January 2021
- How Fear Took Over the American Suburbs, January 14, 2021. CityLab
- San Luis Obispo Council Accepts Recommendations Offered by the City’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force, January 12, 2021, PublicCEO
- How the Capitol Insurrection Should Have Been Handled, According to Police Leaders, January 8, 2021, CityLab
- Eliminating Racial Segregation Is Good Economic Policy, APA’s Planning Magazine, Winter 2021
- 2021 Will Be the Year of Guaranteed Income Experiments, January 4, 2021, CityLab
- The Pandemic Disproved Urban Progressives’ Theory About Gentrification, January 2, 2020, The Atlantic
December 2020
- The Year Inequality Became Less Visible, and More Visible Than Ever. December 28, 2020, New York Times.
- Why Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Federal Building Order May Be Here to Stay, December 23, 2020, CityLab
- How The Pandemic Is Forcing Women Out of the Workforce, Explained In a Comic, December 22, 2020, Vox
- As Homelessness Rises in Seattle, So Does a Native American Housing Solution, December 17, 2020, CityLab
- The Right to Flush and Forget, December 15, 2020, CityLab
- Trapped at Home in the Pandemic With Mold and a Leaky Roof, December 15, 2020, New York Times
- How to Diversify Trump County, December 11, 2020, CityLab
- NYC’s Struggling Street Vendors Confront Their Worst-Ever Crisis, December 10, 2020, CityLab
- Limits On Zoning Cited For Marin’s High Segregation, December 8, 2020, San Francisco Chronicle
- Jennifer Rangel: Creating Bilingual Cartoons to Teach Zoning 101, December 7, 2020, Salud America!
- In Many Cities, Climate Change Will Flood Affordable Housing, December 1, 2020 CityLab
November 2020
- Public Spaces Are Essential – But Not Yet Equal, November 30, 2020, City Monitor
- Paving Equity Into the Streets of Oakland, Transfers Magazine, Issue 2, Fall 2020
- In U.S. Cities, The Health Effects Of Past Housing Discrimination Are Plain To See, November 19, 2020, NPR
- ‘Tree Equity’: U.S. Cities Urged To Focus Planting In Areas Most At Risk, November 17, 2020, Reuters
- As Communities Suffer, Local Officials Struggle to Disburse Federal Aid. Now, a Deadline Looms, November 15, 2020, Washington Post
- Chicago’s Mayor Turns City’s Infrastructure Into Weapons Against Protesters, November 13, 2020, The Appeal
- Disinvested: How Government and Private Industry Let the Main Street of a Black Neighborhood Crumble, November 11, 2020, ProPublica
- Are We Planning for Equity? Equity Goals and Recommendations in Local Comprehensive Plans, November 3, 2020, Journal of American Planning Association.
- Failure on Fiscal Relief Will Widen Racial Inequality, November 2, 2020, Bloomberg
- Why Racial Inequities In America’s Schools Are Rooted In Housing Policies Of The Past, November 2, 2020 USA Today
- Advancing Racial Equity in Local Government, November 1, 2020, Western City
October 2020
- Court Complaint Accuses Redfin’s ‘Minimum Price Policy’ of Redlining Minority Neighborhoods, October 30, 2020, Planetizen
- Chula Vista, Oakland, And Stockton Selected to Participate In Bloomberg Program To Advance Equity And Economic Recovery, October 29, 2020, League of California Cities
- Houston’s Bid For Park Equity, October 28, 2020, City Monitor
- Portland Is Rebuilding A Neighborhood Destroyed By Highways And Racist Land-Use Policies, October 21, 2020, Western Bike Works
- Economist Found $16 Trillion When She Tallied Cost of Racial Bias, October 20, 2020, Bloomberg Businessweek
- Atascadero Landowners Can Remove Any ‘Morally Repugnant’ Racial Bias In Property Deeds At Zero Cost, October 20, 2020, PublicCEO.com
- To Lift Up Communities of Color, Fix Public Transit, October 19, 2020, CityLab
- New York City Rides Out an Unprecedented Transit Crisis – Mass Transit’s Role in Racial Justice, October 19, 2020, CityLab
- 9 Reasons to Eliminate Jaywalking Laws Now, October 16, 2020, CityLab
- A City’s Surface Reflects Its Inequities, October 16, 2020, Metropolis
- Filmmakers unearth a long trail of racism in ‘Driving While Black, October 12, CNN
- New California Reopening Rules Require ‘Equity’ Measure, October 2, 2020, AP News
- Unsheltered In Place, October 1, 2020, Mother Jones
- The Americans Who Could Be Stranded by Transit Cuts, October 1, 2020, CityLab
September 2020
- On Streets of Injustice, Here’s How We Move toward Transportation Equity for Latinos, September 30, 2020, Salud America!
- Denver Wants to Fix a Legacy of Environmental Racism, September 30, 2020 New York Times
- Cleveland Clinic Thrives While Its Black Neighbors Fall Behind, September 29, 2020, Bloomberg Businessweek.
