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Creator of Embedded Planning Praxis | Website: c1typlann3r.blog + @c1typlann3r | Everything on here reflects my personal views |

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Edwin Davies @edwinjdavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
CITY OF QUARTZ by Mike Davis - An engrossing account of the forces that shaped LA throughout the 19th and 20th century. Published on eve of the riots, it captures so many elements of what made an eruption inevitable, but also has many echoes of our modern sickness on display.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rooted in Safety, Rising in Joy: Walk Audits During ICE Raids in South Central LA Saturday, October 3, 2026, 10:30-11:45am APA California Conference 2026 Los Angeles, CA c1typlann3r.blog/2026/09/19/w...
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Walk Audits During ICE Raids in South Central LA
Rooted in Safety, Rising in Joy: Walk Audits During ICE Raids in South Central LA Saturday, October 3, 2026, 10:30-11:45 a.m. | APA CA Conference 2026, Los Angeles, CA Speakers:
 – Emily Ocegueda: …
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Full AICP ✔️ 📐 🏙️ 🏡 🌳 c1typlann3r.blog/2026/09/17/f...
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Full AICP
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm gonna start using @bsky.app to bookmark articles to read. "10 Abandoned Cities Reclaimed by Nature That Are Eerily Beautiful," Charlotte Collins and Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, Sept 15, 2026. www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/aban...
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10 Abandoned Cities Reclaimed by Nature That Are Eerily Beautiful
Whether they’ve been encased in greenery or flooded with sand, the elements have overtaken these abandoned locales
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Trond @trondfroestad.com · 27/09/2025
Edward Soja wrote in Thirdspace: “My objective[…]is to encourage you to think differently about the meanings and significance of space and those related concepts that compose and comprise the inherent spatiality of human life.” His words echo in the overlooked, reminding us that space isn’t neutral.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reskeet with your home river The L.A. River en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ang...
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Los Angeles River - Wikipedia
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Mayor Cooley @mayorcooley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RS with your home river South Central does in fact have a river. It's called Compton Creek 😎
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Mike Davis: Ecology of Fear and City of Quartz.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
this is a major component of why embedded planning praxis was created 😬
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 31/08/2026
that being said teenage sex and death at camp miasma is a very fun movie
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Google has been demonstrating bootlicker behavior obediently renaming bodies of water and now this
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When Gemini sounds like Fox News. By the way I don’t use this crap. I entered the question on Google and now the default is this AI nonsense
Gemini chat calling May Day “radical socialist”
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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Edward Soja (1989):
a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate. Everything imaginable appears to be available in this micro-urb but real places are difficult to find, its spaces confuse an effective cognitive mapping, its pastiche of superficial reflections bewilder co-ordination and encourage submission instead. Entry by land is forbidding to those who carelessly walk but entrance is nevertheless encouraged at many different levels. Once inside, however, it becomes daunting to get out again without bureaucratic assistance. In so many ways, its architecture recapitulates and reflects the sprawling manufactured spaces of Los Angeles.
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Heidi Haaland @heidiehaaland.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
See: City of Quartz by Mike Davis
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
AICP Candidate 📐 🏙️ 🏡 🌳 c1typlann3r.blog/2026/09/05/a...
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AICP Candidate
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The first time I thought about the politics of public benches was when I read Mike Davis' discussion of deliberately uncomfortable benches as hostile architecture in his City of Quartz.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/08/2026
"Sure, this city isn’t near major job markets and doesn't have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire." buff.ly/03WTZvh
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Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else
“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
And UCLA had the postmodern geographers with Edward Soja
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
From the archives. My article, “Abolish Fines at LA County Library.” And we did. c1typlann3r.medium.com/abolish-fine...
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Abolish Fines at LA County Library
This is the ethical path forward.
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Black Bile @blackbile.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
started reading mike davis city of quartz
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SCI-Arc in Los Angeles is developing a PhD in Architecture & Design, as noted in the last 2 sentences of this blog post. Exciting! This will offer a new pathway in California to a doctorate in architecture building upon longtime programs at UCLA & UC Berkeley @sciarc.bsky.social lnkd.in/p/gw4hjbrA
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SCI-Arc is pleased to announce the launch of its new Accelerated Master of Science (M.S.) programs, expanding opportunities for professional degree students to pursue highly specialized… | SCI-Arc
SCI-Arc is pleased to announce the launch of its new Accelerated Master of Science (M.S.) programs, expanding opportunities for professional degree students to pursue highly specialized, forward-think...
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Los Angeles Walks, Bike LA, and the Florence-Firestone Community Organization are planning something to link up Florence-Firestone, Watts, and Willowbrook. Stay tuned! c1typlann3r.blog/2026/08/23/f...
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Florence-Firestone, Watts, Willowbrook
Los Angeles Walks, BikeLA, and the Florence-Firestone Community Organization are planning something to link up Florence-Firestone, Watts, and Willowbrook. Stay tuned!
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
From the archives: My article, "I Recognize This Bureaucracy. It Almost Killed Embedded Planning." medium.com/@c1typlann3r...
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I Recognize This Bureaucracy
It almost killed Embedded Planning.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I appreciate this profile of my work and life *balanced* in the newsletter The Fulcrum. "Your Local Altruist: The Embedded Planner" workpurposebalance.beehiiv.com/p/your-local...
