Category: Car Blanche
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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…
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On attention
To keep activity up as my energy dipped with the change of clocks and seasons, I experimented this fall with taking Tulip the folding bike for rides along the National Mall. These rides filled me with gratitude that this light form of exercise served triple duty, not only getting me…
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On critical transportation studies
I recently read a fresh-off-the-press journal article written by a group of scholars from across the world on the “state of the art” in transportation policy research. They first searched more than 8,000 abstracts from three leading transportation policy journals to determine the 20 categories most commonly referenced in the…
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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…
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Charting a path to planning as peacebuilding through an ethics of care at ACSP
I’m excited to be presenting my paper “Moving from an Ethos of Cars to an Ethics of Care: Urban Planners as Urban Peacebuilders” at this week’s Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning – ACSP conference. I’ll be joined by my terrific fellow panelists in the session “Big Philosophical Questions in…
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On intentionality
Being on a podcast was a first for me, and of course immediately after I saw the episode posted I listened to it to see which things I wish I had said, said differently, or not said at all. One of the things I wish I had articulated more clearly…
Peace and Planning 