Tag: planning
Will ‘Critical Race Theory’ Attacks Undermine Urban Planning Education?
Laws meant to restrict professors from discussing how race has shaped public policy could target the factual discussion of housing policy and its history—but professors say they don’t intend to go along.
Eminent and Notorious: Radical Urban Planner Chester Hartman (1936-2023)
An appreciation of the life and work of Chester Hartman, a radical planner in the service of a vision of social justice.
Are Urban Planners Staying Silent on Climate Gentrification?
Holmdel, New Jersey, moved its affordable housing to flood-prone land, raising a question about planners' ethical obligations to speak up against such moves.
From an Abandoned Mall to Bustling Community Hub
A medical complex in Mississippi draws on local artists to go beyond doctors' offices and become a gathering place for those living nearby.
The “Who Put That There?” Test—An Interview with Damon Rich, a...
Architect and urban planner Damon Rich on democratizing design, neighborhood change and displacement, and having the freedom to choose collaborators.
Interview with Chester Hartman, Radical Urban Planner
As he retires, the founder of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council reflects on the fields of urban planning, community development, and fair housing.
Interview with George McCarthy, President of the Lincoln Institute of Land...
After 14 years at the Ford Foundation, George "Mac" McCarthy became the fifth president of the 41-year-old Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Uncertain Future in the Absence of Planning
Planning Chicago, by D. Bradford Hunt and Jon B. DeVries. APA Planners Press, 2013, 352 pp. $34.95.
The American Dream of Nowhere
As I embarked on my journey the other day to a planning conference, I carried a dog-eared copy of James Kunstler's The Geography of...
Let’s Talk About CDCs…
…that is if we could. Awareness of community development, both within the larger progressive movement and in the country as a whole, is tragically...