By Peter Marcuse I. Good Planning in the Mainstream Planning, urban design, and development are in the public mind today. The increasing public interest in city development has grown out of exposure to architectural and design ventures, interest in historical preservation, studies of city growth and shrinkage, and new concepts around the relationship between physical … [Read more...] about WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH “GOOD” PLANNING?
SKIN THE CITY
By Paula Z. Segal I won’t call it graffiti, this practice of making memory by inscribing place onto itself. In January 2013, the organization I run, 596 Acres, became one of the first “stewdio tenants" at the then-newly-reopened Silent Barn on Bushwick, Brooklyn. We took over a portion of an abandoned garage, built a platform to raise our carpet and desk legs away from … [Read more...] about SKIN THE CITY
IS THERE A PLACE IN THE PROGRESSIVE CITY FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY?
By Petra L. Doan Planners seeking to create progressive cities must recognize that the increasingly visible lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community has deep roots in the most major cities, but also is a group that continues to suffer from an epidemic of intolerance. Although the Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage granted LGBTQ partners who … [Read more...] about IS THERE A PLACE IN THE PROGRESSIVE CITY FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY?
RIO’S REAL VS. UNMET OLYMPIC LEGACIES: WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CITIES
By Theresa Williamson From New York City to Berlin, Hong Kong to London, conflicts have been increasingly recorded in recent years between two urban camps. First there are those who view the city as fundamentally commercial, drawing on the city’s origin as a place of exchange made possible thanks to agricultural production - a place of economies of scale and agglomeration … [Read more...] about RIO’S REAL VS. UNMET OLYMPIC LEGACIES: WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CITIES
PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION BY DESIGN: DIVERSIFYING THE PLANNING PROFESSION
By Giovania Tiarachristie In Spring of 2015, the New York City Council voted to approve the East New York rezoning, but not without a bitter battle in the low-income, predominately black and Latino neighborhood that had seen very little investment from the city over the decades. Residents and advocates protested against the proposal to incentivize new development with … [Read more...] about PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION BY DESIGN: DIVERSIFYING THE PLANNING PROFESSION