Jenn’s Community Planning
BOOK GROUP
In the Spring of 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 health pandemic, Jenn launched a private book group for planners.
It’s a no-pressure, VIRTUAL book group for like-minded lovers of planning for community, sustainability, social equity, etc. Geared toward professional planners but open to planners-at-heart, too!
This is mostly for fun, but also to stay fresh with our knowledge and perspective so we can continue to make a difference. As we get further and further away from our schooling as planners there are so many new points of view and research coming out about all things planning - sustainability, transportation, parking, placemaking, equity, design, and on and on and on.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Jenn hosts a discussion group about every six weeks on Zoom. There is also a private online group where this community of fabulous and thoughtful readers share, connect, and interact in between meetings.
INTERESTED IN JOINING?
Jenn approves all membership requests. You can request membership by emailing Jenn at jennifer[at]jmgoldson.com.
Year 6 Book List
November 2025 - September 2026
Abundance - by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World by Sara C. Bronin
Fault Lines (2024) - Movie
Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate-Changed World by Brian Stone Jr.
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress – And How to Bring it Back by Marc J. Dunkelman
Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye by Timothy Hyde
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy by Jerusalem Demsas