Akira Drake Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 324605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akira Drake Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akira Drake |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUEZ A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4356-9032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nihilism, Post-Truth and the Moral Future of Planning: Edited by Andrew Zitcer
Hope and struggle in the policed city: Black criminalization and resistance in Philadelphia , by Menika B. Dirkson
Introduction to special issue: Urban Movements within and against Racial Capitalism: Housing as a Site of Oppression and Resistance
This special issue seeks to unpack key mechanisms and processes at the intersections of mobilizations around homelessness, excessive policing, evictions, public housing, and vacant building occupations. Three questions drive its contributions: (1) How are the rising tide of housing movements—as well as their repression—around the world (re)shaping urban politics today? (2) What insights have social, urban, and housing movement scholars brought to…
Reparative-advocacy planning to address racialized inequities in public school facilities
Broken Home”: (De)constructing the Moral Standards of Mobility for Atlanta’s Early Black Public Housing Families
The public housing program was designed as a stepping-stone into upward socioeconomic mobility when the first developments were constructed for White and Black households in the 1930s. White residents were able to save and move into private housing with greater speed than Black residents, who faced both external and internal constraints on their socioeconomic status. As a result of this decreased mobility, scholars and policymakers soon associate…
The ‘colorblindness’ of climate finance: How climate finance advances racial injustice in cities
The interactions between climate change and financial markets are increasingly becoming a topic of study, yet the ways in which climate finance reinforces new modes of racialization in urban climate adaptation projects remain an under-represented line of questioning in both academic and policy worlds. In order to uncover myriad processes of racialization occurring within financing modes that are mobilized to solve the climate crisis, this paper f…
What is Our City Doing for Us?”: Placing Collective Care into Atlanta’s Post‐Public Housing Movements
Throughout the 20 th century, housing movements in Atlanta were anchored by public housing tenant associations and a politics that materially and spatially addressed intersectional issues of discrimination in employment, welfare, education, and housing. I argue the strategies and outcomes of these movements collectivised, embedded, and placed Anneli Anttonen and Jorma Sipilä’s “care capital”—or an expansion of resources for care—in bell hooks’ “h…
Putting the ‘public’ back into public schools in the US
Public schools serve as vital centers of urban life. However, the long history of these centers are racialized, classed, and produce disparate outcomes across space in the United States. This commentary outlines this history and puts forth the need to re-center the increasingly diversifying and high-need public in the production and maintenance of these critical infrastructures
Movements at the fiscal/monetary crossroads: Financing a Green New Deal for schools in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's schools suffer from an astounding $4.5 billion infrastructure backlog, resulting in toxic school buildings that threaten the lives of predominantly low-income, nonwhite students, teachers, staff, and community members. To combat this issue amidst the ongoing climate crisis, movement groups have demanded policies that would both fix Philadelphia's schools and reduce building emissions. During their work, a question regarding financi…
Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighbourhoods, Poverty, and Planning
Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighbourhoods, Poverty, and Planning." The AAG Review of Books, 10(1), pp. 4–5
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020
Addressing Our Nation’s Toxic School Infrastructure in the Wake of Covid-19
The commentary argues that we need to address the wide variance in school building quality under and after COVID-19. Evidence suggests that historical underinvestment in school facility capital and maintenance has created unhealthy school buildings across the nation. Federal funding and research is necessary to ensure that schools are healthy places for educators, families, and youth even after the pandemic ends
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics
Gentrification research focuses on timing and variation; how the racial makeup of cities and neighborhoods influences its extent; and the policies that foster or combat it. Most examines places with continuing or recent gentrification and majority-White leadership, such as New York City and San Francisco. We build on this by analyzing a majority-Black city where fear of gentrification is increasing, but gentrification is not widespread. To analyz…
Pool: A Social History of Segregation
As of the 2022 summer season, the City of Philadelphia has sixty-three municipal pools open and operating, one of the highest per-capita numbers of public pools in the United States. Across the country, tightened municipal budgets for recreational activities (and that fund things such as lifeguards who work in the interest of public safety and health), have shuttered public pools. Amid some of the hottest daytime and nighttime temperatures, with …
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing
"This book explores the typically overlooked positive role of public housing--in a political, social, and spatial sense--in facilitating social movements and activism. With Atlanta as the case study, the author suggests that the decline in support for public housing, often touted as a positive (neoliberal) development, actually has negative consequences for social justice and nascent activism, especially among black women. Urban renewal policies …
