Recent criticalplanning items

Editors' Introduction: On Margins and Junctures

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The contributions assembled in Volume 28: Margins and Junctures demonstrate just how scholarship rooted in the margins can illuminate the political, material, and affective pressures which shape our present junctures. Across the volume, authors show how the margins function simultaneously as sites of acute vulnerability and of world-building. They reveal how violence (e.g., infrastructural, bureaucratic, spectacular) is rendered ordinary via the doctrines of planning, instruments of finance, and the routines of institutions. At the same time, they foreground how alternative social relations are practiced and defended in spaces often dismissed as marginal: in libraries, housing struggles, accessibility audits, creative practice, and collective organizing. Taken together, these works insist that critical urban scholarship cannot remain detached from the conditions it analyzes. It must remain accountable to those who live at the sharpest edges of contemporary urban restructuring,...

Learning From Los Angeles: An Interview with LA Tenants Union Co-Founder, Tracy Rosenthal

Thu, 6 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Interview with writer, journalist, and organizer Tracy J. Rosenthal about their new book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. In it, we talked about their experience co-founding the LA Tenants Union, the history of working class movements in LA, and the synergies between environmental and tenant activism in light of the LA wildfires. The conversation was motivated by a central puzzle: Los Angeles takes up a large role in urban theory, especially the neo-Marxist school of the 1970s, and those descriptions of the city are deeply cynical. Classic accounts emphasize policing, elite “pleasure domes,” and hostility to working-class people and their movements. At the same time, it is the locus of Rosenthal's efforts, and the largest tenants’ union in the country. We spoke in depth about the opportunities and challenges of organizing in this geography, and how place affected Rosenthal's and their comrades’ strategies.

Interloper

Thu, 6 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Interloper

Writing and Witnessing

Thu, 6 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Writing and Witnessing

How Lobbying Rewrote Land Value Capture in Mexico City’s 2017 Constitution

Tue, 4 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper examines how lobbying redirected Land Value Capture (LVC) during Mexico City’s 2016 constitution-drafting process by acting at procedural margins and legislative stages. Using process tracing of drafts, committee reports, floor records, temporary provisions, and media, it reconstructs the sequence: the committee added LVC duties tied to areas of influence; early floor debate removed them; a late compromise adopted weaker mitigation language; a temporary article reset thresholds to existing regulatory limits; later, criteria were delegated to executive agencies. It also shows that the participatory phase expanded input but did not carry into bargaining, limiting citizen influence when decisions were made. The findings indicate agenda control by organized real estate interests that converted enforceable capture into mitigation and shifted the fiscal burden away from redistribution, with disproportionate impacts on renters and low-income districts at the urban fringe.

Liberated Zones: Making the University in the Time of Fascism

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Over the past ten years, we have endeavored to build a liberated zone within our university. The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy is a tiny (but we think mighty) center that undertakes research and scholarship for the purpose of dismantling structures of inequality and creating reparative public goods. We do so by accompanying social movements and communities on the frontlines of dispossession and displacement through practices of research justice. In May 2025, we invited Naomi Klein to deliver the Institute’s Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing because she embodies the ethos of the Institute. Klein’s magisterial text, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, published in 2007 and translated into scores of languages, has given us all unprecedented insight into how world-ending activities are made profitable. It demands that we take seriously the crises wrought by the unending emergency that is racial capitalism and the capitalization of...

Accessibility Auditing: Four Case Studies

Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The accessibility audit is a largely underutilized tool of disabled community engagement in the design process. This essay shares four case studies of accessibility audits facilitated between 2021 and 2024 for four separate groups of landscape architects, designers, and students. Its methodology is centered in disability justice and crip theory. In the attempt to illustrate how to conduct an accessibility audit by including direct participation of disabled stakeholders and disabled designers and experts, the goal is to assist the landscape architecture and urban design professions in deviating from the usage of sensitivity studies (or disability simulations), which are inappropriate, misguided, and outdated attempts at measuring site accessibility. In this way, designers and students might learn to prioritize disabled lived experience in the design process.

