Category: Urban Planning
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The City Corner, a Crux and Axis
Read more: The City Corner, a Crux and AxisDetroit is a unique city in that, aesthetically, it’s not a city at all. It looks, to an eye trained for urban markers, like a suburb which has a size problem and unusual industrial impact. Few commercial corridors exist in relation to the sprawling expanse of yarded homes; of those which do exist, even fewer…
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The Master’s Tools: Subversive Planning in the Self-Help Revolution
Read more: The Master’s Tools: Subversive Planning in the Self-Help RevolutionNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a [hu]man, you take it.-Malcolm X Introduction There is no planning that is separate from the essential function to make the human experience better: this inherently requires equity and justice. There are many divergent beliefs in how “better” may…
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Geddes Out of Tucson: A Desert Region and Its City
Read more: Geddes Out of Tucson: A Desert Region and Its CityIntroduction This article considers Tucson, Arizona through the lens of Patrick Geddes’ urban philosophy and methods. It is organized within his trinity rubric of lieu, travail and famille, first presenting a sampling of background information not meant to be exhaustive, but to create an impression of the city. This information entails primarily ethnographic observation, or…
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The Space Isn’t Fixed with Flows
Read more: The Space Isn’t Fixed with FlowsBoth Harvey and Castells discuss the relationship between space and socioeconomics. Harvey approaches the question through the lens of Marx’s spatial fix, examining the potential of using imperialism as a means to resolve systemic failures in capitalism. Castells considers the question by adding time to the mix of space and production, and analyzes how technology…
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German School vs Chicago School – filtered a bit through an IP lens
Read more: German School vs Chicago School – filtered a bit through an IP lensIt’s interesting that although the “German School” and the “Chicago School” are presented as discrete, as many of the scholars later associated with the early Chicago School also came from Germany and presumably were (in)formed by the same temporal milieu. Consistent with the discourse of their day, many of the early scholars from both schools…
