From and Toward a Queer Urbanism

By Kian Goh “The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationships to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire.” —David Harvey, “The Right to the City”…

Categories: Spring 2011

Transit-Oriented Development and Communities of Color: A Field Report

By Gen Fujioka Transit-oriented development (TOD) has become a leading policy prescription for reversing America’s sprawling path of growth. The Obama administration, through its Sustainable Communities Initiative, state and local agencies and progressive think-tanks all emphasize TOD as a means…

Categories: Winter 2011

Just Transportation Planning: Lessons from California

By Richard A. Marcantonio Transportation has long been at the heart of our   nation’s civil rights struggle. The struggle against Jim Crow transportation was more than half a century old when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to…

Categories: Winter 2011

The Heresies in HUD’s Public Housing Policy

By Peter Marcuse “I used to joke with my colleagues about committing what I called ‘public housing heresy,’ because people would always say, ‘But, we’re public housing and we’re different.’ And I said, ‘It’s really the same.’ We’re public housing,…

Categories: Winter 2011