Selected Feature What You Always Knew About Globalization but Were Afraid to Tell: Five Basic Lessons by Kanishka Goonewardena Mexico’s Pioneer Experiences in Participatory Planning by Gustavo Romero Fernöndez Civil Society: A Challenge to Planners by Gerda R. Wekerle
Civil Society: A Challenge to Planners
by Gerda R. Wekerle Planning is generally identified with the state or private sector. ‘Citizens’ are often relegated to discussions of citizen participation, which is token and marginal to the real action. Or they are described as “special interests,” one […]
Mexico’s Pioneer Experiences in Participatory Planning
By Gustavo Romero Fernšndez In the early 1970s, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) began to get involved in urban planning. They were invited to get involved because they weren’t “urban planning professionals” but technicians linked to the social processes of popular urban […]
What You Always Knew About Globalization but Were Afraid to Tell: Five Basic Lessons
By Kanishka Goonewardena Globalization is a code word for something else. That is why David Harvey has the good habit of reminding his audiences that by globalization he means “the latest stage in the development of capitalism.” If he were […]