Spatial Imaginaries and Propertied Realities: Understanding How Property and Highway Planning Are Tangled up in Urban Planning’s Whiteness Problem

Fri, 1 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Scholars have readily illustrated how European settlers’ colonial ideas of property influenced the formation of race. Yet, as the role of land and property changed within an American context, so too did the relationship between race and property. With emancipation and urbanization, cities began to confront racial mixing, leading to a movement to racialize not just individual property, but also entire places. This resulting racialization of place became acutely challenging for communities of color in the mid-century with the implementation of the new interstate highway system. While the disastrous impact of the highway system on communities of color has been increasingly researched, scholars have paid far less attention to how race shaped individuals’ propertied realities in the face of these federal and local actions. Using Austin, Texas, as a case study, I examine how the planning for the Interregional Highway 35 (IH-35) threatened Anglo, Black, and Mexican East Austin residents’...

Book Review: Megan Kimble, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

People cannot be economically mobile if they are not able to be mobile. People cannot access employment, healthcare, or education if they cannot get there. Transportation policy and decision-making has been dominated by white, male, able-bodied, cisgender engineers (Frisch, 2002; Lowe, 2021). As a result, many of the decisions made by transportation policymakers lack the grounding in racial justice or the life experiences of the most vulnerable users (Barajas, 2021; Frisch, 2002; Lowe, 2021; Lowe et al., 2023; Vigar, 2017). In City Limits, Megan Kimble aims to pull back the curtain on transportation decision-making and the effects of those decisions as she takes the reader through the journey of how a highway gets built and who it violently destroys in the process. Divided into three sections, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways, uses three Texas cities and freeways as case studies to detail the fight for and against Houston’s...

Book Review: Lindsey Dillon, Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This is a review of geographer Lindsey Dillon's 2024 book Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco. A majority of the book describes remediation following the designation of a former Naval shipyard for Superfund. But Dillon provincializes the US Navy as one in a series of polluters who produced southeastern San Francisco as a wasteland (Voyles, 2015) and, consequently, as one of several political bodies invested in its quick conversion into developable land. Against the displacing forces of redevelopment, Dillon charts a continuous history of Black-led activism. Since the 1960s, Black activists in southeastern SF understood housing, health care, and jobs as fundamentally environmental issues. Dillon argues that we understand their efforts at “counterplanning” as environmental justice work that precedes and exceeds the field’s codification in the 1980s and 90s.

The book’s third chapter, “The Politics of Environmental Repair”...

Beyond the Desk: Librarians as Keepers of Public Space

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Increased population and need for public services, coupled with a lack of public spaces have driven the Los Angeles Central Library to evolve over time, offering civic resources and becoming a communal place that goes beyond the traditional understanding of a library. Despite decreased staffing, the connection to and provision of services from the library to external spaces—both physical and virtual—has increased dramatically. The institution continues to adapt to the dynamic social, economic, and climatic needs of its patrons, especially those most vulnerable among Angelenos. The Central Library and the librarians who sustain it occupy a space between public commons, civil refuge, social services coordinator, and educational resource conglomerate. As public spaces become less accessible, library patrons have more frequently sought access to social and technical services in the Central Library.

We seek to understand the Central Library’s role in providing essential public...

Housing Development Opportunity

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Housing Development Opportunity

Open Pandora’s Box

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Open Pandora’s Box

Architecture and the Accessory Dwelling Unit Revolution: Perspectives from Builders

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Since the passage of AB2299 in 2017, Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) production in California has grown significantly. Along with the goals of increasing supply of infill rental housing, targeting new housing units in single-family zoned neighborhoods, and improving affordability, AB2299 intended to create new opportunities primarily for smaller, younger, more diverse, and more innovative building firms. To evaluate this last goal, we conducted ten interviews with three categories of building firms in Los Angeles. We find that architects, contractors, and technology companies see ADUs differently, that there is significant interest in building ADUs but few inquiries turn into finished buildings, and that there are consensus policy proposals in the building industry to produce more. Furthermore, analyzing across interviewees we find that successful ADU builders utilize a production model predicated on standardizing construction elements and processes,partnering with select contractors...

