If you are wondering who decides where and for what purposes redevelopment resources are distributed and who benefits from these decisions, you found your happy place!

Here is my publication in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Students in @minjeekim.bsky.social Site Planning Studio partnered with Solano Canyon residents to make the neighborhood more fire resilient. This new report on that effort is a model for community engaged planning across LA.

Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...

😮 sorry to hear that!! If this happens again, just get out of the area and be in a completely different part of the city...

@rpplan.bsky.social @elpaavo.bsky.social not sure who else is on here...

It is a commentary by an amazing planning faculty collective that co-created and co-taught a multi-campus course, Zoning for Equity. After 3 years of teaching, we urge planning programs to evaluate how zoning is currently being taught and place a greater emphasis on equity when teaching zoning.

Sharing a new Open Access article just published in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA), urging planning programs to "Bring Zoning Back Into the Planning Curricula."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access thanks to UC libraries and reposted as the link was not working in the original thread!

My aspiration is that the proposed framework allows planners, activists, and policymakers to understand the impacts of real estate development on existing socioeconomic inequalities and open up pathways for encouraging socially-responsible real estate developments.

Alternatively, I propose a novel framework for capturing the “social” use values of real estate development. The proposed modified DCF framework considers how a project may have positive or negative social value by reducing or exacerbating existing inequalities.

Here, I question the meaning of value underlying the most common property valuation technique - the discounted cash flow analysis - and demonstrate that this technique only captures the value of properties to investors, while overlooking their impacts on existing socioeconomic inequalities.

Brand new to Bluesky and I am excited to be featuring my first theoretical thought experiment published at Planning theory as the first official post on the platform journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Aw, thanks so much, Greg! I am new to Bluesky and was trying to feel out the conversations and community before jumping in. This feels like a warm welcome!