The following is a transcription of Faranak Miraftab’s speech delivered upon receiving the 2025 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Distinguished Educator Award at the ACSP Annual Conference held in Minneapolis from October 23rd to 25th. Good morning. Thank you so much for your generous introduction. I received the email about this unexpected honor a … [Read more...] about 2025 ACSP Distinguished Educator Award Speech
Education as Real Estate: The Commodification of Higher Learning and Peri-Urban Transformation in Sonipat, India
By Ishita Chatterjee and Minati Dash The following piece is part of Progressive City’s “Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer” series, which asks authors to examine the role of academic institutions in (re)shaping cities and how planning practitioners, activists, educators, students, or other actors can contest their harmful impacts both from … [Read more...] about Education as Real Estate: The Commodification of Higher Learning and Peri-Urban Transformation in Sonipat, India
Planning Against Hostile Campus Designs: Spatial Strategies and Persuasive Storytelling About the Future
By Chris GiamarinoThe following piece is part of Progressive City’s “Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer” series, which asks authors to examine the role of academic institutions in (re)shaping cities and how planning practitioners, activists, educators, students, or other actors can contest their harmful impacts both from within and outside these … [Read more...] about Planning Against Hostile Campus Designs: Spatial Strategies and Persuasive Storytelling About the Future
From West Harlem to Manhattanville: Columbia University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer
By Stefan Chavez-NorgaardThe following piece is part of Progressive City's "Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer" series, which asks authors to examine the role of academic institutions in (re)shaping cities and how planning practitioners, activists, educators, students, or other actors can contest their harmful impacts both from within and outside … [Read more...] about From West Harlem to Manhattanville: Columbia University as Planner, Occupier, and Developer
Tracking the Trackers: ICE Detention Counter-Mapping Project
By AJ Kim How do planners move beyond bystanding? What does it mean to do rapid response research? We are witness in these times to the ways in which localities, particularly cities, can either contest or comply with unjust laws and policies. How can we as planners resist? What does compliance compromise? As a field with a clear code of ethics, these are always critical … [Read more...] about Tracking the Trackers: ICE Detention Counter-Mapping Project