Introduction

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction to Critical Planning Journal Volume 27: Open.

The Open Spaces of Post-Earthquake Skopje: A Planning Strategy for Architecture Beyond Capitalism

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On July 26, 1963, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake devastated the city of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, one of the six Yugoslavian republics. This initiated a multilateral reconstruction effort that saw international experts lend support to local teams of architects and planners. The resulting plan (the Urban Plan Project, or UPP) focused on the development of neighborhood units, as well as the propagationof ample “open green spaces” to provide higher standards of living to the inhabitants. This paper draws a connection between the open spaces of Skopje andthe theories of Henri Lefebvre concerning concrete utopia and habitation, to show that beyond purely utilitarian reasons, the open spaces reflected a search for new socialist urbanities in Yugoslavia and allowed for architectural experimentation. The resulting plan reveals a model for planning and architectural practices as disaster relief, and illustrates a collaborative and self-managed working methodology, which makes it a...

Reframing Urban Agriculture: Open Land for the Public Good

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This essay uses the lens of historical-structural analysis to examine how the history of municipal land use policies and urban agriculture in the U.S. informed the policy design of California’s Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones (“UAIZs”) and their resulting failure to increase land access and security for community food producers. It argues that UAIZs sit at the end of a long history of lot conversion programs that have been used for urban crisis management in the U.S. In this process, the essay examines the role that land insecurity has played in redevelopment and land commodification and financialization more broadly, how equitable urban agriculture requires both rearticulating the functions that community food production play in cities and reasserting the right not only to occupy but to manage land in a way that serves one’s community (land equity), and why practitioners and researchers need to reframe the questions they ask when designing food systems policies and research.

DC State of Mind

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

DC State of Mind

Volume 27: Open

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Critical Planning Journal Volume 27: Open

Pershing Square: A History of Plans, Designers, and Publics

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Pershing Square, located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, has transformed several times over its 150-year history. Its design iterations throughout time have mirrored the city’s own transformations, growth, and community’s self-image. I retrace the history of civic attempts to renovate Pershing Square, starting from the 1910s through to the present. By examining the events and battles over control of its design, I use Pershing Square as a lens for understanding larger trends in the practice of urban design, city planning, and politics in Los Angeles. In particular, I focus on the shifts in influence among various design professions, and I consider the tensions between the prevailing practice of urban design by this professional class and the growing imperative for public participation in public space design. I also examine how the most recent attempts to remake Pershing Square are emblematic of two paradigms in urban design: landscape urbanism and placemaking.

Cover, Contributors and Contents

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Cover, Contrubutors and Contents

Archi-Techno: World2World Building

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Archi-Techno: World2World Building

Opacity and Porosity: Space, Time, and Body in the Age of Ultra-capitalism

Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We have entered an era that David Harvey (1989) has coined “time-space compression,” which refers to the reduced production time and spatial barriers as a result of advanced capitalism. This phenomenon inaugurates the opacity in the urban — the concealed and asymmetrical power geometry, and the homogenization of cities. Porosity brought by Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis (1925) in their writingon Naples, on the other hand, depicts urban cities with interpenetration and heterogeneity, resisting any fixedness. Starting from personal memories in Shenzhen, China, this essay proposes that the city can be seen as an urban space where opacity and porosity coexist and mingle with one another, which dissolves the dichotomous rural-urban configuration in cities. In this sense, Shenzhen is fused with tensions between two forces: capitalist modernization and standardizedlandscapes that alienate and homogenize lives andexperiences; and porous cultures and everydayness inthe urban villages...

