This is the kind of content we need in urbanist spaces if we are actually ever going to address the problems urbanists claim to want to fix. It was nice to get a more in depth discussion than just „engage with your community“ thats typical in the online urbanist community. Awesome video.
As someone pursuing a degree in urban and regional planning and learning more about leftism and becoming more politically engaged, I'm very happy I found this channel. I'm starting to take urban planning courses this semester, so I can't wait to see how more of these topics connect
Kinda funny how society trains us to think that being polite and smiling equates earning someone's trust. Something I've repeatedly experienced in the homeless sector is that any time you show rebellion, pain, frustration, meltdowns, outbursts, expressions of the trauma you're experiencing - providers and supports will chide you, saying they're always polite to you, and they'll talk to you when you're calm, cuz they've never done anything to you. I strongly advocate for a restructuring of the system that allows relationships to be built and trust earned, by focusing on a low-case load and the relationship building. I feel like this model could pivot the system towards a more organic and healthy society. The problem, of course, is that the system has no interest in this focus. It's not money generating. It doesn't encourage people to do everything they're asked to do, because the worker is able to say, "No, I have something else that provides more balance in my life. I won't meet your pace or expectation for the sake of your bottom line." The more time that goes on, the more disgusted I get with the whole RE sector. I feel like the people w/money, in positions of influence (powerful influence) are hypocrites that actively disseminate disinformation - and sometimes I think they provide disinfo cuz they simply don't see anything outside of their own perspective. I saw a RE investor get mad that individuals may rent instead of sell their secondary house, saying they're stupid idiots who won't make profit and will lose money, while they actively invest in property ownership and landlordism. I've seen people in the RE sphere on twitter just outright lie, and argue for their lies. It's shocking, really, and I find it confusing that they would say such blatantly untrue things, like cars 40 years ago died at 50k miles ("and that's why cars today are better so capitalism today is great and the costs of things are fine cuz they're better now"). Think I kind of trailed off the subject.....
i’m a housing organizer and a communist who is seriously considering grad school for urban planning. i have to say thank you so much for making these videos. while low key depressing to hear that planning might be obsolete very soon, i truly believe that organizing + planning are essential to liberation and i still want to learn planning skills.
i really appreciate that! if you have an interest in pursuing planning, i would recommend doing it- even if the profession is falling apart we still need planners! especially those who understand the role of planning in the context of liberation.
Deep gratitude and appreciation for this video. I'm based in Alabama and after years of community organizing, I'm considering going back to school for urban planning. This content is definitely helping me get oriented, manage expectations and chart a path forward. Please keep em coming and thanks again
im a city planner resisting the massive urge to share this video to my linkedin but thank you so much for being the one planning youtuber putting this perspective out there!!!
I really appreciate this and your other work I’ve seen, you address so many of the issues and questions I have as someone in a planning masters program who actively hates the capitalism and colonialism that underpins every mainstream decision about how places are constructed. Will definitely be directing likeminded peers here ❤
Good stuff! The Angotti-edited "Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City" is my reading list, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I did go back and re-read Lake's "Rethinking NIMBY" and there really are some bangers in there (e.g. "It is politically easier to castigate community opposition to affordable housing than to re-examine a political economy that perpetuates poverty so that we have to create places for poor people to live"). It's also interesting to revisit with the additional context of Lake's 2021 IJURR piece "YIMBYism Then and Now."
ILYSM i am graduating soon and your channel has been everything for me, there isnt enough political discourse in planning and it causes us to miss larger contexts and limit ourselves repeatedly.
I just found your channel and as someone who recently stumbled into Transportation Planning from Anthropology/Archaeology this is super interesting/useful. Thank you for making this video!
