The Organization of Progressive Planning
Immigration Palestine’s Problems: Checkpoints, Walls, Gates and Urban Planners by Tom Angotti Immigration Racialized Regulation: Planning in the Face of Anti- Immigrant Sentiment by Stacy Anne Harwood Anti-Immigrant, Sanctuary and Repentance Cities by María-Teresa Vázquez-Castillo Controlling Immigrants by Controlling Space: […]
By Emily P. Achtenberg Bolivia’s vice minister for housing, Ramiro Rivera, had been on the job only two weeks last March when his office was occupied by 100 angry members of Ponchos Rojos (Red Ponchos), a militant Aymara peasant group. Three weeks […]
By Ernesto Castañeda On 3 October 2007, a piece of street theater was unfolding on the sidewalks of Rue de la Banque, a street in downtown Paris close to the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange. Protestors, mostly legal immigrants, were camping […]
By Jennifer Ridgley and Justin Steil In July of 2006, the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, became a focus of national media attention when its city council approved the Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance (IIRA) proposed by Mayor Lou Barletta. Allegedly […]
By María-Teresa Vázquez-Castillo This is our land. This is our street. Get the hell out of here. –Joseph Turner, founder of Save our State (SOS) In the early twenty-first century, a new stage of the anti-immigrant city is in the […]
By Tom Angotti East Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine Part One in a series on urban apartheids. It takes two hours every day for Palestinians to cross the military checkpoint from Bethlehem to Jerusalem so they can get to work. Bethlehem is […]