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The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges: 1950-200?
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Maybe, but prob not in the way you would hope.
You can fight for your principles, for principles of justice or decency or whatever, but I would not ever expect to win any of those battles, especially early in your career.
Its kind of like I suggested to a kid about whether he should follow up w a company that contacted him again after they had ghosted him a few months earlier
I said you could have a job or your dignity
While allowing for some wiggle room in case there was a really insane mixup or miscommunication, etc. Those once in a lifetime misunderstandings happen a whole lot more than once in a lifetime.
Racsim/classism/caste system don't just exist in urban planning
They're everywhere always and may always be
So you can still study urban planning and do it as a profession and be a psedo-activist in your spare time and do legit meaningful useful work to try to counteract reactionary and conservative forces, both within urban planning and without.
A lot of learning activism imo is learning how to manage your expectations, emotions, learn or create an activist mentality/philosophy that allows you to do work and achieve achieve goals in spite of the myriad ongoing disappointments you will face.
I think trying to always learn 'how the world actually works' is important
That's necessary if you want to be effective as an activist
Which is supposed to be the point
Looking at institution analyses about urban planning and society and business and government and media and activism are all on the table.
One is this I just found -- I can't vouch for it except to say it looks serious, even if both authors are Ford professors -- I saw a mention of Rawls which is a positive sign:
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