The first drafts of the script had this sort of stuff, but the video was getting to unwieldy. I think regarding why someone would get into the field - it is unique to everyone. I wanted to be an architect in high school and didn't even know what planning was until undergrad. My roommate in grad school was a ceramics major in undergrad. My other friends in grad school had preservation, poli sci, anthropology, psychology degrees. Everyone got into planning on their own path. I would guess the biggest factor is having a comprehensive/exhaustive way of thinking - planners need to be thinking about whole systems while they work. But in most graduate programs, your undergraduate degree is irrelevant and often it's more helpful to have something unrelated to planning - it can help you bring in a different perspective. As far as types of jobs, it changes a lot. When I started, TOD was lucrative so that's where I headed but that does not seem to be as in-demand as it was in 2014. The biggest choice will be between private sector and public sector - private will pay more, but be more stressful (in my experience). Public sector could better expose you to communities but your ability to serve them will be limited by the politics of your city/jurisdiction.
The overlap is significant - Land Back and a radical planning approach are both about changing who controls the land for the purpose of restoring justice, eliminating capitalist alienation, redistributing wealth and power to the people, and becoming stewards of the land to save the environment. Radical planning itself is a tool so I would not say that it is universally applied by all people in the Land Back movement but I do know that there are many radical planners who are specifically fighting for indigenous power.
can you do a video on books or education resources on urban planning? Specially for if I’m looking to see if it’s something I’m interested in or wanting to learn more about
i recommend reading the book “Capital City” by Sam Stein. it’s a good intro to the crises we are facing, how urban planning makes it worse, and what urban planners can do to move us away from bad planning
Environmental science major who accidentally just ended up in professional planning in Pennsylvania, do you have any resources or case studies for good design in PA or elsewhere?
I just want to say how much I appreciate there being a radical voice like yours in this neoliberal "urbanists" RUclips movement.
This is the kind of content we need in urbanist spaces if we are actually ever going to address the problems urbanists claim to want to fix. It was nice to get a more in depth discussion than just „engage with your community“ thats typical in the online urbanist community. Awesome video.
As someone pursuing a degree in urban and regional planning and learning more about leftism and becoming more politically engaged, I'm very happy I found this channel. I'm starting to take urban planning courses this semester, so I can't wait to see how more of these topics connect
Kinda funny how society trains us to think that being polite and smiling equates earning someone's trust. Something I've repeatedly experienced in the homeless sector is that any time you show rebellion, pain, frustration, meltdowns, outbursts, expressions of the trauma you're experiencing - providers and supports will chide you, saying they're always polite to you, and they'll talk to you when you're calm, cuz they've never done anything to you.
I strongly advocate for a restructuring of the system that allows relationships to be built and trust earned, by focusing on a low-case load and the relationship building. I feel like this model could pivot the system towards a more organic and healthy society. The problem, of course, is that the system has no interest in this focus. It's not money generating. It doesn't encourage people to do everything they're asked to do, because the worker is able to say, "No, I have something else that provides more balance in my life. I won't meet your pace or expectation for the sake of your bottom line."
The more time that goes on, the more disgusted I get with the whole RE sector. I feel like the people w/money, in positions of influence (powerful influence) are hypocrites that actively disseminate disinformation - and sometimes I think they provide disinfo cuz they simply don't see anything outside of their own perspective. I saw a RE investor get mad that individuals may rent instead of sell their secondary house, saying they're stupid idiots who won't make profit and will lose money, while they actively invest in property ownership and landlordism.
I've seen people in the RE sphere on twitter just outright lie, and argue for their lies. It's shocking, really, and I find it confusing that they would say such blatantly untrue things, like cars 40 years ago died at 50k miles ("and that's why cars today are better so capitalism today is great and the costs of things are fine cuz they're better now").
Think I kind of trailed off the subject.....
i’m a housing organizer and a communist who is seriously considering grad school for urban planning. i have to say thank you so much for making these videos. while low key depressing to hear that planning might be obsolete very soon, i truly believe that organizing + planning are essential to liberation and i still want to learn planning skills.
i really appreciate that! if you have an interest in pursuing planning, i would recommend doing it- even if the profession is falling apart we still need planners! especially those who understand the role of planning in the context of liberation.
