Peace and Planning

Category: Bookshelf

  • On sins

    “I fear that there is a deep crack in our union, and I’m not sure I belong here anymore. Maybe the road can convince me otherwise.” This line was in a recent (and affecting) piece I read by a mother chronicling her 2,000-mile road trip up the US East Coast…

  • On vulnerability

    As mentioned in my previous post, I recently had the good fortune of being able to attend the 2025 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference, this year held in Minneapolis (stay tuned for a post on my thoughts about the Skyway system). I got to present some dissertation…

  • Streets and The Anxious Generation Part II

    Last week I shared some initial thoughts on Jon Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation, and the connections I saw between his diagnosis and prognosis of a significant social shift towards screens and my research about streets. Turns out there’s more where that came from! Towards the end of the book…

  • Streets and “The Anxious Generation”

    I recently read Jon Haidt’s The Anxious Generation and – like The Coddling of the American Mind and The Righteous Mind before it – found many of his points compelling. His main argument is that there has been a massive shift in the childhood experience (at least in the US…

  • Consciousness raising, a desk rejection, and your car supremacy story: what the early fight for abortion rights can teach us (me) about the right to peaceful mobility

    I’m almost done reading The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service. First of all, I’m ashamed to say I had no idea this history and group existed so it’s about time I learned about it. In addition to covering the effort’s shortcomings, the author treats readers to…

  • Going the Wrong Way on Rights of Way

    For my Conflict and Race class this semester, my favorite assignment was to read two books of my choosing and then create a discussion guide about them. I selected two recent reads: Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Dr. Mia Bay and Right of Way: Race, Class,…