Stephanie Rouse, AICP is the co-host of the Booked on Planning podcast where she interviews authors of planning and urban design literature for biweekly episodes. She is the Livable Neighborhoods manager in the Lincoln Urban Development Department, leading the rehabilitation and development of affordable housing and a lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Community and Regional Planning. She is currently serving as Past President for the American Planning Association Nebraska Chapter.
A well-timed look at highway expansion projects’ human impact
Book review: “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways” tells the story of Texas residents’ decades-long battle to curb the impacts of three highway projects.
Reigniting the city-building revolution
Review: In “The Unfinished Metropolis," Benjamin Schneider argues for us to look abroad for help in returning to a long-lost American art: city-building.
Unarresting mobility: A conversation with Charles T. Brown
In “Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement," Charles T. Brown offers a blueprint for acknowledging — and beginning to overcome — the role of systemic racism in urban planning.
Are cities at risk of losing squirrels?
Book review: A common backyard forager could be in decline, but without the proper data we may not know until it’s too late. Nancy Castaldo’s "Squirrel" urges us to find out.
Book review: Co-ops, commons and the conundrum of cashing in on the American dream
Jonathan Tarleton’s "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" shows what happens when a loophole in housing legislation opens the door to the privatization of a common good — and when an affordable home suddenly becomes a commodity.