03/09/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryExploration 1: Piñata Power: Reflections on Race, Love, and Planning Elizabeth Walsh Dear fellow planners, I write to you today as a white woman completing her doctorate in Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Austin this spring, 2015. I am also a gentrifier and a neighborhood activist who moved from Boston to the Holly Neighborhood of… read more
03/09/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryArticle 4: Development and Displacement: Single Family Home Demolitions in Central East Austin, 2007 to 2014 Sara McTarnaghan Abstract This paper analyzes the scale and character of home demolitions in East Austin since 2007 from a built environment approach. A documentation and analysis of home demolitions, construction, and resale in East Austin contextualizes the narrative of gentrification and reveals how that process is complicated through the… read more
03/09/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryArticle 3: Preparing Planners for Economic Decline and Population Loss: An Assessment of North American Planning Curricula Maxwell Hartt Abstract Population shrinkage, demographic aging, and economic restructuring are leaving many cities in a state of decline. This paper examines the curricula of 94 accredited North American academic planning programs to gauge whether courses specific to these processes are being offered. Findings reveal that only 1% of institutions… read more
