‘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.
Intercultural City
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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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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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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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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 […]
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Wrestling with Growth, Equity, and Sustainability
This post is inspired by a historic convening of Denver’s last four mayors for a keynote panel discussion at the 2017 Sustainable Denver Summit held on December 5, 2017. The summit’s theme was “Growing Responsibly.” This annual event set new […]
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Archaeology, Ancient Urbanism, and Cultural Heritage in Peru
Guest Post by Gracie Rouse Gracie Rouse is a University of Denver undergraduate student who took my course, The Ancient City, in winter quarter 2016. Gracie’s project for that class was on the site of Great Zimbabwe in Africa. Here, […]
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Aurora Rising
One of the great revelations of the 2017 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (RMLUI) annual conference on “Creating Inclusive Communities” that I wrote about here was learning more about Denver’s rapidly urbanizing neighbor to the east. Given its burgeoning immigrant […]
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Has Placemaking Become Cliché?
The question of my title is the one I’m asking myself after attending public presentations by four planning and design firms invited to the University of Denver (DU) as finalists for a project to improve physical and social connections between […]