Bruce Stiftel
@brucestiftel.bsky.social
Environmental planning and international development theorist at Georgia Tech [USA] #planningsky
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Bruce Stiftel
@brucestiftel.bsky.social
· Jan 13
New additions just listed. Eager to include more planning scholars from outside the Anglo-American orbit; please suggest.
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The United States’ “sweeping retreat from multilateral cooperation signals a troubling misunderstanding of the essential role that culture and heritage play in fostering peace, resilience, innovation and shared prosperity worldwide.”
@iccrom.bsky.social @theartnewspaper.bsky.social
#EuropaNostra
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#EuropaNostra
January 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
The United States’ “sweeping retreat from multilateral cooperation signals a troubling misunderstanding of the essential role that culture and heritage play in fostering peace, resilience, innovation and shared prosperity worldwide.”
@iccrom.bsky.social @theartnewspaper.bsky.social
#EuropaNostra
@iccrom.bsky.social @theartnewspaper.bsky.social
#EuropaNostra
Stepping away from involvement with these agencies will push the world away from directions the US prefers, will undermine US interests, and will handicap global progress in many important areas.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Trump Withdraws the U.S. From More International Organizations
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Stepping away from involvement with these agencies will push the world away from directions the US prefers, will undermine US interests, and will handicap global progress in many important areas.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
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As countries everywhere feel emboldened to encroach on their neighbours, the dismal prospect is of an aggressive, border-shifting 19th-century world, but armed with 21st-century weapons
In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can
That will be bad for America—and everyone else
econ.st
January 9, 2026 at 12:20 AM
As countries everywhere feel emboldened to encroach on their neighbours, the dismal prospect is of an aggressive, border-shifting 19th-century world, but armed with 21st-century weapons
What kind of university, or what kind of philosophy department, do we have if I’m not allowed to talk about Plato?...
Plato invented the concept of the university, founded the Academy. Of course philosophers should be allowed to talk about Plato.”
www.chronicle.com/article/texa...
Plato invented the concept of the university, founded the Academy. Of course philosophers should be allowed to talk about Plato.”
www.chronicle.com/article/texa...
Texas A&M Bans Plato Excerpt From a Philosophy Course
Martin Peterson wasn’t surprised when he had to excise two units on race and gender ideology from a philosophy course. What did shock him was that the ban included readings from Plato’s “Symposium.”
www.chronicle.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:28 AM
What kind of university, or what kind of philosophy department, do we have if I’m not allowed to talk about Plato?...
Plato invented the concept of the university, founded the Academy. Of course philosophers should be allowed to talk about Plato.”
www.chronicle.com/article/texa...
Plato invented the concept of the university, founded the Academy. Of course philosophers should be allowed to talk about Plato.”
www.chronicle.com/article/texa...
(xxii) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;
(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;
(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;....
(xxxi) UN University.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;
(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;....
(xxxi) UN University.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 3:24 AM
(xxii) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;
(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;
(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;....
(xxxi) UN University.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;
(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;....
(xxxi) UN University.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
"An institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato (updated) - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
"An institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
"Does the open science movement produce the benefits its supporters claim? The answer is a qualified yes, according to one of the most comprehensive, multifaceted studies of the complex and divisive issue."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
"Does the open science movement produce the benefits its supporters claim? The answer is a qualified yes, according to one of the most comprehensive, multifaceted studies of the complex and divisive issue."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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As we ring in the new year, it's time to recap all the excellent Atlanta-focused scholarship from 2025 that was published outside of our own (virtual) pages! Catch up on all that you missed throughout the year with our annual round up here: atlantastudies.org/2026/01/01/s...
January 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
As we ring in the new year, it's time to recap all the excellent Atlanta-focused scholarship from 2025 that was published outside of our own (virtual) pages! Catch up on all that you missed throughout the year with our annual round up here: atlantastudies.org/2026/01/01/s...
If the West is "blowing up process", where does that leave planning? Are there ways planners can reinvent design and policy analysis to support a renewal of belief in process in our countries? #rationality #DecisionScience #creativedestruction
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Opinion | The Idea That Once Held America Together Died in 2025
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
If the West is "blowing up process", where does that leave planning? Are there ways planners can reinvent design and policy analysis to support a renewal of belief in process in our countries? #rationality #DecisionScience #creativedestruction
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Hearty wishes for a sustainable and equitable 2026 from the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) on behalf of planning school associations and planning schools worldwide!
AAPS, ACSP, ACUPP, AESOP, ALEUP, ANPUR, ANZAPS, APERAU, APSA, ASPI, TUPOB
AAPS, ACSP, ACUPP, AESOP, ALEUP, ANPUR, ANZAPS, APERAU, APSA, ASPI, TUPOB
January 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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We asked our columnists to name the biggest lessons learned from Trump’s first year back in office. With recommendations for China, Europe, and global business leaders, here’s what they had to say:
6 Trump Lessons for Global Leaders in 2026
FP columnists on how the world could handle the new Washington.
foreignpolicy.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
We asked our columnists to name the biggest lessons learned from Trump’s first year back in office. With recommendations for China, Europe, and global business leaders, here’s what they had to say:
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Health becomes a bargaining chip rather than a protected humanitarian domain. Countries with fiscal capacity can participate. Fragile states cannot. People in crisis are no longer the first principle. Making money off the sick.
US commits $480M in health funding to Ivory Coast, the latest to sign 'America First' health deals
The United States and Ivory Coast have signed a health deal that would require the U.S. to commit $480 million to the West African nation’s health sector.
apnews.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Health becomes a bargaining chip rather than a protected humanitarian domain. Countries with fiscal capacity can participate. Fragile states cannot. People in crisis are no longer the first principle. Making money off the sick.
