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...
THE URGENCY AND UNCERTAINTY OF "PROGRESSIVE PLANNING" TODAY
Samuel Stein giving the introductory keynote for 2019 PN conference in New York City. Photo by Arielle Lawson. Note: The following...
ROBERT FITCH: A TRUE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
Fifth Annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture, May 5, 2016 LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York “We are basically the...
ROBERT FITCH MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES FROM PROGRESSIVE CITY
Robert (Bob) Fitch was a writer, researcher, teacher and organizer. He was born in 1939, and died tragically in 2011 from complications...
PLANNERS EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, 'Jane Jacobs' classic 1961 book, The Death and...
THE POVERTY OF PLANNING
All over American people are rising up in anger over the repeated murders of Black men and women by police, and the impunity most of them...
“GOOD PLANNING” IS BAD PLANNING, AND “PROGRESSIVE” IS NOT ENOUGH: A RESPONSE TO PETER MARCUSE
By Samuel Stein In his inaugural article on this website, “What’s the Matter with ‘Good’ Planning?”, Peter Marcuse has once again...