'Cultural Districts' in San Francisco Exacerbate Issues of Displacement and Affordability
By Stasha Lampert and Toshio Meronek In 2018, San Francisco put the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District on its official map, designating...
Taking Community Engagement Seriously: Universities, Inequality and Accountability
By Ana Milic, Alex Megelas, and Emanuel Guay The following piece is part of Progressive City's Planning for Community Economic...
Review: A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City
A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato and Joshua Sbicca NYU Press...
'ADDING MARCUSE' TO EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES: COMBATTING INDIRECT DISPLACEMENT
Figure 1: Khalil, a 25 year-old South Parkdale resident, locates his daily social experiences as part of a cognitive mapping exercise....
SHOWCASE: LEFT HAND ROTATION
This week Progressive City is showcasing the work of Spanish film collective Left Hand Rotation, whose next release will be a documentary...
REVIEW OF SAMUEL STEIN'S "CAPITAL CITY: GENTRIFICATION AND THE REAL ESTATE STATE"
When I was studying to become an urban planner, I could never figure out how to describe the professional degree to my grandmother. This...
MONTREAL'S BOTTOM-UP SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
Residents of St-Henri, Montreal display a collective art project at a protest-assembly in front of the borough's city hall to demand...
BOOK REVIEW OF REFINERY TOWN: BIG OIL, BIG MONEY, AND THE REMAKING OF AN AMERICAN CITY BY STEVE EARL
This is the story of Richmond, CA, a city of 107,000 just north of Berkeley and Oakland – for decades under the thumb of Chevron’s large...
VISION ZERO: RACISM, POLICING, AND RETHINKING SAFETY
Over the past two years, New York City has erupted in protest over the deaths of unarmed Black people at the hands of the police. In...
