When a joke represents so much more: the end of PLANET and the rise of planners 2040

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Mai Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning Department at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on creating resilient and equitable cities. She has published on topics such as housing policy, immigration policy, disaster recovery, and urban growth phenomena. She also teaches about practices and policies that create transformative community change.

Jennifer Evans-Cowley is Vice Provost for Capital Planning and Regional Campuses and Professor of City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University. Evans-Cowley speaks and writes about the importance of technology in advancing city planning.

Leigh Graham, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the contentious politics of urban redevelopment, especially after disasters and in periods of crisis.

Laura Solitare, PhD, is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy in the Barbara Jordan? Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University. Her research focuses on urban environmental planning, including land-use planning brownfields redevelopment, noise pollution, and environmental justice.

J. Rosie Tighe is an assistant professor in the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on housing, urban development, and inequality.

Shannon Van Zandt is Professor and Interim Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on low-income housing, disaster recovery, and social vulnerability to disasters.

Notes

1. Planners 2040 can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/planners2040/

2. The number of subscribers is based on a list of emails of listserv members sent to PLANET from G. William Page on 25 August 2015. On this list were 1381 email addresses that included 120 duplicates. We estimated that the 1261 unique email addresses represent the number of members.

3. We should note that the sender of the joke apologized a day later for sending out the joke and took full responsibility for offending readers, but this did not stop the heated exchanges that ensued for over a week.

4. While in general this was the case, there were also exceptions. There were junior scholars who also agreed with full and retired professors and vice versa.

5. We should note that this member subsequently apologized for this remark after the continued back and forth on PLANET revealed how divisive and hurtful this statement was to other members.

6. Authors’ analysis.

7. The reasons for the resistance to joining Facebook include distrust of Facebook’s for-profit nature and concerns about privacy. Others have also indicated that they are not familiar with the platform, do not want to learn a new social media tool and appreciate the simple email format of a listserv.