Telling the Story of Cities
As we come to the end of this fall semester and we get ready for the end-of-the-year holidays and winter break, the Wagner Planner team turned to our professors and staff to ask: “What were your favorite reads of 2020?” Here are their picks and why. Enjoy! Carter Strickland, Urban Planning Adjunct Assistant Professor… Read more What Our Faculty & Staff Have Been Reading: 2020 Holiday Edition
Each Friday, the Wagner Planner editorial board will publish a news roundup of recent planning news. Topics range the gamut of urban planning concentrations, but will mostly be at the discretion of the editor. Note: This will be the last news roundup for this term. We’ll return in spring 2021 – we hope to see… Read more What We’re Reading (12/18/2020)
by Samantha Sánchez Trigger warning– The following article mentions police brutality against Black communities, police misconduct accounts, and crime statistics. Please consider this warning before continuing. Nationwide, police departments have been a topic of discussion throughout 2020. Beginning in March with the murder of Breonna Taylor by the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky, to… Read more Can We Reimagine the Cultivation and Distribution of NYPD Data?
by Lisa Nyamadzawo Participatory concepts and frameworks are increasingly gaining popularity and prominence in urban planning and have been oversubscribed across the globe. This is a widespread acknowledgment that residents should be defining the physical development agenda of their physical and social spaces. Laura Puttkamer argues that- “People should be the heart of any planning… Read more The Paradox of Participatory Planning in Urban Planning
Each Friday, the Wagner Planner editorial board will publish a news roundup of recent planning news. Topics range the gamut of urban planning concentrations, but will mostly be at the discretion of the editor. Jane Jacobs v. Robert Moses—the story is more surprising than you think “Jane Jacobs wasn’t opposed to data-driven decisions, she just… Read more What We’re Reading (12/11/2020)