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February is African-American History Month: Urban planning history -- the attempt to make Roxbury a separate city from Boston

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And how Black elected leadership didn't make a lot of difference to urban outcomes compared to their more recent white predecessors. Exploring Municipal Incorporation as a Mechanism of Racial and Economic Exclusion in Suburban Communities ," Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences).

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

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Instead the whole process is incredibly acrimonious at all scales, with neighborhood plans, and with proposed changes to the general zoning code, and still, despite the seven years and counting all the work that's gone into it, the proposed new code lacks a robust framework and foundation. Other gaps in the planning process.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Rational planning is pretty static at least to me, with constrained scopes and less willingness to change approaches and recommendations as new information is uncovered. Once too, I misheard a presentation at a conference, and I thought the presenter said she applies "graphic design" approaches to urban planning.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

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However, according to the AIA, now 50% of students in architecture programs are women, and the organization is now sponsoring an annual Women's Leadership Summit, which this year is in June in Miami. For the most part, links have not been checked. March is Women's History Month and Sunday March 8th is International Women's Day 2020.