Gordon Douglas is an assistant professor of urban planning and director of the Institute for Metropolitan Studies at San José State University. His book, The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism, was published in 2018 by Oxford University Press.
Gordon Douglas
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Cities Run by Real Estate
After decades confined to the desk drawer of important but boring things, the minutiae of urban planning policy are now attracting some popular attention. Transit-oriented development might come up at a dinner party. Important changes to one city’s codes—say, zoning reform in Minneapolis—can make national headlines. Community benefits agreements, property tax overhauls, and the problematic […]
H. P. Lovecraft For Our Time
Fear of the other cuts both ways. A young woman in Brooklyn today is afraid to go outside. Even in daylight, and especially in the company of the pale white child …