Power-difference couplings’ and white supremacy in the Rust Belt
Let’s Get Ready to Crumble: Black Municipal Leadership and Public Housing Transformation in the United States
U.S. cities transform public housing. Black municipal leadership (BML) may influence the scale and character of public housing removal and redevelopment. Informed by the “Black urban regime” literature, this study assesses whether presence and duration of BML, coupled with other factors, explains variation in public housing transformation for a sample of large cities. Its findings suggest that, controlling for other factors, BML is associated wit…
More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
The demolition of high-rise public housing developments in cities across the United States has spurred popular and academic inquiry into the legacy of the public housing programme. Recent historica
From Lemmings to Guinea Pigs: The Role of the Urban Poor in Latin American Cities (Review Article)
Let’s Get Ready to Crumble: Black Municipal Leadership and Public Housing Transformation in the United States
U.S. cities transform public housing. Black municipal leadership (BML) may influence the scale and character of public housing removal and redevelopment. Informed by the “Black urban regime” literature, this study assesses whether presence and duration of BML, coupled with other factors, explains variation in public housing transformation for a sample of large cities. Its findings suggest that, controlling for other factors, BML is associated wit…
What is Our City Doing for Us?”: Placing Collective Care into Atlanta’s Post‐Public Housing Movements
Throughout the 20 th century, housing movements in Atlanta were anchored by public housing tenant associations and a politics that materially and spatially addressed intersectional issues of discrimination in employment, welfare, education, and housing. I argue the strategies and outcomes of these movements collectivised, embedded, and placed Anneli Anttonen and Jorma Sipilä’s “care capital”—or an expansion of resources for care—in bell hooks’ “h…
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics
Gentrification research focuses on timing and variation; how the racial makeup of cities and neighborhoods influences its extent; and the policies that foster or combat it. Most examines places with continuing or recent gentrification and majority-White leadership, such as New York City and San Francisco. We build on this by analyzing a majority-Black city where fear of gentrification is increasing, but gentrification is not widespread. To analyz…
Broken Home”: (De)constructing the Moral Standards of Mobility for Atlanta’s Early Black Public Housing Families
The public housing program was designed as a stepping-stone into upward socioeconomic mobility when the first developments were constructed for White and Black households in the 1930s. White residents were able to save and move into private housing with greater speed than Black residents, who faced both external and internal constraints on their socioeconomic status. As a result of this decreased mobility, scholars and policymakers soon associate…
The ‘colorblindness’ of climate finance: How climate finance advances racial injustice in cities
The interactions between climate change and financial markets are increasingly becoming a topic of study, yet the ways in which climate finance reinforces new modes of racialization in urban climate adaptation projects remain an under-represented line of questioning in both academic and policy worlds. In order to uncover myriad processes of racialization occurring within financing modes that are mobilized to solve the climate crisis, this paper f…
Movements at the fiscal/monetary crossroads: Financing a Green New Deal for schools in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's schools suffer from an astounding $4.5 billion infrastructure backlog, resulting in toxic school buildings that threaten the lives of predominantly low-income, nonwhite students, teachers, staff, and community members. To combat this issue amidst the ongoing climate crisis, movement groups have demanded policies that would both fix Philadelphia's schools and reduce building emissions. During their work, a question regarding financi…
Addressing Our Nation’s Toxic School Infrastructure in the Wake of Covid-19
The commentary argues that we need to address the wide variance in school building quality under and after COVID-19. Evidence suggests that historical underinvestment in school facility capital and maintenance has created unhealthy school buildings across the nation. Federal funding and research is necessary to ensure that schools are healthy places for educators, families, and youth even after the pandemic ends
Putting the ‘public’ back into public schools in the US
Public schools serve as vital centers of urban life. However, the long history of these centers are racialized, classed, and produce disparate outcomes across space in the United States. This commentary outlines this history and puts forth the need to re-center the increasingly diversifying and high-need public in the production and maintenance of these critical infrastructures
From Lemmings to Guinea Pigs: The Role of the Urban Poor in Latin American Cities (Review Article)
More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
The demolition of high-rise public housing developments in cities across the United States has spurred popular and academic inquiry into the legacy of the public housing programme. Recent historica
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing
"This book explores the typically overlooked positive role of public housing--in a political, social, and spatial sense--in facilitating social movements and activism. With Atlanta as the case study, the author suggests that the decline in support for public housing, often touted as a positive (neoliberal) development, actually has negative consequences for social justice and nascent activism, especially among black women. Urban renewal policies …
