Planners for Democracy

Call for lectures: Anti-Racism and Global Architectural History GAHTC stands in solidarity with ongoing protests for racial justice and against the murder of Black and Indigenous peoples now and throughout history in the name of white supremacy. For too long, architectural history has been complicit with this violence by contributing to a false narrative of Euro...

Why Hundreds Of Completely New Cities Are Being Built Around The World Asia and Africa's economic futures are inherently tied to new city building and development. These are the places where the money is going and the investment opportunities are arising.

"A future in which ISPs are owned by local governments, small businesses, nonprofit community groups, and the people they serve are the path forward and the only realistic way of ending big telecom’s stranglehold on America.

In Detroit, the Equitable Internet Initiative is building community-owned wireless internet infrastructure in towns that big telecom won’t touch. Hundreds of towns have built their own internet service providers. Rural communities are putting wireless internet antennas on top of mountains, grain silos, and tall trees.

The fastest internet connections in the United States are provided by local governments, not big telecom. In Southern California, Tribal Digital Village is using unused television spectrum to deliver internet. All over the country, big telecom is being rejected and subverted, and you do not need to have a pile of money, an army of lawyers, or a degree in network engineering to take action."

To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet We must end our reliance​ on big telecom monopolies and build decentralized, affordable, locally owned internet infrastructure.

The Land Question Why aren’t we building more homes? This has been the perennial question in housing policy, as initiative after initiative seems to have made too little headway. But, as Daniel Bentley explains in t…