This week I sat for 2 interviews about Hostile Architecture. 1st with students from UCLA Luskin, 2nd with a student reporter at Western Washington University. I see the future of critical planning praxis in good hands. @uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social @wwu.edu c1typlann3r.blog/tag/hostile-...

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

Now have Nolan adapt James Joyce

do you think it would be good for my career if I posted on linkedin that I mainly live off a large container of protein powder I found in the street

[7am, hungover, gonna be late for work, staring in the mirror at the saddest looking piece of shit I’ve ever seen in my life] da greatest to ever do it baby

Continuing to use the KNOCK LA Voter Guide in particular for the Superior Court Judges knock-la.com/knock-la-pro... @knockdotla.bsky.social

I read City of Quartz for an architecture/planning seminar in college, long ago. I should re-read! (Have only read PKD's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which I loved in my teens. Need more time to read everything!!!!)

Brought a friend along on the trip.

Maybe this is too regional but City of Quartz is a great history of how Los Angeles developed into what it was in the 90s and speaks to broader US trends in urban development and racial politics

what would you assign students as a reading for a history course on the US in 1990s?

Idea: Luddite University.

I closed my recent guest talk at Cal Poly Pomona URP on the words of the late Mike Davis. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/05/04/n...

One of my favorite reads by the author of Applied Divinity Studies on Nintil blog How Substack Became Milquetoast nintil.com/substack-mil...

I wrote this in 2021:

My article Googling "New Regionalism" was originally written in 2005 and references links and webpages from the old internet. medium.com/@c1typlann3r... @theoldinternet.bsky.social

Thank you, Whittier College and community members. Embedded Planning Praxis is now worldwide. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/05/02/w...

the word " yolo " .... i will never say such shit

At Good Neighbor Bar in Altadena this weekend one of the awesome bartenders asked for book recommendations. I recommended City of Quartz, Mike Davis. I gave my stump speech on the importance of Mike Davis and this book, especially Ch 4: Fortress LA, Mike’s inaugural critique of Hostile Architecture.

Florence-Firestone Community Organization welcomed the nonprofit Architecture + Advocacy for a community walk c1typlann3r.blog/2026/04/26/f...

intriguing essay on the aspirations and realities of the public bench: placesjournal.org/article/the-...

Where have all the public benches gone? - h/t Places Journal

Hostile architecture is hostile to everyone :(

The ruling class would rather force us into increasingly hostile architecture that requires spending more and more for worse and worse conditions versus just improving conditions for everyone

Is everyone attending the stormtrooper marksmanship academy

fuck it, guerrilla benches. if the state won't work for the public then the public shouldn't abide the state. add benches in public spaces to spite the miserable bastards

it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

Ghost amenities, another form of Hostile Architecture.

What can we do to get the concentration camps shut down and restore accountability for those imprisoned against the law? Question from an ordinary citizen.

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Embedded Planning Praxis returns to Whittier College 📍 Open to all c1typlann3r.blog/2026/04/19/e...

Enjoyed today's UCLA Luskin Summit, especially the debate between the panels opposing and supporting SB 79. Shout out to Michael Storper referencing Peter Hall's book Great Planning Disasters and Mike Manville working in the term "tautology" into this housing debate. @uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social

I'm doing a workshop on Embedded Planning Praxis with MUP students at USC Price. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/04/10/e...

Three students from my 2022 Pitzer College course "Community Based Planning Praxis" are now pursuing the Master of Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA Urban Planning, my alma mater. Mission accomplished 10X. @uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social c1typlann3r.blog/2026/04/04/p...

Through the UCLA network, we are supporting Jordan Grimaldi's MURP Client Project for City Fabrick on utility right-of-ways in Los Angeles. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/03/13/u...

Originally written in 2004 & revised in 2026, my piece “The End of Geography?” is published on @medium.com. I consider claims alleging geography’s demise in the context of territorial space vs cyberspace. It’s the latest entry in my Student Papers Archive. c1typlann3r.medium.com/the-end-of-g...

No Context-inspired photos from my upcoming publication: “The End of Geography? An Analysis of Virtual and Physical Spatiality in the 21st Century.” Wrote the original for Edward W. Soja’s Political Economy of Urbanization at UCLA Urban Planning, submitted 05/05/04. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/02/28/t...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Our latest @c1typlann3r.bsky.social and @nextcity.org 😀

deleted slack today.

What is Embedded Planning? A public discussion led by the Student Planning Association at Ball State University. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/02/10/w...

I've archived 2 syllabi from my late professor Edward W. Soja. In case these disappear in a 404 error from their main site, they're here: UP233: Political Economy of Urbanization c1typlann3r.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... UP230: Intro to Regional Planning c1typlann3r.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Jackie Brown is better than Pulp Fiction c1typlann3r.blog/2026/01/24/j...

Thanks to all who attended our Central Avenue Vacant Lot Activation on Jan 17th, MLK Weekend. Shout out to SD2 Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell & Assemblymember Sade Elhawary for joining us! Florence-Firestone community members will decide the future of this vacant lot. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/01/19/c...

And the Pritzker Prize goes to b0ysfirm

hi @katewagner.wehwalt.net. i'm one of your readers :-) recently i recalled there was an article written about dank lloyd wright, b0ysfirm, and blank gehry on insta. i've run searches but can't find it. did you write this article or am i misremembering? please send the link if so! thank you, JPB

Craigslist isn’t enshittified. By Jenn Swann @wired.com www.wired.com/story/is-cra...

Architect Frank Gehry passed away on December 5th. He was an inspiration to me as a 90s architecture student at East LA College & SCI-Arc. I published this commemorating his influence. Check out my 1996 residential design created in the spirit of Frank Gehry c1typlann3r.medium.com/frank-gehry-...

A university course on Embedded Planning praxis is coming to Ball State University @ballstate.bsky.social thanks to Fort Wayne embedded planner, Dan Baisden @midwestplanner.bsky.social! c1typlann3r.blog/2025/11/30/e...

“Fear is now the go-to technique for motivating faculty and staff.” Fleming, Peter. Dark Academia: how universities die. Pluto Press, 2021. #highered #edchat

friendsgiving perreo

Uh well a lot of adjunct faculty are about to lose their jobs for no reason except someone else’s vanity—including myself. This is to say if anyone needs someone with 10 years of experience teaching urban design criticism, climate change narratives, writing for artists, etc…I am available.