Progressive City: Radical Alternatives

By Dick Platkin While we plebeians dawdle away our lives cooking, cleaning, studying, working, raising families, and helping friends and relatives in need, we can (kind-of) sleep comfortably knowing our local elected officials are hard at work combatting climate change . . . through press conferences. Luckily for them, they have Donald Trump as their climate foil, blasting … [Read more...] about TWO NEW L.A. CLIMATE ORGANIZATIONS, “THE PATH TO POSITIVE-LOS ANGELES” AND THE “CLIMATE MOBILIZATION

By Ann Forsyth With the passing of John Friedmann planning, and progressive planning, has lost an important and unique voice. A prolific author, with many honors, Friedmann made significant contributions across a number of domains in planning including planning theory (where he was known for articulating radical planning and transactive planning), urban studies (the world … [Read more...] about JOHN FRIEDMANN, 1926-2017

By Tarry Hum INTRODUCTION Brooklyn is the symbolic capital of New York City’s maker movement comprised of artisans and artists, designers, craftsmen, builders, innovators, and inventors. The adaptive reuse of the borough’s extensive industrial waterfront is integral to an innovation economy that derives social and economic value from place-based global branding. A 2015 … [Read more...] about “GET READY SUNSET PARK, ‘BROOKLYN’ IS COMING”: THE REAL ESTATE IMPERATIVES OF AN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

Sixth Annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture, April 27, 2017 LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York DOUG HENWOOD: Good afternoon, and welcome to the sixth annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture. When I gave the first, in March 2012, I was nervous there wouldn’t be a second, but now we’ve gone way beyond that. Bob was a brilliant polymath—and a … [Read more...] about FROM BOB FITCH TO DONALD TRUMP: “UNFRIENDLY FIRE”

Fifth Annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture, May 5, 2016 LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York IN MEMORIAL: These words, contributed by our editorial board member Samuel Stein, are an excerpt of a tribute read at Peter Kwong’s memorial service in May of 2017. As Samuel points out, Peter was heavily invested in bringing out the contributions of … [Read more...] about ROBERT FITCH: A TRUE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL