What is Urban Planning?

0:00 Quick Question Trick Question
3:09 The Cim-ulation
7:15 Mind the Gap
9:57 Mainstream Planning Theory
20:43 What is Planning?
30:26 Magnasanti
34:34 Neoliberal Urban Planning
40:36 Building an Alternative
48:51 Postmortem


Further Reading

Plan for Liberation - Curated reading list and collection of articles from a fellow radical planner:
https://www.planforliberation.space/


Progressive City - Journal showcasing the work of progressive planners around the world:
https://www.progressivecity.net/


Zoned Out Podcast - An exploration of the capitalist city and how a socialist city could replace it:
https://zonedoutpodcast.neocities.org...

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Sources

Holgersen 2020 - On Spatial Planning and Marxism: Looking Back, Going Forward
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...


LGR 2024 - SimCity 3000 25 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
   • SimCity 3000 25 Years Later: An LGR Retros...  


Papageorgiou and Schmidt 1983 - Freeway Traffic Modelling and Control (I only used this source for some images of the rational comprehensive process, but it's a good place to see how that theory worked in its heyday)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...


Polygon 2021 - Unboxing the hidden politics of SimCity
   • Unboxing the hidden politics of SimCity  


Scott and Roweis 1977 - Urban Planning in Theory and Practice: A Reappraisal
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...


Sound and Sophia 2024 - Hume's Law: The is/ought Gap
   • Why Science will NEVER be Able to Tell You...  


Stein 2019 - Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
https://www.versobooks.com/products/6...