Volume 26: Just Futures

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Volume 26: Just Futures

American Cities Made and Remembered

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Everything is a line. Every boundary, bridge, freeway and river. Yet these lines are not ours — they have been drawn for us, and they shape the policies that determine our lives. While the drawing of lines is inherently consequential, it is often difficult to isolate, identify or hold accountable their individual authors. The borders and policies dictated by these lines are the continuation of centuries-old colonial systems that keep white supremacist power structures firmly in place.

Cover, Contributors and Contents

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Cover, Contributors and Contents

A Planning Mixtape: Black Healing (Matters), Housing, and the Prison Nation

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The ability to easily secure housing and pass it down to accumulate generational wealth is a luxury that white descendants have long enjoyed — yet it has all but escaped their Black counterparts. In an effort to acknowledge the challenges facing Black people, particularly Black women historically and to the present day, this essay provides an analysis through a Black feminist lens and serves as a piece of academic activism. Utilizing the methodology of Black Girl Cartography, concern is cited specifically for the ways in which Black women are situated in place and space. To that end, this essay focuses on housing as a theme and addresses the subtopics of neighborhood, substandard housing, housing instability, and housing affordability as interventions.

Fungal Resilience

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Fungal Resilience

Marty Wachs in Memoriam

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Marty Wachs in Memoriam

Can Planning Be Saved?

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Can Planning Be Saved?

Lab to Table: Meat Culture in Los Angeles

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Lab to Table: Meat Culture in Los Angeles

Introduction

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Borderless Beings

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Borderless Beings

The Water Impacts of Establishing an Equitable Tree Canopy for Los Angeles

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Extreme heat as a result of climate change is already being felt in Los Angeles and will only increase throughout the century. Not all residents of Los Angeles feel these effects equally. Shaded areas provide valuable relief from the heat, but the shade provided by street trees has historically been concentrated in certain communities and excluded from others. To create a just future in the face of climate change, all communities must have the resources to maintain habitable conditions, including shade trees. Establishing the number of trees required to build an equitable tree canopy for the city requires another scarce resource: water. This paper analyzes the amount of water and associated impacts required to establish an equitable tree canopy in Los Angeles through a lens of distributive justice. I conclude that, from a water standpoint, the benefits of increased tree canopy outweigh the energy, financial, and supply costs needed to achieve a more equitable tree canopy.

The Playboy Mansion Must Be Destroyed

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A just future is within reach for UCLA’s Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. To achieve this end, the Playboy Mansion must be destroyed. This essay will present the Mansion’s history to explain why in terms of socio-sexual justice, then recommend how to execute demolition in order to avoid repeating the mistakes that have left Westwood’s residential space so misallocated. Neither private nor public agencies have the capacity to mark the Mansion for demolition without re-enclosing this property for the purposes of elites. Only the people themselves can destroy the Playboy Mansion in a way that will guarantee this land’s future uses as a common good.

Evaluating Meaningful Engagement Under Environmental Justice Mandates: A Case Study of California’s SB1000 Implementation in Santa Ana

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

California Senate Bill 1000 (2016) requires that general plans include environmental justice strategies and policies that address the needs of Disadvantaged Communities (DACs). This article draws upon principles for engagement developed by environmental justice activists to explore Santa Ana’s 2014-2020 general plan update and understand whether SB1000 contributed to meaningful engagement in DACs. A review of planning documents and interviews with key informants reveals that the initial general plan framework was captured by NIMBYs and that the City was unable to pivot to meet SB1000 mandates. Moreover, the City resisted activist and State demands to halt general plan adoption amid COVID-19. Ultimately, in the case of Santa Ana, SB1000 has not led to meaningful engagement with disadvantaged communities.

