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Developing #EmbeddedPlanning Praxis to get planners out of their desks and into the streets. Read “We Cannot Plan From Our Desks” and more ⤵️

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3 years ago

We can thank Dr. Courtney Knapp @anarchademic for pushing @c1typlann3r to *define* Embedded Planning praxis after a guest talk at @cpp_urp! That challenge led to @c1typlann3r’s definition . . .
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Repost from @urbanplanningisnotboring 🔁

What is Embedded Planning Praxis??

🎙In our most recent episode, we sat down with @c1typlann3r to discuss the planning praxis that he invented and defines as:

The planner moves with intention to work on the ground in the community in order to:

⚪️ understand people’s needs

⚪️ build trust and authentic relationships

⚪️ increase participation for marginalized communities through street-level engagement

⚪️ participate in daily community life and

⚪️ advance equity

It's a praxis because it puts theory into action to better the world.✨🌏🤝

#urbanplanning #embeddedplanning #community #partnership #engagement taken in Feet on the Street by @embeddedplanning

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4 years ago

Repost via @passionateplanning 🔁

What does embedded planning look like in your practice? If you don't already, give Jonathan a follow @embeddedplanning
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#urbanplanning #wecannotplanfromourdesks #embeddedplanning #embeddedplanningpraxis #communityplanning #publicinterest #urbanplanner taken in Feet on the Ground by @embeddedplanning

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4 years ago

Repost from @polscience.insta 🔁

Edward W. Soja (1940–2015) was an American geographer and urban theorist best known for bringing space and geography to the center of social and political theory. Influenced by Marxism, critical theory, and the work of Henri Lefebvre, Soja developed the idea of “spatial justice” to show how social inequalities are produced and reproduced through the organization of space. His major works include Postmodern Geographies (1989), Thirdspace (1996), and Seeking Spatial Justice (2010). Much of his work focused on cities, urban inequality, Los Angeles, and the relationship between space, power, and social justice.

Seeking Spatial Justice
Edward W. Soja argues that space is not neutral. Cities and landscapes are shaped by political decisions, economic inequalities, and social struggles, meaning that injustice is also produced through the organization of space. In Seeking Spatial Justice (2010), Soja develops the idea that where people live, work, move, and access resources matters for justice.

For Soja, spatial justice means challenging the unequal distribution of opportunities, resources, services, and power across geographical space. Seeking spatial justice therefore involves transforming the spatial structures that reproduce inequality and creating cities and societies in which people have a greater say in shaping the spaces they inhabit.

#edwardsoja #spatialjustice #geography #urbanstudies #socialjustice taken in Los Angeles, California by @embeddedplanning

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4 days ago

Rooted in Safety, Rising in Joy: Walk Audits During ICE Raids in South Central LA

10/3/26, 10:30-11:45am
APA CA Conference 2026, Los Angeles, CA

Speakers: —Emily Ocegueda: Emerging Planner, Florence-Firestone resident
—Briana Villaverde: Urban Planner, Just4LA
—Alexandra Ramirez: Executive Director, Los Angeles Walks
—Jonathan Pacheco Bell, AICP: Co-President, Florence-Firestone Community Organization

Brief:
How do we plan for safe streets during ICE raids? This session explores a Walk + Roll audit in @FlorenceFirestone in South Central LA centering joy, creativity & safety over fear. Learn to use storytelling, reflection & zine-making to turn walk audits into healing tools for mobility justice.

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How do we plan for safe streets when simply being in public space carries risk? In South Central LA’s Florence-Firestone community, active ICE enforcement disrupted a planned walk audit, forcing organizers & residents to reconsider not just how to assess streets, but what questions the assessment should begin with. Rather than centering the audit on traditional infrastructure deficiencies alone, Los Angeles Walks, Florence-Firestone Community Organization, the Vision Zero Artist in Residence & community members grounded the process in a 7-Generation visioning exercise that asked: For whom are streets meant to be safe & for what purposes?

This session shares how we restructured the Florence-Firestone Walk + Roll event to prioritize safety, community storytelling & reflection before observation. Participants engaged in a facilitated walk that uplifted lived experiences, memory, & care – followed by a creative zine-making session that helped translate stories into shared values, priorities, & visions for safer streets. Infrastructure conditions were still observed but interpreted through a relational & cultural lens instead of a checklist.

Panelists will reflect on how this approach shifted facilitation, documentation, outcomes, & what it revealed about safety, belonging, & accountability in communities facing surveillance and displacement. The session highlights both the possibilities & limits of vision-centered engagement in mobility planning.

[Continued] taken in Florence Firestone District by @embeddedplanning

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24 days ago

Thank you to the University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress for providing us a review copy of the new book, Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System (2026), by Conor Harrison. taken in United States by @embeddedplanning

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a month ago

Repost from @portcitydaily 🔁
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NCDOT removes unauthorized benches from state-owned roadways, city benches still in limbo

WILMINGTON — Some bus benches recently placed at Wave Transit stops by the Democratic Socialists of America were removed Thursday by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. NCDOT spokesperson Veronica Scott said the agency cleared “approximately 20” on Aug. 6. Scott confirmed to Port City Daily: “We were recently made aware of new bus benches […]

https://portcitydaily.com taken in Wilmington, North Carolina by @embeddedplanning

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2 months ago

@everyverything taken in Panopticon by @embeddedplanning

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2 months ago

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Repost from @southbronxunite 🔁
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Saturday, July 11 from 12–4 PM at Maria Solá Green Space (128 Lincoln Ave)

Free admission. Free food. Everyone’s welcome. RSVP form in our bio.

Join us for the HEArts Summer Festival: Spoken Word & Hip Hop Cypher

HEArts stands for Health, Education, and Arts. For us, those three are one thing. Our culture is our heartbeat. It connects us, it heals us, and it gives us the strength to fight for a better future.

The arts are how we share our stories, imagine new possibilities for the South Bronx, and build together. When our culture thrives, our whole community thrives.

Pull up on July 11th to celebrate that.

On the mic and in the garden:

🎤 Poetry Readings

🕺 Bboy & Bgirl Cypher

🎨 Graff Workshop

👂 Auricular Therapy

🛍 Community Market

Featuring:

🎤 Bonafide Rojas (@bonafiderojas )

🎙 Bom5 (@bom5_mw)

🎨 Sienide (@sienide)

☯️ Sifu Walter Bosque (@walter58691)

🎧 DJ Charlie Hustle (@djcharliehustlemusic)

& more!

RSVP in our bio.

First image: Mr Henry Chalfant
Other images: @paganimages

#SouthBronx #HipHop taken in South Bronx, New York City by @embeddedplanning

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3 months ago

🏴 taken in Empire State Building by @embeddedplanning

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3 months ago

Repost from @planningcollab 🔁

Community engagement is more than hosting a public meeting.

Effective engagement means meeting people where they are, removing barriers to participation, and creating spaces where residents feel heard and valued.

The goal isn’t simply participation — it’s trust.

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#CommunityEngagement #UrbanPlanning #PublicParticipation taken in Trust by @embeddedplanning

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3 months ago

Repost from @plannersnetwork 🔁

In the latest post in our series “Keeping the ‘Public’ in Public Space”, @owenmarh examines as an experiment outside of commercial real estate and financialization, where “(t)he tenants of Echo Park Lake were the planners of their community.”

www.progressivecity.net taken in Echo Park, Los Angeles by @embeddedplanning

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4 months ago