Bruce Stiftel
@brucestiftel
Environmental planning and international development theorist at Georgia Tech [USA] #planningsky
Key 2026 #APAElections dates: • August 5 – Ballots available • September 4 – Voting closes Make your voice count. Vote today! plnn.org/4l5pZ5X American Planning Association
Memories of the 1st World Planning Schools Congress, 25 years ago in Shanghai at Tongji Uni, where the Shanghai Statement set the course for the @gpean-planning.bsky.social, now working in behalf of eleven planning school associations worldwide.
Congratulations to Genie Birch of @upenn.edu, recipient of the Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement in Planning History, presented yesterday at the International Planning History Society conference in Atlanta.
"China led the improvers. After years of public investment, every Chinese city in the index raised its health-care score. Improvements include expanded health coverage and progress towards a government target to have medical facilities accessible within a 15-minute walk of every resident."
The striking architecture of Aalto University University of Helsinki University of Tampere and the cities of southern Finland created a stunning backdrop for World Planning Schools Congress 2026 #wpsc2026 Credit to original photographers.
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Call for a DISCUSSIONS/DEBATES/COMMENTS EDITOR for Planning Theory (journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...) Call for a PODCAST EDITOR for Planning Theory (journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...) Call for an ESSAY EDITOR for Planning Theory ( journals.sagepub.com/.../call-for...)
The American Planning Association Board was at the mother ship last week giving input on the association's work plan for 2027. Thanks president Sue Schwartz and APA staff. #APA
The best way to remember and honor the men and women who risked everything for us is to fight neofascism — fight for a stronger democracy, fight for the rule of law and social justice, fight against bigotry. -- Robert Reich
Thurs at #WUF13 @gpean-planning.bsky.social highlights: CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: PLANNING FOR SAFE AND RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES BUILDING A GLOBAL NETWORK FOR CLIMATE-RESILIENT HOUSING FUTURE OF UN-HABITAT'S PARTNERSHIP WITH ACADEMIA AND RESEARCH @unhabitat-uni.bsky.social
Join GPEAN - Global Planning Education Association Network planners at the 13th World Urban Forum in Baku this week! WUF Academy program: drive.google.com/file/d/1NY1e... Full WUF Program: wuf.unhabitat.org/programme @rtpiplanners.bsky.social @gpean-planning.bsky.social
ATL Studies Symposium happening now! 22 sessions with speakers from 16 universities+. Closing keynote today at 4:30: There Is No Place For Us: Working, Homeless and Invisible in Atlanta Brian Goldstone Georgia State U Student Center East atlantastudies.org/2026/04/13/p...
Planners for Climate Action #wuf13 @WUF13Azerbaijan sessions: Building a Global Network for Climate-Resilient Housing (21 May 14h00 Multipurpose Room 3 Planning Tools for Climate Action (22 May 12h00 Urban Library room A) @CAPplanners @UCCRN @Habitat_org @Kingsfound @ISOCARP @gpean_planning
Academic involvement in this month's World Urban Forum is richer and more varied than in the past. #WUF13
Building a Global Network for Climate-Resilient Housing at #WUF13 Baku: 21 May '26, 14h00-15h30, Multipurpose Room 3. Build capacity for sharing policy solutions by practical experience for increasing resilience of the housing sector.
Overseas and global planners associations were represented at #NPC26. Among them: Eleanor Mohammed CAPplanners Tom Walsh RTPIplanners Wafa Al-Daily and Tijana Tufek Memišević ISOCARP NOSPlan_India Salvador Herrera Montes, Urbanistica
Go #jacketplanners go! Just a few of the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning alumni students and faculty at #npc26.
Team Patchwork of Ga Tech Planning is the first prize winner in the APA Student Planning and Design Competition!!! Congratulations Nick Lucovsky, Meryl Pawlick Andrew Sarphie, and Emma Uppelschoten!!!! #NPC26
American Planning Association officers and staff briefed briefed an #NPC26 Leadership Plenary yesterday about the association's Foresight work, Component Collaboration project, legislative policy work, and APA Foundation scholarships.
On the first Earth Day on April 22 of 1970, the Clearwater arrived to Washington, DC after an 8 day voyage delivering thousands of petition signatures in support of passage of the Clean Water Act. Join us: www.clearwater.org/engage
"What’s the point of having an expert on something in the classroom if that expert doesn’t get to decide what to say and not to say to students? If the board or the uni wants to micromanage, censor, tell us what to say and what not to say, the very idea of a university collapses." lnkd.in/ekpfWth7
"U.S. alliances rested on something larger: consultation, some measure of strategic continuity and the assumption that American power, however unevenly applied, operated inside a recognizable framework. That framework has collapsed." editions.ajc.com/.../26236acc...