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Akira Drake Rodriguez

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Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing
2021 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · University of Georgia Press eBooks · 96
“What is Our City Doing for Us?”: Placing Collective Care into Atlanta’s Post‐Public Housing Movements
2022 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Antipode · 22
The ‘colorblindness’ of climate finance: how climate finance advances racial injustice in cities
2024 · Sahar Zavareh Hofmann, C. S. Ponder, et al. · City · 15
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Addressing Our Nation’s Toxic School Infrastructure in the Wake of COVID-19
2021 · Erika M. Kitzmiller, Akira Drake Rodriguez · Educational Researcher · 14
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics
2021 · Domingo Morel, Akira Drake Rodriguez, et al. · Urban Affairs Review · 10
“Let’s Get Ready to Crumble”: Black Municipal Leadership and Public Housing Transformation in the United States
2020 · Michael Leo Owens, Akira Drake Rodriguez, et al. · Urban Affairs Review · 9
Putting the ‘public’ back into public schools in the US
2023 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Dialogues in Human Geography · 7
Movements at the fiscal/monetary crossroads: Financing a Green New Deal for schools in Philadelphia
2023 · David I. Backer, Akira Drake Rodriguez · Journal of Urban Affairs · 5
More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
2015 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Housing Theory and Society · 5
“Broken Home”: (De)constructing the Moral Standards of Mobility for Atlanta’s Early Black Public Housing Families
2024 · Akira Drake Rodriguez, Prentiss A. Dantzler · City and Community · 3
Chapter 3. Parallel Pathways of Reform: Fair Public Schooling
2020 · Akira Drake Rodriguez, Rand Quinn · University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks · 3
Nihilism, Post-Truth and the Moral Future of Planning
2026 · Andrew Zitcer, Robert W. Lake, et al. · Planning Theory & Practice · 2
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Goats, or scapegoats for desertification: time to take another look at firewood demand in Peru.
2002 · Akira Drake Rodriguez, M. Uhlenbrock · 2
Reparative-advocacy planning to address racialized inequities in public school facilities
2025 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Journal of Race Ethnicity and the City · 1
“Pool: A Social History of Segregation”
2022 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Journal of American History · 1
Diverging Spaces for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing
2022 · LaToya E. Eaves, Deshonay Dozier, et al. · The AAG Review of Books · 1
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020
2022 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Political Science Quarterly · 1
Remaking Black Political Spaces for Black Liberation
2016 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Metropolitics · 1
Raising the (shop and kitchen) floor: The Chicago Teachers Union and the positive possibilities of social movement unionism through public schools
2026 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Dialogues in Urban Research
Book Review: Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis by Kimberley Johnson JohnsonKimberley, Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025), 370 pp.
2026 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Urban Affairs Review
Hope and struggle in the policed city: Black criminalization and resistance in Philadelphia , by Menika B. Dirkson
2025 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Journal of Urban Affairs
Book Review: J. T. Roane, Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Life and the Politics of Place Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Life and the Politics of Place, by RoaneJ. T.New York: NYU Press, 2022. 312 pp. $75 (hardcover). $24 (paperback). ISBN: 9781479847679.
2025 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · City and Community
Introduction to special issue: “Urban Movements within and against Racial Capitalism: Housing as a Site of Oppression and Resistance”
2025 · Kenton Card, Akira Drake Rodriguez, et al. · Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
“What Is Our City Doing for Us?”: Placing Collective Care into Atlanta’s Post-Public Housing Movements
2025 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · Planning, Environment, Cities
Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighbourhoods, Poverty, and Planning
2022 · Akira Drake Rodriguez · The AAG Review of Books
Works count: 51
Citation count: 198
H-index: 7
I10-index: 5
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