- How to Make Sure City Budgets Prioritize Racial Equity, September 28, 2020, CityLab
- The Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Systemic Racism in Urban Environments, September 18, 2020, Science
- The Coronavirus Will Impact City Government Long After the Pandemic Is Over, September 17, 2020, PublicCEO.com
- Can ‘Equitable’ City Planning Bridge LA’s Gaping Divide?, September 13, 2020, Crosstown
- The Case For AfroUrbanism, September 8, 2020, Public Square
- Workplace Diversity Goes Far Past Hiring. How Leaders Can Support Employees Of Color, September 7, 2020, NPR
- White People Have Gentrified Black Lives Matter, September 4, 2020, Los Angeles Times
- American Environmentalism’s Racist Roots Have Shaped Global Thinking About Conservation, September 2, 2020, The Conversation
- An Alleged Bike Violation Brings on a Police Shooting of a Black Man, September 1, 2020, CityLab
August 2020
- Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals, August 25, 2020, New York Times
- Marsha Jackson Is Trying To Move Shingle Mountain: The Illegal Dump Is Southern Dallas’ Most Visible Environmental Justice Crisis, August 25, 2020, The Texas Observer
- How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering, [Interactive piece between redlinging and urban heat], August 24, 2020, New York Times
- Rethinking the 20-minute city in light of police shootings, COVID-19, August 23, 2020, Smart Cities Dive
- Rent Control is a Disincentive to build Affordable Housing, August 22, 2020, CalMatters
- Housing will Test White Support for Black Lives, August 21, 2020, Boston Globe
- Meet the Black Design Collective Reimagining How Cities Get Built, August 17, 2020, Fast Company
- Residential Segregation Plays a Role in Coronavirus Disparities, Study Finds, August 17, 2020, Washington Post
- The Black Lives Next Door – Case of City of San Mateo, August 14, 2020, New York Times
- Systemic Racism Has Consequences for All Life In Cities, August 13, 2020, Science Daily
- A Radical Movement to Take Back Our Cities, August 11, 2020, New Republic
- Street Vending at Lake Merritt: Race, Space, and COVID-19, August 7, 2020, Oaklandside
- City Planners’ Case For Defunding the Police, August 6, 2020, Bloomberg CityLab
July 2020
- Killer Heat: US Racial Injustices will Worsen as Climate Crisis Escalates, July 29, 2020, The Guardian
- How Urban Planning is a Tool of White Supremacy: This is the Other Lesson from Minneapolis, July 29, 2020, Fast Company
- Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back. July 28, 2020, New York Times Magazine
- The Great Debate: Will the Pandemic Alter the Course of Urbanism? July 27, 2020 Planetizen
- What It Takes to Preserve a Building Tied to Black History, July 27, 2020 Bloomberg CityLab
- Opinion: Urbanism is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism — And Reparations Have a Place in the Built Environment, July 27, 2020, StreetsBlog USA
- Black MTS Riders Cited Disproportionately, July 27, 2020, Voice of San Diego
- New York City Reopening Splits Along Lines of Wealth and Race, July 24, 2020, Bloomberg
- Why Blacks have Faced a Gap in Homeownership, Washington Post, July 23, 2020
- The Black Lives Matter Movement Is Being Written Into the Streetscape, The Atlantic, July 22, 2020
- Anti-Asian and anti-Black racial housing covenants can still be found in the Bay Area. Why? July 22, 2020, San Francisco Chronicle
- How Discussions of ‘Neighborhood Character’ Reinforce Structural Racism, July 17, 2020, Rewire
- Embedding Racial Equity in Housing, July 9, 2020, CitiesSpeak (National League of Cities)
- How to Design a Post Pandemic City, Bloomberg City Lab, July 14, 2020
- Equity, race, and placemaking: Reimagining how business improvement districts use their power, Public Square, July 8, 2020
- Eight incremental development policies to help bridge the wealth gap, Public Square, July 2020
- The Eviction Time-Bomb, Working Partnerships, July 2020
June 2020
- To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space: Urban Inequality Didn’t Happen by Accident. June 20, 2020, The Atlantic
- Nine ideas for making our city’s public space more race equitable, June 18, 2020, LA
- America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress Bryan Lee Jr, CityLab, June 2020
- Black Landscapes Matter, Kofi Boone, Ground Up (Journal of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley)
- How Urban Design Can Make or Break Protests, Smithsonian, June 2020
- Racial Equity and Urban Climate Action Planetizen, June 2020
- Safe Streets are Not Safe for Black Lives Destiny Thomas, CityLab, June 2020
- Want to tear down insidious monuments to racism and segregation? Bulldoze L.A. Freeways, LA Times, June 2020
- What’s Next? Envisioning An Equitable Economy Post Covid-19 & Systemic Racism With Dr. Manuel Pastor, Forbes, June 2020
- Whose Streets? Black Streets by Amina Yasin, The Tyee, June 2020
- Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Bikes, Bicycling, June 2020
- Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change Beth Gardiner, Yale Environment 360, June 2020
May 2020
- This is How Hard it is to Invest in Black Neighborhoods, Bloomberg City Lab, May 13, 2020
April 2020
- Urban Density: Confronting the Distance Between Desire and Disparity: An equity-based understanding of urban density during COVID-19 crisis and beyond; Azure, April 2020
March 2020
- Whiteness and Urban Planning by Goetz, Rashad and Damiano, Journal of the American Planning Association, March 2020