Progressive City: Radical Alternatives

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

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

By Needa BeeIntroduction by Margaretta Lin Margaretta Lin’s Introduction to Needa Bee and The Village The principles of transformative community planning and public policy design require us as planners and policy change advocates to center the experiences, voices, and power of frontline leaders who are directly impacted by the structural injustices we care about … [Read more...] about Needa Bee on Decarcerating Spaces & Homelessness

By Samuel Stein and Tarry Hum Last month, New York lost a champion for the working-class immigrant city. Arturo Ignacio Sanchez passed away in assisted living in Queens, the borough he loved and fought for over the course of his 74-year life. Arturo taught urban planning at various colleges and universities around New York and wrote well-regarded academic papers, … [Read more...] about Remembering Arturo Ignacio Sanchez, a Fighter for Immigrant New York

Josh is a practicing urban planner in the Mid Atlantic. For the past nine years, Josh has served as a land use and transportation planner with a career focus in public engagement. Since the onset of the pandemic, Josh has taken on an equity planning role and serves as a subject expert for equity on transportation projects. In his free time, he researches, writes, and … [Read more...] about VIDEO: The Transactive Theory of Urban Planning