A RESPONSE TO ABOLITIONIST PLANNING: THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ‘PLANNERS’ IN THE MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION
Abolition is a movement that seeks to end prisons, police, and border walls. Why? They are institutions of war built on colonial and...
ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY PLANNING: NOW MORE THAN EVER
From the Progressive City: Radical Alternatives Editorial Committee: Over the course of the year, we will be reprinting some of our most...
WHOSE RIGHT, TO WHAT CITY?
Photo Credit: homesforall.org During the 1990s, after decades of disinvestment, white flight and suburbanization, American cities once...
REFLECTIONS OF AN ACTIVIST SCHOLAR: HENRY LOUIS TAYLOR, JR.
Introductory remarks by contributing editorial board member Jeffrey Lowe: On Friday, April 6th, Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., received the...
EMBRACE ABOLITIONIST PLANNING TO FIGHT TRUMPISM
We write as part of a group of 17 UCLA graduate students in Architecture, Public Policy, and Urban Planning who co-facilitated a course,...
A SENSE OF PLACE IN TORONTO’S INNER SUBURBAN STRIP MALL
A strip mall in the Albion & Islington area in Rexdale, Toronto, 2014. As a landing pad for newcomers, the City of Toronto touts its...
GLOBAL HEARTLAND
Global Heartland is about Beardstown, Illinois, a small city and former “sundown town” where as late as the 1960s Blacks were warned –...
THINKING ACROSS TACTICS OF TENANT MOVEMENTS: LOS ANGELES AND BERLIN
Multi-ethnic and immigrant resistance plays a pivotal role in challenging the political shifts right, which have been rooted in racism,...
MAPPING THE ‘UNCHARTED’ FAVELA: THE GROWING ROLE OF PARTICIPATORY AND INSURGENT CARTOGRAPHIES
Despite Rio de Janeiro’s original and oldest favela just celebrating its 120th anniversary last month, it was not until fifty years...
CASAS VACÍAS
After receiving a grant from New York University in August 2017, we went to the town of La Preciosita in Puebla, Mexico to speak with...
