Samina Raja
@saminaraja.bsky.social
Accidental professor. Perpetual student. Founder Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, University at Buffalo (UB Food Lab). Kaeshir (Kashmiri). https://foodsystemsplanning.ap.buffalo.edu/
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Samina Raja
@saminaraja.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States
This book examines the opportunities and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture in the United States with a focus on ethics and equity in city building. This is an open access book. This is an op...
link.springer.com
Fifty+ authors wrote a book arguing for a more equitable and just municipal policy landscape for urban agriculture in US cities (in honor of Jerry Kaufman). The concluding chapter argues for "planning as an act of public nurturance". The book is open access. Enjoy! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
NY state to provide full SNAP benefits in November, according to @governor.ny.gov
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
NY state to provide full SNAP benefits in November, according to @governor.ny.gov
How might we inagine planning as public nurturance? This is the question that my colleagues and I explore in a new(ish) book. If you are interested, join a conversation at 12:20 PM EST. In person (Cornell University) and zoom. Join in!
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
How might we inagine planning as public nurturance? This is the question that my colleagues and I explore in a new(ish) book. If you are interested, join a conversation at 12:20 PM EST. In person (Cornell University) and zoom. Join in!
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
Are you interested in a conversation about urban planning and urban agriculture? Join me on Oct 31 in Ithaca, NY.
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
Samina Raja: Planning [for Urban Agriculture] as Public Nurturance | Cornell AAP
Samina Raja presents a care-centered approach from her book Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture that empowers marginalized communities to codesign equitable food and planning systems.
aap.cornell.edu
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Are you interested in a conversation about urban planning and urban agriculture? Join me on Oct 31 in Ithaca, NY.
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
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POCIG is preparing our annual collection of CVs from people of color seeking teaching and faculty positions in planning. The deadline for 2025-2026 is Friday, September 12, 2025. More information on CV formatting and submission can be found on ACSP's website here: www.acsp.org/news/679862/...
Now Accepting Submissions for the POCIG 2025 Resume-CV Book - Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Inc.
The deadline for submissions for 2025-2026 is Friday, September 12, 2025. Please distribute this call widely.
www.acsp.org
August 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
POCIG is preparing our annual collection of CVs from people of color seeking teaching and faculty positions in planning. The deadline for 2025-2026 is Friday, September 12, 2025. More information on CV formatting and submission can be found on ACSP's website here: www.acsp.org/news/679862/...
Community forum on food with Mayoral candidates is underway.
[Where is candidate Scanlon?]
[Where is candidate Scanlon?]
June 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Community forum on food with Mayoral candidates is underway.
[Where is candidate Scanlon?]
[Where is candidate Scanlon?]
Tonight in Buffalo!
A community forum with prospective mayoral candidates to hear how they are thinking about the city's food system.
Join, learn, and caste an informed vote.
A community forum with prospective mayoral candidates to hear how they are thinking about the city's food system.
Join, learn, and caste an informed vote.
June 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Tonight in Buffalo!
A community forum with prospective mayoral candidates to hear how they are thinking about the city's food system.
Join, learn, and caste an informed vote.
A community forum with prospective mayoral candidates to hear how they are thinking about the city's food system.
Join, learn, and caste an informed vote.
Reposted by Samina Raja
ICYMI.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.
Open access.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.
Open access.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities
Protracted political conflicts disrupt people's lives, including their ability to feed themselves. Urban planning, operating within the ambit of the state, impacts food systems in conflict cities. ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:49 AM
ICYMI.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.
Open access.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.
Open access.
Colleagues in my network: SciENcv is not opening for me. Is anyone else having this problem?
March 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Colleagues in my network: SciENcv is not opening for me. Is anyone else having this problem?
ICYMI. The Growing Food Connections Project hosts a free, searchable database of local government policies and plans (in the US) focused on community food systems. Enjoy!
growingfoodconnections.org/tools-resour...
growingfoodconnections.org/tools-resour...
Local Government Food Policy Database | Growing Food Connections
growingfoodconnections.org
December 12, 2024 at 10:54 PM
ICYMI. The Growing Food Connections Project hosts a free, searchable database of local government policies and plans (in the US) focused on community food systems. Enjoy!
growingfoodconnections.org/tools-resour...
growingfoodconnections.org/tools-resour...
I did not pay anyone at Planners Magazine to write this: Fungus is the Future.
December 10, 2024 at 10:49 PM
I did not pay anyone at Planners Magazine to write this: Fungus is the Future.
ICYMI.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.
Open access.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.
Open access.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities
Protracted political conflicts disrupt people's lives, including their ability to feed themselves. Urban planning, operating within the ambit of the state, impacts food systems in conflict cities. ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:49 AM
ICYMI.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.
Open access.
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.
Open access.
In city planning, context ought to be foreground, not background.
Here are six essays in @planningtheory.bsky.social wrestling with context. My essay deals with the city fo Srinagar in Kashmir. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Open access.
Here are six essays in @planningtheory.bsky.social wrestling with context. My essay deals with the city fo Srinagar in Kashmir. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Open access.
Wrestling with Context
Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:04 PM
In city planning, context ought to be foreground, not background.
Here are six essays in @planningtheory.bsky.social wrestling with context. My essay deals with the city fo Srinagar in Kashmir. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Open access.
Here are six essays in @planningtheory.bsky.social wrestling with context. My essay deals with the city fo Srinagar in Kashmir. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Open access.
Fifty+ authors wrote a book arguing for a more equitable and just municipal policy landscape for urban agriculture in US cities (in honor of Jerry Kaufman). The concluding chapter argues for "planning as an act of public nurturance". The book is open access. Enjoy! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States
This book examines the opportunities and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture in the United States with a focus on ethics and equity in city building. This is an open access book. This is an op...
link.springer.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Fifty+ authors wrote a book arguing for a more equitable and just municipal policy landscape for urban agriculture in US cities (in honor of Jerry Kaufman). The concluding chapter argues for "planning as an act of public nurturance". The book is open access. Enjoy! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reposted by Samina Raja
UB's Food Lab partners with prominent Kashmiri poet Zareef Ahmad Zareef to celebrate an important Indigenous green called haak – University of Buffalo | #Indigenous #Food | MORE at EcoSearch
July 26, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Samina Raja
We've published a new fast track article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Alissa Ujie Diamond on 'Entangled Genealogies: Mulberries, Production of Racial Categories, and Land Development in Central Virginia'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantpjournal
October 30, 2024 at 12:46 PM
We've published a new fast track article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Alissa Ujie Diamond on 'Entangled Genealogies: Mulberries, Production of Racial Categories, and Land Development in Central Virginia'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantpjournal