall. The sky will not fall.” LA Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson was at the microphone at an August 22nd press conference at City Hall just before a City Council hearing on Los Angeles’ proposed linkage fee to fund affordable housing construction and preservation. Harris-Dawson, a first-term Councilmember, … [Read more...] about LA’S REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY KEEPS CRYING WOLF: WILL POLICYMAKERS KEEP LISTENING?
PLANNING FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: PUTTING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE INTO GENERAL PLANS
Imagine a state made up of healthy and thriving communities, where urban and rural neighborhoods have the means to prevent and reduce industrial pollution, provide open space and local organic food, develop affordable housing, preserve local culture, generate good jobs and conduct community-led planning to sustain this vibrant future. This vision can now be a reality through … [Read more...] about PLANNING FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: PUTTING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE INTO GENERAL PLANS