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: Equity Planning Theory
Reimagining Safety, Advancing Visions for a Decarceral City: Dispatches from Community Organizers
by Carceral Studies Research Collective* 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. “We’re … [Read more...] about Reimagining Safety, Advancing Visions for a Decarceral City: Dispatches from Community Organizers
Violence and Profit – Gentrification from Louisville to Salt Lake
By Ian Van der MerweThe 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. Following the murder of … [Read more...] about Violence and Profit – Gentrification from Louisville to Salt Lake
Challenging the Transnational Carceral Apparatus of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
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