The striking architecture of Aalto University University of Helsinki University of Tampere and the cities of southern Finland created a stunning backdrop for World Planning Schools Congress 2026 #wpsc2026 Credit to original photographers.

Fresh cuts to the Strategic Priorities Grant are of grave concern for our disciplines. In history-based subjects like archaeology, trends in university provision indicate large emerging cold spots - where courses are shrinking or disappearing in some regions. 🧵1/2

My remarks on receiving GPEAN - Global Planning Education Association Network's inaugural Distinguished Service Award at the 6th World Planning Schools Congress 2026, 2 July 2026: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S32T...

My remarks on receiving GPEAN - Global Planning Education Association Network's inaugural Distinguished Service Award at the 6th World Planning Schools Congress 2026, 2 July 2026: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S32T...

At the World Planning Schools Congress 2026, Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) presented the inaugural #GPEAN Distinguished Service Award to @brucestiftel.bsky.social ACSP and @gatech-globedev.bsky.social

"Walking away from USAID is, on top of being cruel, just incredibly dumb. It's literally like having the best brand name and saying, let's invent a new brand name, even though this is the most popular, most beloved, most respected arm ..of US foreign policy in the world" www.npr.org/2026/07/03/n...

"Jen Benson, director of advocacy and communications ​at Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, disputed the claim. She said the Coast Guard did not ask ‌for ⁠the messages to be taken down, but requested the ship leave the sailing route or risk arrest." www.reuters.com/world/us/ves...

"Washington was beloved by many for giving away power he could have kept. Trump is reviled by many for snatching power he isn’t entitled to." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/o...

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Beginning today in Espoo, Finland, on the campus of Aalto University, the World Planning Schools Congress 2026 -- 6th in the series which began in Shanghai in '01, continued in Mexico City '06, Perth, Australia '11, Rio de Janeiro '16 and Nusa Dua, Indonesia '22.

The Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) Governing Council met today at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland under leadership of chair Ayşın Dedekorkut-Howes of Griffith University and the Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS).

Call for an ASSOCIATE EDITOR for Planning Theory ( journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...) Call for a BOOK REVIEW EDITOR for Planning Theory ( journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...)

Call for a DISCUSSIONS/DEBATES/COMMENTS EDITOR for Planning Theory (journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...) Call for a PODCAST EDITOR for Planning Theory (journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...) Call for an ESSAY EDITOR for Planning Theory ( journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...)

Call for a DISCUSSIONS/DEBATES/COMMENTS EDITOR for Planning Theory (journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...) Call for a PODCAST EDITOR for Planning Theory (journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...) Call for an ESSAY EDITOR for Planning Theory ( journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...)

Call for an ASSOCIATE EDITOR for Planning Theory ( journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...) Call for a BOOK REVIEW EDITOR for Planning Theory ( journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...)

The Frankfurt School forecast the era of competing realities and disinformation. #Habermas tried to lay out a response that would hold society fast to #rationality by approaching rationality as an inter-subjective rather than an objective. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The detailed program for the 6th World Planning Schools Congress in Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, 29 June - 3 July, has been posted to the Congress website: app.eventos.fi/wpsc2026/web...

"On the road Ms Gage found faith in American progress that opinion polls fail to capture. However fractious today’s politics are, the country retains a great capacity for reinvention." www.economist.com/culture/2026...

"The American dream has been downsized, and most Americans can’t even afford the discount version." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

NEW STORY// Seattle Is Updating Its Climate Plan for First Time in 13 Years By Syris Valentine at @shapersyris via @theurbanist.org

Bonnie Johnson Kansas Univ named Book Review Editor of Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) #JAPAplanning www.planning.org/blog/9330646...

The cheapest place to fight screwworm was Central America. USAID helped fund that fight. The programs were cut, the warning systems weakened, and now the parasite is back on American soil. Time for Rubio to resign.

The American Planning Association Board was at the mother ship last week giving input on the association's work plan for 2027. Thanks president Sue Schwartz and APA staff. #APA

The best way to remember and honor the men and women who risked everything for us is to fight neofascism — fight for a stronger democracy, fight for the rule of law and social justice, fight against bigotry. -- Robert Reich

"[T]he Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s scientific enterprise." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Scientists have used data from the system to understand ... how changes in ocean temperature such as marine heat waves might affect fisheries or signal bigger shifts in the climate, and coastal flooding along the East Coast."  www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

What do we know about how to leverage upzonings to generate substantial new housing supply? 1—Large increases in zoned capacity are needed 2—Upzoning needs to be in strong housing markets 3—Be patient: Change takes time That's our conclusion in a new research roundup @urbaninstitute.bsky.social

"Romania accused Russia of a "grave and irresponsible escalation" after a Russian drone entered its airspace. German Chancellor Merz said "we need a strong NATO presence on the eastern flank" after the incident." www.dw.com/en/russian-d...

"[T]he perception that people have of space programs as wasteful is often self-inflicted. There are many “so-whats” that touch our lives, and kitchen table issues daily. How would people know that if it is lost in translation or not translated at all?" www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Remembering when DHL twice sent my manuscript to Triblisi, before figuring out I'm in the other Georgia. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/w...

"In FY26, as of May 22, the NIH has awarded half as many new grants (-48%) compared to the historical average at this point in the year (based on FY17-24); as of May 25, the NSF has awarded even fewer new grants (-65%) than they typically do." atlanta.urbanize.city/post/letter-...

"I care because I live here. I care because I’m embarrassed. I care because Atlanta deserves better than this." atlanta.urbanize.city/post/letter-...

🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting

www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n... City of Portland, Ore., has built a community solar project to reduce emissions and lower energy bills for 150 low-income families. The city has distributed more than 20,000 free air conditioning units to help vulnerable households prepare for heat waves.

The SPLASH! for Swimmable Cities in the Caspian Sea was a highlight of WUF13. With UN-Habitat’s support we’re ready to scale our global mission of mainstreaming ‘swimmability’ in urban planning and integrated water management.

MeidasTouch: What do you make of this $1.776 billion fund— Gavin Newsom: It’s a criminal enterprise. It’s not just corruption, it’s not just graft, it’s a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to be shut down.

Thurs at #WUF13 @gpean-planning.bsky.social highlights: CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: PLANNING FOR SAFE AND RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES BUILDING A GLOBAL NETWORK FOR CLIMATE-RESILIENT HOUSING FUTURE OF UN-HABITAT'S PARTNERSHIP WITH ACADEMIA AND RESEARCH @unhabitat-uni.bsky.social

Join GPEAN - Global Planning Education Association Network planners at the 13th World Urban Forum in Baku this week! WUF Academy program: drive.google.com/file/d/1NY1e... Full WUF Program: wuf.unhabitat.org/programme @rtpiplanners.bsky.social @gpean-planning.bsky.social

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

"What unites these disparate cultures, policy environments and demographics, researchers are now realizing, is young people’s inescapable and crushing sense that the future is too uncertain for the lifelong commitment of parenthood." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o... #fertility #PopulationDecline

"Its a loss to the people of the nation. When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations, and cures and you shrink the supply of future scientists." www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xa0...

ATL Studies Symposium happening now! 22 sessions with speakers from 16 universities+. Closing keynote today at 4:30: There Is No Place For Us: Working, Homeless and Invisible in Atlanta Brian Goldstone Georgia State U Student Center East atlantastudies.org/2026/04/13/p...

Our highways are crumbling. Loss of $17 billion will make them worse. The persistent refusal to fund infrastructure is crippling our country. www.ajc.com/business/202...

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...