The Pedagogy of Talking Back: Challenging the Modernist Ideologies of the Murphy Sculpture Garden Through Contemporary Definitions and Practices of Public Art

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Though widely celebrated as a masterpiece, the Murphy Sculpture Garden raises important questions about the role of art in public space today. How do we define public art? When is it art, and what exactly makes it public? Growing scholarship in urban studies, fine art, historical preservation, and social sciences suggests that the paradigms for public art are shifting. While societal values and environmental circumstances change with time, many existing public artworks endure, unchanged and unchallenged, as if frozen in perpetuity. The Murphy Sculpture Garden cannot be experienced or understood as it was conceived almost 60 years ago. Using the sculpture garden as a case study, this article examines emerging theories, competing definitions, key paradigms, and ongoing tensions in the discourse of public art.

Changing the Plan: How “Feminist Cities” and Feminist Political Ecology Can Inform More Equitable and Climate- Just City Planning Practice

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This essay seeks to identify “feminist cities” and intersectional feminist-informed planning practice as one framework to achieve climate justice in an urban planning context. Planning for a climate-changed future will require an intent focus on adaptability and a critical, intersectional feminist approach, both in our planning for climate impacts and our ability to adapt to new and changing urban problems. By centering climate-feminist solutions in our planning efforts, we can embrace transformational planning models and dare to imagine a future worth planning for.

The El Segundo Refinery: Whiteness, Imperialist Expansion and Extractive Infrastructures

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Planning for racially just futures requires reckoning with and unlearning practices of whiteness embedded within histories and theories of planning. Through archival and policy research, this historical-structural analysis identifies the El Segundo Chevron oil refinery as a center of racial capitalism and imperialism. The refinery’s formation in 1911 was not only enabled by racially exclusive policy, but also shaped the City of El Segundo through the consolidation of corporate political power at the local level. Sites of extraction, from Los Angeles to the Amazon, reveal historic and ongoing injustices, which built environment disciplines must confront in order to move forward in solidarity.

Rest in Peace and Power

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

VC Powe, in memoriam

The Winter Quarters (continued)

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Photo series

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Article, Poetry, and Photo Essay Table of Contents

LA is Better When We Ride Together

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Poem

Sounds of Home

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Podcast accompaniment

Introduction

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction to Critical Planning Volume 25, Planning in Crisis

The Winter Quarters

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Winter Quarters

Critical Planning: Volume 25

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Critical Planning, Volume 25, all articles

Front Matter

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Front Matter

Remembering Leobardo Estrada, 1945-2018

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In Memoriam, Leobardo Estrada

Running Around the City

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Poem

Where There is Smoke There is Fire: Scenes From Southern California, Summer 2020

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Photo essay

Return of the Jitneys: How Transportation Neoliberals Never Waste A Good Crisis

Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents a history of jitneys from the Gilded Age streets until their return to discourse among post-1970s transportation neoliberals. Transportation neoliberals were an intellectual set including professors, policymakers, consultants, and con men. They discovered the history of jitneys, which Southern Californians invented during a wartime slump in global commerce in 1914. Abolished in the U.S., jitneys remained in operation in crisis-prone cities like Manila and Harare. Selective memories of jitneys in an age of austere state budgets contributed to the trade’s return as a cheap, unregulated alternative to public transit. History was the tool that led jitneys, in the guise of Lyft and Uber, back into U.S. streets after the global financial crisis.

Planning, Violence, and Crisis in Sociohistorical Perspective: Crime, Capital, Commodities, and Cartelization in Tancítaro, Michoacán

Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Social life in Mexico’s state of Michoacán is consumed by a crisis of violence. Foregrounding critical planning, this paper presents a grounded local history of the municipality of Tancítaro, Michoacán, which has the largest concentration of avocado production globally, and analyzes violence there in light of the production of space, uneven development, and the spatial politics of land. This quantitative and archival research, coupled with theoretical explanations on violence, suggests that considerations of crises and planning require situated analyses with ethnographic methods and embedded fieldwork that cross geographic scales and disciplinary boundaries as they foreground perspectives of affected community residents.

