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cholars and practitioners of urban planning need to rethink the field’s futures at this important historical juncture: some might call it a moment of truth when there is little left to hide. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many cracks, contradictions, and inequalities that have always existed but are now more visible. This also includes the global vaccine apartheid that is ongoing as I write these words. Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
- Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
- Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
- They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining.
- I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
- Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
- Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
- They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Review by Lorena Muñoz Relocations is an exciting, witty, complex, captivating read that it is as pleasurably disorienting as it is temporally grounded in subaltern spaces in the Los Angeles Megalopolis. As a geographer, Tongson had me at ‘relocations’ but ‘queer suburban imaginaries’ sealed the deal. Tongson offers geographers a beautifully interwoven historical analysis of the production of the Los Angeles suburbs that sings off the page. Literally, as I found myself singing to “don't stop believing” (page 32) and “back to life, back to reality” (page 74) while situating my own lived experiences in yearnings of the cloverleaf interstate. Hence, I too, like Chan’s JJ Chinois “dykeaspora” (page 54) grew up navigating my own sexuality by “perpetual reimaginings of global migration” (page 54) traveling through southern California’s highway system from ‘lower’ California (Mexico).
Review by Meredith Raimondo To this point, queer spatial imaginaries have largely been thought through an urban/rural binary. Karen Tongson’s Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries offers many elegant and playful challenges to this logic, but one of my favorites is this: “And yet these little boxes, these micro-parcels of contact and commerce, teem with lives cosmopolites won’t deign or dare to imagine” (page 154). This incitement captures so much about what’s important about Tongson’s intervention: its reparative engagement with the unlovely, unlovable suburb as a place not of normativity’s triumph but as a site of queer possibility (suburbs here are not metronormative geographies of shame, but spaces of complex affective relations that cannot be productively understood through simple binaries); its engagement with the soundscapes so central to suburbia’s queer aesthetics (here, the citation of Malvinia Reynolds’ “Little Boxes” invokes not just the televisual productions of suburban excess in show like Weeds, which borrowed the song from ’60s protest culture, but also its staple role in the anti-suburbanism of lesbian feminist women’s music); and its commitment to what might be thought, through its exploration of “lesser Los Angeles” (page 162), to lesser geographies (geographies that Tongson shows are not so distant from empire as urbanites used to a more vertical imperial architecture might think).
