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Hoboken's celebrated "Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge" strategy appears in planning literature as a triumph of urban adaptation—a case study in climate resilience ready for export to coastal cities worldwide. The narrative of transformation following Hurricane Sandy's devastation focuses on technical innovation and municipal
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One of the most effective ways to get people to engage in evil is to convince them that they are doing good. The volunteer fire department is the angelic mask placed by a deceitful community to allow exclusion.
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Guest columnist, Charles Sontag, PhD The Newark Subway run by New Jersey Transit (NJT) has much potential and is underdeveloped. It started as a replacement for the Morris Canal which was abandoned in the mid 1920’s. At that time, several cities, Newark, Bloomfield, Clifton, and Paterson purchased the canal
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New Jersey needs more non-driving options into the city. Half of the nonresident income-tax payments in New York come from people who live in New Jersey and work in New York City. According to 2021 in Data NY in 2014, that was 3.1 billion dollars. Yet, New Jersey is
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Employing Prosocial Positive Change Methods to Facilitate Equity and Collaboration in Spatial Planning Frederick Law Olmsted, Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, Jane Jacobs, and Rosa Parks all used positive change methods. Politics, literature, and media are all tools for change. The Mount Laurel Doctrine: New Jersey’s Unfulfilled Promise of Affordable
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In the quiet cul-de-sacs of New Jersey’s suburbs, where white picket fences and manicured lawns symbolize the American Dream, a quiet crisis unfolds daily. Meet Sarah (name changed to protect her guilty—husband), a middle-class mother of two in Paramus County: by 8 a.m., she’s dropped her
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This is not partisan, this is just to show that democracy can still work and this is the guy that might be able to do it. WOW!!! Check out the energy for Bernie Sanders in Omaha, Nebraska tonight! 3,400 people showed up in this Republican district. This is huge.
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The right to vote—the bedrock of American democracy—is under siege. House Republicans’ Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, framed as a remedy for “election integrity,” is instead a brazen effort to disenfranchise millions, disproportionately targeting women, low-income communities, and marginalized voters. At its core, the legislation weaponizes bureaucracy
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As the acid rain film settles on the recent election, a sobering predicted truth emerges for women residing in America's urban centers. The prospect of a second Trump presidency casts a long shadow over the hard-won progress in women's rights and other tenets of social equality.
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There’s a lot going on in the world right now—endless, overwhelming crises competing for our attention. Our focus? Feminist Urbanism.
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What we should learn from housing projects is that strategic defunding, carelessness, and racial exclusion & segregated facilities are not useful tools to employ for successful public projects.
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Trump’s inauguration was a horrifying spectacle. “We will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to my great American auto workers…In other words, you’ll be able to buy the car of your