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In an increasingly urbanized world, cities conceived as products lead to injustice, inequality, touristification, segregation and gentrification. Several books address these problems

Mayor Eric Adams's public conversation about housing in New York renews discussion of problematic windowless bedrooms.

MIT Associate Professor Gabriella Carolini’s new book, “Equity, Evaluation and International Cooparation,” examines the keys to successful development projects across the Global South.

Radical planner and activist Peter Marcuse had something to say, and he said it beautifully and mightily over the course of his 93 years.

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

Contact: Preeti Vasishtha, ASA Director of Communications, (202) 247-9872, communications@asanet.org Washington, DC—Several problems continue to plague t

This article will be released in full online November 15, 2021. The job of socialists is to engage with public policy from a class perspective…

Lived reality: People living in public housing complexes are the ones who have the knowledge of the intricate details of the day-to-day experiences and challenges faced by the community. I WAS walking around the blocks at a public housing complex in Selangor when I noticed the plastic covers on the windows. Each unit had its own type of plastic, and they all covered the entire window. Some looked like they had been on there for a while, and some looked new. But they all did not look aesthetical...