Reposted by Bruce Stiftel
Hearty wishes for a sustainable and equitable 2026 from the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) on behalf of planning school associations and planning schools worldwide!
AAPS, ACSP, ACUPP, AESOP, ALEUP, ANPUR, ANZAPS, APERAU, APSA, ASPI, TUPOB
AAPS, ACSP, ACUPP, AESOP, ALEUP, ANPUR, ANZAPS, APERAU, APSA, ASPI, TUPOB
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hearty wishes for a sustainable and equitable 2026 from the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) on behalf of planning school associations and planning schools worldwide!
AAPS, ACSP, ACUPP, AESOP, ALEUP, ANPUR, ANZAPS, APERAU, APSA, ASPI, TUPOB
AAPS, ACSP, ACUPP, AESOP, ALEUP, ANPUR, ANZAPS, APERAU, APSA, ASPI, TUPOB
Last walk to the curb. Last morning coffee with "the paper". 🥲
December 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Last walk to the curb. Last morning coffee with "the paper". 🥲
"Traffic has become our city’s shared burden, yet it affects people unequally....We’ve built wider highways instead of better lives, making movement a privilege when it should be a right. It doesn’t have to stay this way."
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
I drive 47 miles to school daily and witness how Atlanta fails its people
A high school student drives nearly 50 miles from Stockbridge to Norcross to attend the school of her choice and wishes metro Atlanta had better public transportation options.
www.ajc.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Traffic has become our city’s shared burden, yet it affects people unequally....We’ve built wider highways instead of better lives, making movement a privilege when it should be a right. It doesn’t have to stay this way."
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
"New York City is going to flood. Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#cityclimateaction #climateadaptation
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#cityclimateaction #climateadaptation
New York Is Going to Flood. Here’s What the City Can Do to Survive. (Gift Article)
Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"New York City is going to flood. Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#cityclimateaction #climateadaptation
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#cityclimateaction #climateadaptation
William Brangham recently spoke with Brown University’s Kim Cobb and meteorologist Matthew Cappucci about the proposed closing of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 a...
www.pbs.org
December 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
William Brangham recently spoke with Brown University’s Kim Cobb and meteorologist Matthew Cappucci about the proposed closing of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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After Sandy, Edgemere residents were told help was coming.
It didn’t.
Read the story: bit.ly/4s7luwb
#Resilience #EnvironmentalJustice
It didn’t.
Read the story: bit.ly/4s7luwb
#Resilience #EnvironmentalJustice
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
After Sandy, Edgemere residents were told help was coming.
It didn’t.
Read the story: bit.ly/4s7luwb
#Resilience #EnvironmentalJustice
It didn’t.
Read the story: bit.ly/4s7luwb
#Resilience #EnvironmentalJustice
"Since LLMs have become commonplace tools, academics have warned that they threaten to undermine our grasp on data by flooding the zone with fraudulent content."
Https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
Https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Since LLMs have become commonplace tools, academics have warned that they threaten to undermine our grasp on data by flooding the zone with fraudulent content."
Https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
Https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
“I would say one of the less well understood aspects of the damage Trump is doing is how long it will take to repair it after he’s gone, assuming that he is not succeeded by an equally anti-fact president....You can’t entirely recover from it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
How Trump’s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“I would say one of the less well understood aspects of the damage Trump is doing is how long it will take to repair it after he’s gone, assuming that he is not succeeded by an equally anti-fact president....You can’t entirely recover from it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
"As the world marched into a second global war, many of its belligerents did so citing the Monroe Doctrine."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Dated Strategy Is Putting Us on a Path to World War III
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"As the world marched into a second global war, many of its belligerents did so citing the Monroe Doctrine."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
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Denmark fumes over new US envoy to Greenland
Denmark fumes over new US envoy to Greenland – DW – 12/22/2025
US President Donald Trump's newly named envoy has said he hopes to help "make Greenland part of the US." Denmark, which controls the autonomous island, is "deeply angered" according to its foreign minister.
www.dw.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Denmark fumes over new US envoy to Greenland
"Even if you’re not a scientist, this should be on your radar. You need to understand what it means."
thebulletin.org/2025/12/thre...
thebulletin.org/2025/12/thre...
Threatening NCAR, Trump administration seeks to extinguish a beacon of climate science
The Trump administration’s world view is that the US doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say.
thebulletin.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Even if you’re not a scientist, this should be on your radar. You need to understand what it means."
thebulletin.org/2025/12/thre...
thebulletin.org/2025/12/thre...
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Rubio 🤮 is using lifesaving US health aid as leverage to force Zambia into mineral extraction deals. He is dismantling programs that saved millions, extending life expectancy by decades, and replacing partnership with coercion. This is exploitation, not diplomacy!
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Rubio 🤮 is using lifesaving US health aid as leverage to force Zambia into mineral extraction deals. He is dismantling programs that saved millions, extending life expectancy by decades, and replacing partnership with coercion. This is exploitation, not diplomacy!
GeorgiaTech M.S. in #GlobalDevelopment: launched in 2022; first graduates in 2024;
2026 fall applications priority deadline 15 January 2026.
2026 fall applications priority deadline 15 January 2026.
December 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
GeorgiaTech M.S. in #GlobalDevelopment: launched in 2022; first graduates in 2024;
2026 fall applications priority deadline 15 January 2026.
2026 fall applications priority deadline 15 January 2026.