Power-difference couplings’ and white supremacy in the Rust Belt
Let’s Get Ready to Crumble: Black Municipal Leadership and Public Housing Transformation in the United States
U.S. cities transform public housing. Black municipal leadership (BML) may influence the scale and character of public housing removal and redevelopment. Informed by the “Black urban regime” literature, this study assesses whether presence and duration of BML, coupled with other factors, explains variation in public housing transformation for a sample of large cities. Its findings suggest that, controlling for other factors, BML is associated wit…
Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighbourhoods, Poverty, and Planning
Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighbourhoods, Poverty, and Planning." The AAG Review of Books, 10(1), pp. 4–5
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020
Addressing Our Nation’s Toxic School Infrastructure in the Wake of Covid-19
The commentary argues that we need to address the wide variance in school building quality under and after COVID-19. Evidence suggests that historical underinvestment in school facility capital and maintenance has created unhealthy school buildings across the nation. Federal funding and research is necessary to ensure that schools are healthy places for educators, families, and youth even after the pandemic ends
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics
Gentrification research focuses on timing and variation; how the racial makeup of cities and neighborhoods influences its extent; and the policies that foster or combat it. Most examines places with continuing or recent gentrification and majority-White leadership, such as New York City and San Francisco. We build on this by analyzing a majority-Black city where fear of gentrification is increasing, but gentrification is not widespread. To analyz…
Pool: A Social History of Segregation
As of the 2022 summer season, the City of Philadelphia has sixty-three municipal pools open and operating, one of the highest per-capita numbers of public pools in the United States. Across the country, tightened municipal budgets for recreational activities (and that fund things such as lifeguards who work in the interest of public safety and health), have shuttered public pools. Amid some of the hottest daytime and nighttime temperatures, with …
Putting the ‘public’ back into public schools in the US
Public schools serve as vital centers of urban life. However, the long history of these centers are racialized, classed, and produce disparate outcomes across space in the United States. This commentary outlines this history and puts forth the need to re-center the increasingly diversifying and high-need public in the production and maintenance of these critical infrastructures
Movements at the fiscal/monetary crossroads: Financing a Green New Deal for schools in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's schools suffer from an astounding $4.5 billion infrastructure backlog, resulting in toxic school buildings that threaten the lives of predominantly low-income, nonwhite students, teachers, staff, and community members. To combat this issue amidst the ongoing climate crisis, movement groups have demanded policies that would both fix Philadelphia's schools and reduce building emissions. During their work, a question regarding financi…
Broken Home”: (De)constructing the Moral Standards of Mobility for Atlanta’s Early Black Public Housing Families
The public housing program was designed as a stepping-stone into upward socioeconomic mobility when the first developments were constructed for White and Black households in the 1930s. White residents were able to save and move into private housing with greater speed than Black residents, who faced both external and internal constraints on their socioeconomic status. As a result of this decreased mobility, scholars and policymakers soon associate…
The ‘colorblindness’ of climate finance: How climate finance advances racial injustice in cities
The interactions between climate change and financial markets are increasingly becoming a topic of study, yet the ways in which climate finance reinforces new modes of racialization in urban climate adaptation projects remain an under-represented line of questioning in both academic and policy worlds. In order to uncover myriad processes of racialization occurring within financing modes that are mobilized to solve the climate crisis, this paper f…
What is Our City Doing for Us?”: Placing Collective Care into Atlanta’s Post‐Public Housing Movements
Throughout the 20 th century, housing movements in Atlanta were anchored by public housing tenant associations and a politics that materially and spatially addressed intersectional issues of discrimination in employment, welfare, education, and housing. I argue the strategies and outcomes of these movements collectivised, embedded, and placed Anneli Anttonen and Jorma Sipilä’s “care capital”—or an expansion of resources for care—in bell hooks’ “h…
Hope and struggle in the policed city: Black criminalization and resistance in Philadelphia , by Menika B. Dirkson
Introduction to special issue: Urban Movements within and against Racial Capitalism: Housing as a Site of Oppression and Resistance
This special issue seeks to unpack key mechanisms and processes at the intersections of mobilizations around homelessness, excessive policing, evictions, public housing, and vacant building occupations. Three questions drive its contributions: (1) How are the rising tide of housing movements—as well as their repression—around the world (re)shaping urban politics today? (2) What insights have social, urban, and housing movement scholars brought to…
Reparative-advocacy planning to address racialized inequities in public school facilities
Nihilism, Post-Truth and the Moral Future of Planning: Edited by Andrew Zitcer
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Politics (6 works)