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…

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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…

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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