‘First Cities’ Published!
I’m happy to announce that the book is available to freely access online and download until April 17, 2024. The link is here. The print version costs $22.00.
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New Book: ‘First Cities’ and Planning Lessons for the 21st Century
The 22-month hiatus between our last post and this one is explained by many interruptions: required updating of the courses I teach in subject areas where knowledge accumulates at a very rapid rate, unusually heavy university committee work, and collaborative […]
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The Contradictions of Urban Planning and the Proposed East Bank (Aurora, Colorado) Shopping Center Development
The following is a Guest Post by Kyle Cascioli, a long-time colleague with whom I’ve collaborated on numerous opinion pieces about urban development in the greater Denver metro region (all can be found on this blog). Kyle’s short commentary addresses […]
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Deep History, Ancient Wisdom, and Modern Planning
Deep history—defined here as the entirety of Homo sapiens’ 300,000+ years of existence on the planet—is a favorite subject for best-selling authors and wannabes worldwide. A new book by David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of […]
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Book Talk Available Online
The video, audio, and transcript of an invited talk about my book Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day that I gave for the Cities@Tufts Lecture Series in October 2020 is now available at Shareable.
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Decolonizing the Settler City
This year witnessed the timely launch, against the backdrop of dramatic anti-racism insurgencies, of a new journal: the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City (JREC). The journal’s editors rightly identify race and ethnicity as concepts that are fundamental to understanding cities […]
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Anti-Racist Planning: A View from Elsewhere
The systemic violence being committed against Black Americans in our cities has prompted much soul searching and table pounding about racial inequalities in urban planning education and practice. Many are the calls for radical change in how urban planners and […]
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Monuments Matter: On the Destruction of Denver’s Public Statuary
A couple of the more controversial of these statues came down in the last few days, as part of the anti-racism and anti-monument fervor that’s now sweeping the country. I welcome such fervor and ferment. I’ve taught courses promoting anti-racism […]
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Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day
The title of this post is the title of a book I’ve written that will be published by Zed Books this summer or early fall in its series on Just Sustainabilities, edited by Julian Agyeman. The book has been almost two […]
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Checklist for a Sustainable Smart City
Given widespread scholarly and popular interest in smart and sustainable cities, Intercultural Urbanism is pleased to post the following infographic courtesy of Citybase. Comments welcome!
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Expanding Thought About Cities, Sustainability, and Social Justice
The following essay was solicited and published by the University Denver Newsroom ahead of the university’s 17th annual Diversity Summit held on January 25-26, 2018. It offers a perspective on the summit theme dealing with the overlap between environmental and social […]
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Planning, Placemaking, and the Public Good
The planning and placemaking of interest in this essay is that undertaken by colleges and universities. The essay is inspired by questions posed exactly one year ago in a Chronicle of Higher Education special issue about cities (see especially “The Neighborhood University“). Contributors […]