'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

Thinking about democracy, action, and the process of producing research a lot recently. This article reflecting on Patsy Healey's work by @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social was a pleasure to read. I also very much enjoyed the reflection at the end on the importance of intellectual inspiration and exchange

I love how this Interface collection on Inspirations in Planning for Planning Theory & Practice came out. I contributed a piece reflecting on a quotation from Paolo Freire's "We Make the Road by Walking," and my experience on the feeling of 'being unfinished' in community-engaged planning.

A grad student at the University of Minnesota has been abducted by ICE.

regional public Us serve the vast majority of the 20 million students enrolled in higher ed, are largest employers in countless regions, and are being demolished for the oligarch’s pleasure

Getting harder and harder to call Columbia a legitimate university.

Very cogent arguments here on the crisis in/facing higher education in the US

With the rise of generative AI tools and the use of words in brazenly untruthful ways by rising right-wing ideologues, what does the production of words mean today? @chaolim85.bsky.social muses on this question in his editorial for Planning Theory & Practice: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very timely...

With the rise of gen AI, and the dizzying fire hose of (illegal) policies out of the new US administration, what do words mean anymore? I muse on this question for planning practice, research, and education in this editorial for @planningtheory.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking fwd to this week's methods class: What Values Animate Your Research? What does / shld matter beyond prestige, metrics + funders’ egos? What abt access, civic engagement, social justice, etc., and when are those values @ odds w/ The Academy's? cimsmethods.wordsinspace.net/2024/portfol...

The mobilizing power of youth in planning. I made a 5-minute video summarizing our participatory action research project to address adaptation to rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA: youtu.be/WEM5ASM-QXY?...

What can the development of a serious game for urban park design teach us about community planning? A lot! Understanding diverse park user preferences, facilitation skills, conflict resolution, spatial synergies and tradeoffs in design, empathy, and care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPjo...

These letters are going out to eight high school students in Roanoke. Over the next 10 months, they, with the support of Virginia Tech Urban and Regional Planning students, will be creating plans to build community capacity to deal with the effects of rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA.

An excellent reflection on Science Policy over the decades. Incl explanation of how we find ourselves in current anti-expert anti-elite culture. What role has our “belief in” science as separate from/superior to values & interests played? issues.org/science-poli...

Just back from NSF hq for the kickoff event for our CIVIC Innovation award. This program is doing wonders to legitimize participatory action research (the number of times I've been asked how the kind of research I do counts as "research"! 😡). Now can say, NSF gave us $1M to do it! It's RESEARCH

Check out my new Viewpoint article out in J of the American Planning Assoc— participatory action research reveals roles of social capital and care in heat resilience planning. Also connects to sociotechnical theories of “infrastructure” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new Journal of the Am. Planning Assoc. viewpoint by @chaolim85.bsky.social encourages incorporating social capital and care with infrastructure planning—a much-needed connection of our field to socio-technical theories: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I've been working with the amazing folks at LibraryStack for the past several months on this open-access booklet about "reparative redaction" - or, aesthetic practices that deploy redaction as a protective or reparative technique (that's little me on the cover :) It's coming out tomorrow, I think! 🤗

Just stumbled on this short video a student made after interviewing me last spring... GREAT editing of my rambling on ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILY5...

“Before they did this activity, if you asked one of these middle school kids if humans can control the temperature outside, they’d say no way." What @chaolim85.bsky.social's students revealed about urban heat:

My students and I hosted a workshop for a resident activist group trying to save an urban forest from dev't. We put together a series of activities meant to promote authentic engagement through storytelling. They said this was the 1st time they actually felt heard and listened to by outsiders. 🤗