Booked on Planning

Updated: 26 Aug 2025 • 89 episodes
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Booked on Planning is a podcast that goes deep into the planning books that have helped shape the world of community and regional planning. We dive into the books and interview the authors to glean the most out of the literature important for preparing for AICP certification and just expanding your knowledge base. ​We are all busy with our day to day lives which is why we condense the most important material into short 30 minute episodes for your commute, workout, or while you are cleaning up around the house. Join us while we get Booked on Planning.

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26 Aug 2025 • EN

Before Gentrification

The racial wealth gap in Washington DC isn"t what you think it is. While conventional wisdom suggests Black families couldn"t access homeownership due to racist housing practices, author Tanya Maria Golash-Boza reveals a more complex and troubling reality. Drawing from her personal experience growing up in DC"s Petwort

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12 Aug 2025 • EN

Gentrifier

What happens when you win a "free house" in one of America"s most complicated real estate markets? Author Anne Elizabeth Moore pulls back the curtain on her experience receiving a donated house in Detroit through a writer"s residency program that promised to solve her housing concerns while supporting her creative work

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22 Jul 2025 • EN

The Cities We Need

What makes our neighborhoods feel like home isn"t just the buildings that surround us but the countless human connections that happen within them. Author Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani spent decades exploring this phenomenon by asking residents to guide her through their neighborhoods, showing her the places that matter most

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08 Jul 2025 • EN

Miami in the Anthropocene

The ground beneath our cities is shifting—literally in coastal areas facing sea level rise, but also conceptually as we grapple with what urbanism means in an era of profound environmental, technological, and social transformation.  Stephanie Wakefield"s provocative exploration of Miami as a laboratory for climate adap

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24 Jun 2025 • EN

Resilience Matters 2025

Resilience is much more than just bouncing back after a disaster. Over the past decade, as climate impacts have intensified, our understanding of what makes communities truly resilient has evolved dramatically. In this conversation with Laurie Mazur, editor of Island Press"s "Resilience Matters: 10 Years of Transformat

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Addiction, mental illness, or poverty may explain why an individual may lose their housing—but these factors fail to explain why Seattle has five times more homelessness than Chicago. Through rigorous analysis, Colburn demonstrates that high rent prices and low vacancy rates are the true culprits behind regional homele

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