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Local Altruist: The Embedded Planner & Purpose-Driven Planning
Discover how urban planners balance purpose-driven work with life: meet Jonathan Pacheco Bell and his embedded planning movement.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hostile Architecture: Design Against Humanity is a 2026 documentary by students of Eastern Middle School in East Silver Spring, Maryland. As one of their interviewees, I was hella impressed with the team’s analysis, critique, & recommendations. Video posted with permission. youtu.be/RKvXlNcBgjY?...
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Hostile Architecture: Design Against Humanity
YouTube video by Jonathan Pacheco Bell, MAUP, MLIS
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Felonious love is the summer 2026 meme c1typlann3r.blog/2026/07/03/e...
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Embedded Planning Praxis For the Win
Shout out to Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov and their felonious love for giving us the meme of Summer 2026
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I wrote a brief reflection about the meaning of Jackass: Best and Last as an aging Gen X superfan. medium.com/@c1typlann3r...
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Vulnerable Jackass
It was a good run.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I wrote about stumbling upon an abandoned Fosters Freeze in Firebaugh on a road trip from L.A. to the Bay. Article, “Forgotten Firebaugh Fosters Freeze Fotoessay” on @medium.com: c1typlann3r.medium.com/forgotten-fi...
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Forgotten Firebaugh Fosters Freeze Fotoessay
Ice cream memories in California’s Central Valley.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Shout out to Billy Cooney for citing me & Embedded Planning Praxis in this Southern Urbanism piece, "Where Did the Planners Go?" www.southernurbanism.org/p/where-did-... @southernurbanism.bsky.social
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Where Did the Planners Go?
How Planning’s Declining Influence Led Cities Astray, and What To Do About It
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Cake fail at my local corporate supermercado c1typlann3r.blog/2026/06/04/s...
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Should We Consider This A Cake Fail?
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I wrote a brief reflection about Frank Gehry after visiting the Stata Center at MIT c1typlann3r.medium.com/aesthetics-a...
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Aesthetics and Polemics: A Reflection on Frank Gehry After Visiting the Stata Center at MIT
From corrugated metal to the world stage.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This week I sat for 2 interviews about Hostile Architecture. 1st with students from UCLA Luskin, 2nd with a student reporter at Western Washington University. I see the future of critical planning praxis in good hands. @uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social @wwu.edu c1typlann3r.blog/tag/hostile-...
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Hostile Architecture – @c1typlann3r.blog
Posts about Hostile Architecture written by Jonathan Pacheco Bell, MAUP+MLIS @c1typlann3r
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/05/2026
The longer you look at this, the worse it gets
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Ryan Sophia McCall (菲菲) @scudubydubop.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Now have Nolan adapt James Joyce
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
do you think it would be good for my career if I posted on linkedin that I mainly live off a large container of protein powder I found in the street
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doc shartman @docshartman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
[7am, hungover, gonna be late for work, staring in the mirror at the saddest looking piece of shit I’ve ever seen in my life] da greatest to ever do it baby
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Continuing to use the KNOCK LA Voter Guide in particular for the Superior Court Judges knock-la.com/knock-la-pro... @knockdotla.bsky.social
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The Knock LA Progressive Voter Guide for the June 2026 Primary Election - Knock LA
June 2 is coming faster than you think! Read on for the latest Progressive Voter Guide from Knock LA.
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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I read City of Quartz for an architecture/planning seminar in college, long ago. I should re-read! (Have only read PKD's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which I loved in my teens. Need more time to read everything!!!!)
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Brought a friend along on the trip.
City of Quartz, Mike Davis' indispensable history and portrait of Los Angeles in the early 90s
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Jack @probablylosingit.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Maybe this is too regional but City of Quartz is a great history of how Los Angeles developed into what it was in the 90s and speaks to broader US trends in urban development and racial politics
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
what would you assign students as a reading for a history course on the US in 1990s?
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Idea: Luddite University.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I closed my recent guest talk at Cal Poly Pomona URP on the words of the late Mike Davis. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/05/04/n...
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Never Give Up the Streets
In my recent guest talk, “Critical Public Space Planning: Challenges & Possibilities,” we explored this question: Is critical public space planning practice possible? Drawing from my life exper…
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
One of my favorite reads by the author of Applied Divinity Studies on Nintil blog How Substack Became Milquetoast nintil.com/substack-mil...
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Nintil - [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
The internet's best blog!
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I wrote this in 2021:
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Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
Whether controlled by an artificial intelligence or a remote human operator, armed police robots and drones pose an unacceptable threat to civilians. The ongoing revolution in the field of robotics re...
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
My article Googling "New Regionalism" was originally written in 2005 and references links and webpages from the old internet. medium.com/@c1typlann3r... @theoldinternet.bsky.social
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Googling “New Regionalism”
Search engine results from 2005.
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thank you, Whittier College and community members. Embedded Planning Praxis is now worldwide. c1typlann3r.blog/2026/05/02/w...
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Whittier College and Community Members Embrace Embedded Planning Praxis
Big thanks to Professor Cinzia Fissore, environmental science students, and the Hartley House at Whittier College for hosting my guest talk, “The Strength of Street Knowledge: Embedded Planning as …
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
the word " yolo " .... i will never say such shit
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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
At Good Neighbor Bar in Altadena this weekend one of the awesome bartenders asked for book recommendations. I recommended City of Quartz, Mike Davis. I gave my stump speech on the importance of Mike Davis and this book, especially Ch 4: Fortress LA, Mike’s inaugural critique of Hostile Architecture.
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