By Deshonay Dozier Abolition is a movement that seeks to end prisons, police, and border walls. Why? They are institutions of war built on colonial and capitalist legacies of indigenous, Black, brown, Asian and poor violence. They only produce violence […]
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE NEW LOCALISM: A RESPONSE TO RICHARD FLORIDA AND BRUCE KATZ
Calls for a “new localism” abound these days. In the aftermath of Trump’s election, many liberal and progressive commentators have been claiming that cities are the new “nodes of resistance”. Richard Florida, influenced by Benjamin Barber’s If Mayors Ruled […]
Spring 2012: Occupy!
Seventh Generation Occupy Urban Planning! (221 KB) By Tom Angotti and Marie Kennedy Occupy Racism by Chester Hartman Occupy! The Tactic of Occupation and the Movement of the 99 Percent by Jonathan Matthew Smucker What Can We Do In Public? Lessons […]
Winter 2012: Manufacturing: New Industries, Progressive Approaches?
Seventh Generation Sites Speak Louder than Words: Occupy Wall Street in New York City (471 KB) By Samuel Stein Manufacturing Introduction to the Special Issue on Manufacturing (410 KB) By Jennifer Clark and Pierre Clavel Planners and Manufacturing: An Uneasy Alliance (210 KB) […]
Fall 2011 Transportation, Accessibility and Equity
The Seventh Generation An Urban Need for a New Economic Public Policy Approach in Economic Development Practice (190 KB) by Fernando Centeno Feature Articles Public Transit’s Imperiled Future (153 KB) By Lisa Schweitzer Getting There: Putting Accessibility into Practice for Progressive Transportation […]
Summer 2011: Sustainable Community Development
The Seventh Generation The Austerity Scam by Peter Marcuse Feature Articles Planning in an Age of Austerity—1979 and 2011 by Pierre Clavel MLK Assassination: 1968 Sanitation Strike Reminds Us What’s at Stake Today by Chad Johnson The Right Fit for […]
Spring 2011 : Why Unions Matter
The Seventh Generation Why Unions Matter: Defending the Great Equalizer by Chris Tilly Feature Articles From and Toward a Queer Urbanism by Kian Goh Challenging the Mixed-Income Housing Paradigm: Preserving Low-Income Communities through Non-Profit Development Initiatives by Michael Pyatok Growing […]
Winter 2011 Transportation Justice
The Seventh Generation The Heresies in HUD’s Public Housing Policy by Peter Marcuse Feature Articles Just Transportation Planning: Lessons from California by Richard A. Marcantonio The Ongoing Debate Over Privatization of Public Housing: National Association of HUD Tenants Comments on […]
Fall 2010 New Orleans: The Road Home?
The Seventh Generation Demanding Our Right to the City by Cuz Potter Fixing Unequal Cities by William W. Goldsmith and Edward J. Blakely Feature Articles “The Road Home” Is a Road to Nowhere for Black New Orleanians by James Perry […]
Summer 2010 The Invisible Cyclists
The Seventh Generation Beyond Networking, Left Alternatives by Tom Angotti Feature Articles The Invisible Cyclists of Los Angeles by Omari Fuller and Edgar Beltran The 2016 Olympics in Rio: A Community Plays Against the Real Estate Game by Theresa Williamson […]