In April 2019, the Trump Administration announced new tax rules that benefited venture capitalists and entrepreneurs developing properties in “struggling communities,” or Opportunity Zones.¹ These new rules, which embraced a “trickle-down” approach to community building that incentivizes the wealthy to invest and that overlooks the precariousness upon which those investments prey, raise important questions about the relationship between physical planning and social planning. Do we plan to simply make money? Do we plan to improve social conditions? Or can we do both? The five books discussed in this review use history—biography, transnational history, social justice, and urban politics—to better understand this question and its implications for the future of urban planning. Planning’s past reveals that poverty and justice are not mere facets of planning; they are its historical mission and enduring justification: to alleviate the ills of the congested city and improve the conditions of the impoverished.²

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物理世界中的社会规划

2019年4月，特朗普政府宣布了新的税收规则，使在“挣扎的社区”或“机会区”开发房地产的风险资本家和企业家受益。^1个这些新规则包含了一种“滴滴”式社区建设方法，这种方法激励了富人进行投资，却忽视了这些投资猎物所处的不稳定状态，从而引发了有关物理规划与社会规划之间关系的重要问题。我们打算简单地赚钱吗？我们计划改善社会条件吗？还是我们都可以做？本文中讨论的五本书使用历史（传记，跨国历史，社会正义和城市政治）来更好地理解这个问题及其对未来城市规划的影响。规划的过去表明，贫穷和正义不仅仅是规划的各个方面。这是其历史使命和持久的理由：减轻拥挤的城市的弊病，改善贫困人口的状况。²