CHICAGO'S HISTORY OF ZONING AGAINST AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Housing in Uptown Chicago, August 1974 (Source: U.S. National Archives) On May 20th, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced an ordinance...
REVIEW OF: "A PEOPLE'S ATLAS OF DETROIT" BY LINDA CAMPBELL, ANDREW NEWMAN, SARA SAFRAN
In popular discourse, the city of Detroit’s reputation is one of lawless frontier, destituteness and above all, exceptionalism. Countless...
DISPOSSESSED AND DISPENSABLE – A VISUAL REFLECTION ON COVID-19 AND THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Basement: family of eight squashed in a one-bedroom basement flat in Silwan with hardly any fresh air after their home was demolished...
A SLOW BURN: A REVIEW OF THE HOTTEST AUGUST
In 1960, the French ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin roamed the streets of Paris, asking citizens “How do...
FRANCES GOLDIN, PRESENTE!
Source: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation One of the most enduring lessons I learned about planning was from an...
PODCAST: DECONSTRUCTING #METOO: YASMIN NAIR ON CATCH AND KILL
In episode thirteen of Ear to the Pavement, the second in a series about books related to #MeToo, Allison talks again with Chicago-based...
VIEWS OF THE NAKED CITY: PICTURES FROM THE DAILY ROUND IN A CITY OF EMPTYING STREETS
In the middle of March, I started to post short photo essays on my social media feed. These snapshots were inspired by daily walks and...
BOOK REVIEW OF EVERYDAY EQUALITIES: MAKING MULTICULTURES IN SETTLER COLONIAL CITIES
Fincher, R., Iveson, K., Leitner, H., & Preston, V. (2019). Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities. U of...
PROGRESSIVE CITY EDITORIAL BOARD OPINION: COVID-19 IS THE PANDEMIC, BUT PLANNING SHOULD COURSE CORRE
FENCE PAINT, 2017 layered construction paper, Madhuri Shukla. Donate to Detention Watch Network. Urban planners and the other professions...
REVIEW OF: "THE HELSINKI EFFECT: PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES TO THE GUGGENHEIM MODEL OF CULTURE-DRIVEN
The Guggenheim Effect is an urbanist fairy tale about how a starchitect-designed museum transformed a sleepy backwater into a celebrated...