Opinion: Will the 2020 Election Signal an Historic Shift from Personality to...
MSNBC’s Ari Velshi recently grilled Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, about his candidacy for president. Refreshingly, the interview wasn’t the usual mix of softball questions and unchallenged...
View ArticleWhat are we doing wrong?
Dateline: January 1968, New Delhi. “Beautiful city, people friendly, but very crowded, solid people in the parks, living in the fort, camped out in the railroad station.” Dateline: January 2019,...
View Article“We Are a Movement”: Students advance Embedded Planning at the 2019 National...
A district citizens’ group from East Harlem, in anticipation of a meeting it had arranged with the Mayor and his commissioners, prepared a document recounting the devastation wrought in the district by...
View ArticleMeeting Park Needs Through Mobile Recreation
Have you heard of mobile recreation? Essentially, this is the idea of bringing recreational resources to communities, especially those that lack parks. UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris was...
View ArticleBerlin’s Huge Push to Improve Public Transit
Earlier this year Berlin announced its plans to funnel large amounts of funding into the city’s transport system, to the tune of approximately €28 billion. At the same time, other city planning...
View ArticleBook Review: Wild LA
Nature is everywhere in Los Angeles. That is the main message you will get from reading the new book “Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles” released by Timber Press. While we...
View ArticleWhat happens to refugees after deportation?
The following account is from Adam McLane. He is a San Diego internet and digital marketing entrepreneur and a christian pastor. Like many in the border city, he was a frequent visitor to Mexico. As...
View ArticleBook Review: Urban Green Spaces
Parks and other types of urban green spaces are often perceived as nice-to-haves rather than must-haves. However, as I have argued and shared in numerous articles (like Nurturing Neighborhoods), urban...
View ArticleCool Freaking Shoes, Publishing, & Third Places
At a large common table at a fave coffee shop early last year, I spied a man alternating between working intensely on his computer, and furiously sketching on a pair of canvas Vans. (Okay, spied is a...
View ArticleLooking Ahead to 2020: Events for Planners
Can you believe that it is almost November? With 2020 fast approaching, I would like to highlight twelve events that planners, architects, and landscape architects can look forward to in the new year....
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