Deep gratitude and appreciation for this video. I'm based in Alabama and after years of community organizing, I'm considering going back to school for urban planning. This content is definitely helping me get oriented, manage expectations and chart a path forward. Please keep em coming and thanks again
im a city planner resisting the massive urge to share this video to my linkedin but thank you so much for being the one planning youtuber putting this perspective out there!!!
I really appreciate this and your other work I’ve seen, you address so many of the issues and questions I have as someone in a planning masters program who actively hates the capitalism and colonialism that underpins every mainstream decision about how places are constructed. Will definitely be directing likeminded peers here ❤
Good stuff! The Angotti-edited "Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City" is my reading list, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I did go back and re-read Lake's "Rethinking NIMBY" and there really are some bangers in there (e.g. "It is politically easier to castigate community opposition to affordable housing than to re-examine a political economy that perpetuates poverty so that we have to create places for poor people to live"). It's also interesting to revisit with the additional context of Lake's 2021 IJURR piece "YIMBYism Then and Now."
Absolutely! Here’s a good look at Lake’s work too: www.ijurr.org/article/planners-alchemy-achieved-how-nimby-and-yimby-reproduce-the-housing-question/
ILYSM i am graduating soon and your channel has been everything for me, there isnt enough political discourse in planning and it causes us to miss larger contexts and limit ourselves repeatedly.
I just found your channel and as someone who recently stumbled into Transportation Planning from Anthropology/Archaeology this is super interesting/useful. Thank you for making this video!
Revisiting this and damn Sabrina is so spot on in everything 🔥 thanks again for great guests and a great video!
This is quite a timely video for me.
Dude this is SO GOOD holy shit
That bit about self-initiated learning applies to sociology generally as well, not just urban sociology.
I was hoping you would cover how to get into this field to begin with. What types of positions give you the best advantages, etc.
The first drafts of the script had this sort of stuff, but the video was getting to unwieldy. I think regarding why someone would get into the field - it is unique to everyone. I wanted to be an architect in high school and didn't even know what planning was until undergrad. My roommate in grad school was a ceramics major in undergrad. My other friends in grad school had preservation, poli sci, anthropology, psychology degrees. Everyone got into planning on their own path. I would guess the biggest factor is having a comprehensive/exhaustive way of thinking - planners need to be thinking about whole systems while they work. But in most graduate programs, your undergraduate degree is irrelevant and often it's more helpful to have something unrelated to planning - it can help you bring in a different perspective.
As far as types of jobs, it changes a lot. When I started, TOD was lucrative so that's where I headed but that does not seem to be as in-demand as it was in 2014. The biggest choice will be between private sector and public sector - private will pay more, but be more stressful (in my experience). Public sector could better expose you to communities but your ability to serve them will be limited by the politics of your city/jurisdiction.
Extremely timely video as I'm about to graduate in December.
good luck!
@@radicalplanning Thank you!
@Radical Planning how does a radical planning approach meet with the #LandBack movement?
The overlap is significant - Land Back and a radical planning approach are both about changing who controls the land for the purpose of restoring justice, eliminating capitalist alienation, redistributing wealth and power to the people, and becoming stewards of the land to save the environment. Radical planning itself is a tool so I would not say that it is universally applied by all people in the Land Back movement but I do know that there are many radical planners who are specifically fighting for indigenous power.
can you do a video on books or education resources on urban planning? Specially for if I’m looking to see if it’s something I’m interested in or wanting to learn more about
i recommend reading the book “Capital City” by Sam Stein. it’s a good intro to the crises we are facing, how urban planning makes it worse, and what urban planners can do to move us away from bad planning
ty! @@radicalplanning
Environmental science major who accidentally just ended up in professional planning in Pennsylvania, do you have any resources or case studies for good design in PA or elsewhere?
This is really great. Would you be interested in doing an interview on my channel?