Category: Car Blanche
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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…
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My first podcast episode 😬🎙️🤓
Instead of a blog post this week, I’m sharing one professional milestone update: I’m really grateful to have had the opportunity to discuss my paper on the conflict system of vehicular violence with Streetsblog’s Kea Wilson on her podcast “The Brake.” It was surreal (and humbling) to talk with someone…
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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…
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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…
Peace and Planning 