By Kevin Lujan Lee The following piece is a part of Progressive City's Planning for Decarceral Spaces for Collective Action series, which addresses how planners and activists can actively engage in designing, creating policies, and/or advocating for the creation of decarceral spaces which promote safety, reduce harm, and are accessible. 1973 saw the formalization of a … [Read more...] about Challenging the Transnational Carceral Apparatus of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Settler Colonial Planning and Gaza: As Captured in Visualizing Palestine’s Stories
For 75 years, Palestinians have been subject to Israel’s settler colonial practices of dispossession and displacement. Today, internationally recognized human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and B’Tselem, acknowledge that Israel’s current system of domination and oppression over Palestinians constitutes apartheid. Nowhere is this more evident than Gaza, … [Read more...] about Settler Colonial Planning and Gaza: As Captured in Visualizing Palestine’s Stories
VIDEO: Radical Advice for Early Career Planners
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 produces … [Read more...] about VIDEO: Radical Advice for Early Career Planners
Climate Justice Viewed by Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network
By Beatriz CarvalhoTranslation by Ikrom AlajoulinThis article is part of a series created in partnership with the Center for Critical Studies in Language, Education, and Society (NECLES), at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), to produce articles to be used as teaching materials in Niterói public schools. The world is experiencing increasingly frequent extreme climatic … [Read more...] about Climate Justice Viewed by Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network
Call for Submissions – Planning for Decarceral Spaces for Collective Action
Following the protest movements of 2020, an honest reckoning with the carceral state seemed possible. While abolitionist organizing is flourishing and continuing to push the country toward a more just and peaceful future, mainstream information on policing and crime in the United States is muddled by misinformation and fear-mongering. Planners can be allies in combating … [Read more...] about Call for Submissions – Planning for Decarceral Spaces for Collective Action