Feeding the Urban Leviathan

Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Mexico City, a crowded and sprawling metropolis of 22 million residents, is not only one of the world’s most populated urban settlements but also one of the most vulnerable. Overburdened by a centuries-long series of compounding crises, Mexico City has always lived on the verge of an imminent and irreversible collapse. Water scarcity, floods, earthquakes, pollution, violence, traffic, overpopulation, and health issues have all taken their toll on a city that has, nonetheless and against all odds, managed to survive. When the first wave of COVID-19 hit in early 2020, Mexico City faced a hitherto overlooked threat: food insecurity. One of the communities hardest hit by the pandemic was the central wholesale market, Central de Abasto , which controls 80 percent of the food bought, sold, and consumed throughout the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico. This article takes a close look at the political, economic, and ideological causes and...

(Dis)possession: The Historic Development of View Park and Los Angeles’ Ongoing Housing Crisis

Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Considering the national awakening to the pervasiveness of racial violence, historical acts of planning must be examined for how they have concretized racial inequalities in the built environment. This paper engages with Critical Race Theory to consider how the historical development of the View Park subdivision of Los Angeles contributed to the materialization of White Supremacy. The developer’s plan for the fully improved, racially and socioeconomically restricted subdivision of View Park, especially when compared to its plans for subdivisions intended for Black and working-class persons, illustrates how possession was achieved by design for the exclusive use of White persons through disinvestment in non-White communities.

Seeking Landed Security in (De)Industrialized Detroit and (Post)Colonial Mexican Ejidos

Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The utility of land as a form of security is nothing new; however, the exact interpretation of “security” has shifted during times of crisis. Security through landedness can mean grounds from which to extract resources; a commodity to be bought, managed, and sold; a tract from which to draw sustenance; or a space for habitation and community building. This essay explores these many conflicting fluctuations in the identity projected upon land, by both the state and private interests, through the rise and fall of two specific patterns of land tenure: the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and the agrarian, communal ejidal settlements of Mexico.

DEATH AND LIFE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN LANDSCAPES: HOW TRADITIONAL PLANNING’S FAILURES FRAGMENT RURAL WESTERN PLACES

Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The planning profession has focused on the problems of urban areas and largely ignored issues of rural areas. Within the profession, rural places are most often seen as those yet to become urban. In doing so, planners have not only ignored the needs of rural populations but also the importance of rural landscapes for food production. Cheaper lands in rural areas, especially near recreational amenities, have become popular destinations for relatively wealthy exurbanites searching for an escape from the extreme housing prices and congestion of urban areas.

This paper highlights not only the planning crisis in rural areas, but also how the conversion of rural land and the loss of productive lands in rural places is directly driven by poorly considered application of traditional planning tools. This paper argues that if we continue to use urban planning tools to address rural issues, planners will have actively contributed to the demise of these rural landscapes. Rural contexts...

A PARTICIPAÇÃO POPULAR COMO CAMINHO PARA UMA REGULARIZAÇÃO FUNDIÁRIA TRANSFORMADORA: O CASO DE FORTALEZA

Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The right to housing is a constitutional right in Brazil. In order for it to be fully complied with, the Estatuto da Cidade provides tools for democratic public administration, one of which is land regularization. However, in the urban policies of Fortaleza, a certain selectivity has been observed in what is considered subject to regularization, losing its transformative potential. This happens when initiatives to make regulations more flexible in response to demands of large economic groups are prioritized- contradicting the understanding of the social function of urban property. This work seeks to analyze land regularization initiatives in the city, and to what extent their transformative potential relies on popular participation.

O direito à moradia é um direito constitucional. A fim de que ele seja cumprido de forma plena, o Estatuto da Cidade prevê ferramentas de gestão democrática, sendo uma delas a regularização fundiária. A aplicação de sua função...

THE LOWER ATHABASCA REGIONAL PLAN’S FUTURE IS HISTORY