Planning has historically been used as a tool to regulate queer people in urban space and parades have long vibrant, yet overlooked, practice for resisting such municipal regulation—although themselves require spatial planning practices. We analyze the 50-year history of Los Angeles Pride parade through archival materials, asking what extent how historical LA demonstrates radical praxis, especially relation policing. find that was initially (a) ritual remembrance (b) political organizing...

Arts-based community development practices have received newfound prominence over the past decade under auspices of "creative placemaking." In 2010, National Endowment for Arts (NEA) published a white paper titled "Creative Placemaking" and launched new granting program focused on this practice called Our Town. Today, creative placemaking is burgeoning yet its precise definition remains fuzzy. This article uses content analysis to systematically analyze 569 Town grants awarded by NEA since...

Los Angeles has recently been the site of two notable cases guerrilla urbanism. In one, street vendors formed advocacy groups and a coalition with allies that lobbied city council overturned citywide ban on their activity. another, several Boyle Heights community organizations deployed confrontational tactics to close art events, galleries, coffee shops counter gentrification displacement. This article compares these find key role urban aesthetics design play in rewriting dominant spatial...

The arts and historic preservation are well-established as strategies that can underpin urban planning development. Although there is documented alignment between the preservation, they not typically formally integrated in city existing research tends to address one or other, but their integration. We fill this gap through an exploration of intersection preservation. focus on who employs these why, synergies tensions practices, how relate contemporary development terms gentrification,...

The strip mall is a ubiquitous urban design type formed by of commercial establishments on single parcel land that surround an open, street-facing parking lot. We hypothesize they are important sites for ethnic and immigrant businesses in LA and, particular, their relatively low rents, location, (including site layout, unit size, structure quality) particularly conducive cultural placemaking. Using data about the built environment, real estate market, our own original "EthniCITY" spatial...

Traditional urban planning projects require considerable time, political buy-in, and capital. Conversely, small-scale interventions can be executed quickly inexpensively. However, the terms used to describe these projects—such as tactical, pop-up, temporary, or insurgent urbanism—are numerous overlapping, making them hard distinguish from each other. We suggest that a single unifying term, punctual urbanism, capture different urbanisms. To justify this choice, we provide definitions...

Co-creation has been adopted by some as a new paradigm for collaborative and participatory planning, especially through the introduction of creative artistic practices which can disrupt problematic power relationships latent within urban projects knowledge creation. research, however, often focused on connect empowered institutional actors, such city planning officials, from top down to less grassroots community actors. take myriad forms, I use evidence Los Angeles Little Tokyo to, first,...

Climate change and the urban heat island (UHI) effect are increasing extreme risk in cities across world, have already made top weather-related cause of death United States. Despite this, understanding viable strategies to address is still limited, for both decision-makers public. Using a design-based research methodology, we developed an interactive educational game, Chill City, which teaches players about possible planning their tradeoffs. We surveyed adult, non-expert understand game's...

November 01 2018 Conjuring Utopia’s Ghost Reinhold Martin, Martin is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for Study American Architecture, PhD program in Architecture. He holds a from Princeton as well degrees Architectural Association Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A founding co-editor journal Grey Room, also author The Organizational Comple: Media, Corporate Space. Search other works by this on: This...

Los Angeles has recently been the site of two notable cases guerrilla urbanism. In one, street vendors formed advocacy groups and a coalition with allies that lobbied city council overturned citywide ban on their activity. another, several Boyle Heights community organizations deployed confrontational tactics to close art events, galleries, coffee shops counter gentrification displacement. This article compares these find key role urban aesthetics design play in rewriting dominant spatial...

Urban Humanities is emerging as a set of academic programs, scholarly approaches, and research agendas. Employing the conceptual tool “immanent speculation” this essay sets forth proposal for practicing an inherently unknowable future in order to create conditions that unfold. In contrast theory-laden speculative philosophy, or incrementalism design built environment, even extreme opposite ungrounded utopianism, immanent speculation rigorously extracts latent alternative realities embedded...

It is settled: the future belongs to Shanghai. Anna Greenspan, a professor and philosopher based in Shanghai, argues as much her recent book Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade. Yet she not ref...

"Who Is the We in Diaspora?" is episode2, season two of Digital Salon, an experimental podcast begun at onset COVID-19 pandemic. Produced by coauthor Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, "DJ," it meditates on Atlanta shootings six Asian spa workers March6 2021. The transcript this episode presented anew, paired with "liner notes" that are a collaboration between DJ and his "critical listener," Jacqueline Barrios, piece co-producer through textual "accompaniments" its afterlife to stage work's claim own futurity.

November 01 2018 On Radiation Burn Steve Kurtz, Kurtz is Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities and founding member the art theory group Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). CAE collective five tactical media practitioners various specializations, who focus on exploration intersections between art, critical theory, technology, political activism. The has performed produced wide variety projects for an international audience diverse venues ranging...