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Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant professor in international environmental planning. We are seeking a new colleague whose research is on environmental planning […]
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 and need to be abolished. The fight for abolition is aside from, and not something that can be […]
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 the World, has advocated a new urban agenda comprised of a “devolution” of power to the local […]
Photo Credit: homesforall.org During the 1990s, after decades of disinvestment, white flight and suburbanization, American cities once again became sites of large-scale capital investment. The resulting waves of gentrification[1] and displacement spurred the formation of new social movements, including many that considered themselves part of a US-based coalition The Right to the City (RTC). My own introduction […]
Introductory remarks by contributing editorial board member Jeffrey Lowe: On Friday, April 6th, Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., received the Urban Affairs Association’s (UAA’s) 2018 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award. Gittell spent her entire 50-year career with the City University of New York, and focused her scholarship and community activism on concerns about racial, gender, […]
*The submission deadline for Critical Planning Volume 25: Social Justice and Planning has been extended to 11:59 PM PDT on June 15, 2018. Please contact us at critplan@gmail.com <critplan@gmail.com> with any questions.* https://criticalplanning.squarespace.com/ Thank you, The *CPJ *Editorial Team *Volume 25: Social Justice and Planning* The guiding theme of Volume 25 is “Social Justice and Planning.” For […]
* Position Title: Visiting Faculty Positions * Employer’s Name: Georgia Institute of Technology * Job Location (City, State): Atlanta, GA Job description: The School of City and Regional Planning (SCaRP) at Georgia Tech invites applications for visiting faculty positions with an expected start date of August 2018. The successful candidates will contribute to our teaching […]
We write as part of a group of 17 UCLA graduate students in Architecture, Public Policy, and Urban Planning who co-facilitated a course, “Abolitionist Planning in Today’s Political Conjuncture.” In a political moment in which a new state “fully committed to white supremacy, misogyny, and virulent nationalism” is deriving political power through racist sentiments, we […]
Image: A strip mall in the Albion & Islington area in Rexdale, Toronto, 2014. As a landing pad for newcomers, the City of Toronto touts its diversity, which is most visible in Toronto’s inner suburbs. In 2016, 51.5 percent of Torontonians identified as a visible minority, with many neighbourhoods in the inner suburbs (Scarborough, North […]
Oppose the Roll-back of American with Disabilities Act Protections – A Planning Issue That Demands Planning Action! On February 15, 2018, the House of Representatives voted (225 to 192) to roll back the protections from the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title III: Public Accommodations and Commercial Facilities). The Act stipulates that no individual may be discriminated against […]
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