While there has been a long history of the policing and criminalization of marginalized populations – including minorities and immigrants – in the U.S., we have entered a new chapter with election of Trump and recent orders to defund sanctuary cities, build a wall along the U.S. and Mexican border, and block the entry of Syrian refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority … [Read more...] about SPECIAL REPRINT ISSUE: PRISONS, POLICING AND PLANNING
STANDING ROCK: VICTORY CELEBRATED, STRUGGLE TO CONTINUE
By Nancy Romer VICTORY….FOR NOW After eight months, starting with a few hundred young Native Americans and swelling to up to 15,000 people in the sprawling encampments of Standing Rock, North Dakota, a victory was celebrated. President Obama’s US Army Corps of Engineers denied the request for an easement to allow Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) and their “family” of … [Read more...] about STANDING ROCK: VICTORY CELEBRATED, STRUGGLE TO CONTINUE
VISION ZERO: RACISM, POLICING, AND RETHINKING SAFETY
By Josmar Trujillo Over the past two years, New York City has erupted in protest over the deaths of unarmed Black people at the hands of the police. In 2014, a Staten Island grandfather named Eric Garner was videotaped being choked to death by an undercover NYPD detective. The police had stopped Garner, as they had countless times before, and accused him of selling loose … [Read more...] about VISION ZERO: RACISM, POLICING, AND RETHINKING SAFETY
GOOD PLANNING, PROGRESSIVE PLANNING AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION: REFLECTING ON PETER MARCUSE
By Aseem Inam As always, Peter Marcuse offers the kind of thought-provoking clarity we need to question the fundamental nature of planning. His thinking is refreshing in an insular field, in which many mainstream urban planners and scholars seem to believe that the response to almost any challenge at the local level should be more or different planning, as conducted by … [Read more...] about GOOD PLANNING, PROGRESSIVE PLANNING AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION: REFLECTING ON PETER MARCUSE
TRUMP: WHAT CAN PROGRESSIVE PLANNERS DO?
By Tom Angotti Note: These are hard times and we are all trying to regain our bearings after the election. This was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever written as I, my four children, and my seven grandchildren, all a part of a multi-racial and multi-cultural family, so acutely feel the pain of this transition. I’ve been through many rightward turns in this country … [Read more...] about TRUMP: WHAT CAN PROGRESSIVE PLANNERS DO?