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partial list of chapters and cover for the Routledge handbook of Urban Design Practice.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice is coming out this fall. Look for my chapter "LGBTQ Inclusive Urban Design"

Kansas may have just passed a very mean bill regulating drivers licenses and bathrooms for gender presentation, identity, and sex at birth. see kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

'A transformative catalyst:' Developers unveil $208M apartment high-rise plan west of Kauffman Center - Kansas City Business Journal Local developers propose a 33-story, 392-unit apartment tower in place of a former Denny's restaurant west of the Kauffman Center.

Thirteen years ago, at least one of my students proposed a tall building on this site -- it's an island already with highways on two sides and the performing arts center on the east: www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

This! "The reason I yearn to worship God, whether at a gay bar or in a Meeting for Worship, is because I need to stay close to life’s source. I need saving, not from fiery punishment in the afterlife, but from the grip of the hells we’ve created in this world."

This! "The reason I yearn to worship God, whether at a gay bar or in a Meeting for Worship, is because I need to stay close to life’s source. I need saving, not from fiery punishment in the afterlife, but from the grip of the hells we’ve created in this world." Thank you Friend!

whenever i hear some social-media poisoned populist blaring about how we have more empty homes than homeless people--

Kansas City prepares its housing market for an influx of World Cup fans Kansas City expects 650,000 fans to attend World Cup games next June and July. Many of them will seek short-term rentals, which could temporarily affect the region’s housing market.

I'm quoted on NPR's marketplace on rental market stability during FIFA in #KCMO www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.

They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."

abc7.com/post/ontario...

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library Areas at low land elevations exhibit increased exposures to flooding. These exposures are exacerbated by the presence of community social vulnerability. This study examines the relationship between m...

An Examination of the Relationship Between Mean Land Elevation Levels and Social Vulnerability: A Case Study of Metropolitan Kansas City - Crowley - 2025 - Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Amazon Web Service incidents means I cannot sign on to CANVAS where my studio activity today is located.

I can't wait to see this article! It's been too long, Jason. I think last time I saw you was somewhere in a rainy natl forest in VA? 😂

@jttnncdcmd.bsky.social Well then I have to get you back on pronto. I am growing my hair out and have been poofing it up more, though I see it was sadly a little flat that morning.

an alum of MIT - signed and shared.

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...

As an MIT MCP Alum - I signed this.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Leaflet for Penn Valley Friends Meeting World Quaker Day Open House October 5 2025 11:30-2pm 4405 Gillham Rd Kansas City MO.

Ever wanted to find out about #Quakerism in Kansas City without attending a Meeting for Worship? Come to the Penn Valley Friends Meeting, World #Quaker Day Open House October 5, 11:30am - 2pm. #FWCC We are located at the corner of Charlotte and Gillham in the South Hyde Park neighborhood.

book cover and flyer for QTIG event October 9th.

The Queer and Trans Interest Group of ACSP is sponsoring our Queer Fireside Chat with Dr. Kevin Guyan on October 9 Noon CDT. Come hear about his new book The Rainbow Trap. Now approved for AICP CM credits! forms.gle/tqpy7phVUfR6... to get the Zoom link.

What UMKC students told The Beacon about Kansas City’s public transit growth The Beacon’s Community Journalism Lab representative Robert Stone heard from UMKC students on affordable housing, tax increment financing, vacant lots, transit expansion and equity.

#UMKC Urban Planning + Design students talk about transit and housing in #KC! thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...

Missing Jacksonville, Tampa, Louisville, Tucson -- not in any hurry to go to Florida....

Me with Vita on our porch.

Vita passed away yesterday...

Lewandowsky, S., et. al.
(2025). The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Not everyone can do the actions in the upper right quadrant. But, we need to find structures of support to enable these actions.

A chart showing the axis of acceptance against the axis of political support/dissent.

This is a very useful graphic on what scholars need to think about in the United States today. What is to be done? How to keep a career going at what cost? From the Anti-Autocracy Handbook p. 12 h/t Ladd Keith

Thank you for posting this!

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding

Highly recommend my fellow American scholars read the new Anti-Autocracy Handbook on this 4th of July, a "call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism." zenodo.org/records/1...

Today's a good day to read instead of doomscroll.

partial list of chapters and cover for the Routledge handbook of Urban Design Practice.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice is coming out this fall. Look for my chapter "LGBTQ Inclusive Urban Design"

Samuel Alito’s “Pride Puppy” Ruling Is a Disgrace to the Supreme Court The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.

Alito's opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is poisonous homophobia that gives parents a de facto right to ban books in public school classrooms. It's violently stigmatizing toward LGBTQ families and filled with lies and bigotry. Every justice who joined it should be ashamed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I sent the director a note about music: "Good Life" Inner City, "Back to Life" Soul II Soul' "Tears Run Rings" Marc Almond. Also "Like a Prayer" by Madonna had just come out -- as well as "Me, Myself and I" De La Soul. At least that was my Target City Hall playlist...