Progressive Planning and Community Organizing in the 21st Century

A seminar by Tom Angotti, where he argues that progressive planning and organizing today has to go beyond advocacy and equity models. He traces the historical importance of advocacy and equity approaches, but then talk about environmental and climate justice, gender equality, occupy, black lives matter, anti-capitalism, etc. and how and why planners (and geographers!) are largely silent on these issues.

About the speaker

Tom Angotti is a Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development. His recent books include The New Century of the Metropolis, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won the Davidoff Book Award, and Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths. He is co-editor of Progressive Planning Magazine, and Participating Editor for Latin American Perspectives and Local Environment. He is actively engaged in community and environmental justice issues in New York City.

The event is organized by the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Geography Undergraduate Students Society (GUSS), Urban Planning Association (UPA), GEOGRADS