By Clement Lau Orphan oil and gas wells—abandoned wells with no known responsible party—present a significant challenge for communities across the U.S., particularly in regions with a history of oil and gas production. These wells, scattered by the tens of thousands nationwide, pose serious environmental, health, and safety risks. For parks and recreation professionals, … [Read more...] about Addressing Orphan Oil and Gas Wells: A Path Towards Environmental Restoration and Justice
Concrete Strategies for a More Radical Praxis
The following is an excerpt from A Student's Guide to Radical Planning Praxis, a zine created by Allison Gable as a creative research project for the Spring 2024 Urban Studies and Planning Honors Thesis Seminar at UC San Diego. The zine, which includes interviews with many members of Planners Network, can be read in its entirety here. Concrete Strategies for a More Radical … [Read more...] about Concrete Strategies for a More Radical Praxis
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Whose streets? Beyond planning for the “visitor class”
The resurgence of the tourism industry during the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a number of issues impacting cities around the world to the forefront of public discussion. In particular, the effects of this sector on housing affordability have been highlighted by a number of ongoing protest movements unfolding throughout Europe that critique how mass tourism … [Read more...] about CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Whose streets? Beyond planning for the “visitor class”
Towards New Alliances: Planners and the Tenants Movement
By Ian Van der Merwe In the US, the prevailing planning policy is to build, build, build, and where local planners are yet to buy in, politicians are happy to step in. In recent years, urban planning has seen the “real estate state” come into its own. Backed by planners aligned with a real estate industry intent on squeezing every dollar of profit it can find from urban … [Read more...] about Towards New Alliances: Planners and the Tenants Movement
Planners Network Disorientation Guide 2024
What does it mean to be a “progressive” or “radical” planner? And what kind of power do planners have to enact change? The Planners Network Disorientation Guide attempts to orient folks new to the field of urban and regional planning to ideas, concepts, and practices linked to progressive or radical planning traditions. Reimagined 20 years after its first iteration, the … [Read more...] about Planners Network Disorientation Guide 2024