I couldn't bring.myself to throw out the punch cards from my dissertation for 20 years. The late nights in the computer center taking advantage of cheaper data processing night rates built comradery. #phdlife www.facebook.com/share/r/1XBb...

Planners for Climate Action #wuf13 @WUF13Azerbaijan sessions: Building a Global Network for Climate-Resilient Housing (21 May 14h00 Multipurpose Room 3 Planning Tools for Climate Action (22 May 12h00 Urban Library room A) @CAPplanners @UCCRN @Habitat_org @Kingsfound @ISOCARP @gpean_planning

"Trump and Musk destroyed a program that was saving a life once every 10 seconds on average. This has been Trump's most lethal policy, and now he's doubling down by withholding vaccines from poor countries."  www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Trump slashed funding for researching infectious diseases like hantavirus and made deep staffing cuts to the CDC and other agencies that coordinate outbreak response. His disastrous decision-making cost us during the last pandemic — and continues to put us in danger. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

Academic involvement in this month's World Urban Forum is richer and more varied than in the past. #WUF13

Trump's H-1B Visa proposal will require salary increases for entry level jobs. That could shut out opportunities for young talent as US employers balk at the increased expense.

Building a Global Network for Climate-Resilient Housing at #WUF13 Baku: 21 May '26, 14h00-15h30, Multipurpose Room 3. Build capacity for sharing policy solutions by practical experience for increasing resilience of the housing sector.

"Boarding a flight as a wheelchair user has long meant handing over your independence at the door. Airbus is working to make that a thing of the past." theworldisaccessible.com/the-end-of-h...

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

“be comfortable being uncomfortable" www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Overseas and global planners associations were represented at #NPC26. Among them: Eleanor Mohammed CAPplanners Tom Walsh RTPIplanners Wafa Al-Daily and Tijana Tufek Memišević ISOCARP NOSPlan_India Salvador Herrera Montes, Urbanistica

American Planning Association conference staff turned Detroit's Huntington Place Convention Center into a great home for #NPC26! See you online 27-29 May for #NPC26 Online, and in Houston 15-18 May '27 for #NPC27.

Go #jacketplanners go! Just a few of the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning alumni students and faculty at #npc26.

Team Patchwork of Ga Tech Planning is the first prize winner in the APA Student Planning and Design Competition!!! Congratulations Nick Lucovsky, Meryl Pawlick Andrew Sarphie, and Emma Uppelschoten!!!! #NPC26

American Planning Association officers and staff briefed briefed an #NPC26 Leadership Plenary yesterday about the association's Foresight work, Component Collaboration project, legislative policy work, and APA Foundation scholarships.

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Controlling the data is no longer an option in this era of crowdsourcing and open software.

On the first Earth Day on April 22 of 1970, the Clearwater arrived to Washington, DC after an 8 day voyage delivering thousands of petition signatures in support of passage of the Clean Water Act. Join us: www.clearwater.org/engage

Washington DC's 240 million-gallon sewage spill early this year was the largest in U.S. history. But the real story is what it reveals about aging infrastructure nationwide: The EPA estimates 23,000 to 75,000 sewer overflows happen annually (and there isn’t even a national reporting system).

Bob Hall, who died April 12 at 74, was the Boston Marathon’s first official wheelchair champion in 1975. He was hailed the father of wheelchair racing and helped inaugurate a more inclusive era for the sport.

On #MayDayHigherEd we show our power. When we fight, we win.

We're excited to announce the release of the preliminary program for the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium! We hope to see you all on Thursday, May 14th at Georgia State! atlantastudies.org/2026/04/13/p...

"What’s the point of having an expert on something in the classroom if that expert doesn’t get to decide what to say and not to say to students? If the board or the uni wants to micromanage, censor, tell us what to say and what not to say, the very idea of a university collapses." lnkd.in/ekpfWth7

"In some countries, over 90 percent of student visa applications were rejected. A new report argues that the current visa landscape “undermines the principle of merit-based entry.”' www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Home.

"U.S. alliances rested on something larger: consultation, some measure of strategic continuity and the assumption that American power, however unevenly applied, operated inside a recognizable framework. That framework has collapsed." editions.ajc.com/.../26236acc...

What the Chicago Bears relocation fight can teach us about economics reut.rs/3Q2B4uv

Bridging global and local agendas: Reflections on AESOP’s engagement in GPEAN and HABITAT-UNI (2019–2025) Paulo Silva DISP www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Protecting civilians is a sign of strength – and an American ideal | Ted Widmer

"Hurricane Helene unleashed a deluge on Georgia. Much of the 16-acre park, named for Rodney Cook Sr., a longtime local politician, was submerged. The neighborhood around it was not. And that was the plan."  www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

Best luck to #jacketplanner Team Terminus in the finals of @APA_Planning Student Planning and Design Competition during #NPC26 in Detroit! GaTech Planners www.linkedin.com/pulse/march-...

Atlanta. No kings.

FSU Urban Planning celebrated 60 years of teaching, learning, research and service this week. I had the honor of reviewing the Department's history. Then faculty Aurora Echavarria, Mehak Sachdeva, and Fariba Siddiq discussed the future with Dean Tim Chapin . @floridastateuniv.bsky.social

Carissa Schively Slotterback of the U Pittsburgh was recognized last night by FSU COSSPP as a Distinguished Alumna. Slotterback said she learned commitment to make sure universities are engaged with communities and supportive of students at FSU Urban and Regional Planning.

T]he current conflict, is a reminder that... Dubai offers stability in an unstable region. Once shaken, that confidence can take far longer to rebuild than any damaged building or disrupted flight route." www.thestatesman.com/opinion/indi...

"As congestion in our region gets worse, some Republican state legislators are proposing bills to limit the expansion of transit in metro Atlanta." saportareport.com/stuck-in-rev...

The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.

His most recent work, Things Needed to Get Better, was published...last year. In it, he refuses to “let defeatism have the last word”, arguing it is possible to “confront the crises of the present aggressively and finally overcome them after all”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

36 times the Hebrew Bible tells us to care for the stranger. Today, the idea of treating the other kindly is rejected by too many across the world www.dw.com/en/amsterdam...

"Dr. Habermas bucked the prevailing trend of postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, offering a staunch defense of Enlightenment ideals and the possibility of individual and societal freedom."  www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Heartbreaking to read about yet another synagogue attack, and on the same day yet another university shooting. How can we not see the connections between the vitriol in our public discourse and the violence that takes place day after day? www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

"[A] great deal of what’s happening under the banner of reform is jingoistic and dumb, not to mention a disaster for academic freedom....Colleges need to eliminate indoctrination, “not mimic it from the other side.”' www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

"“States themselves report losing 52 to 91 cents on the dollar on their sales and use tax exemptions." www.governing.com/finance/the-...

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.

The issuance of F-1 student visas worldwide took a nosedive last year, with the number awarded during the critical months of May to August 2025 declining 36 percent, according to a Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of State data. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...