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...planning because they don’t allow for the integration of planning with day-to-day political action. They don’t take into account the internal tensions and conflicts that must arise along the way, inevitable consequences of the diverse class, racial, gender, age and…
...erspective https://www.plannersnetwork.org/1998/07/the-complexity-of-gender-a-caribbean-perspective/” Mel King (1999) Visions of Hope for People of Color: A Framework for Communication and Collective Action: http://www.plannersnetwork.org/1999/03/visions-of-hope-for-people-of-color-a-framework-for-communication-and-collective-action/ June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf (1999) Urban Planning in the African-American Community in the Shadows...
...a turn lane, with the leftover space dedicated to bike and pedestrian right-of-way. One especially creative approach: towns that purchase homes at the end of cul-de-sac streets when they go on sale, construct cut-through pathways to adjacent streets, parks or…
...ronx Borough President’s Office in 1997, show the unpermitted and unregistered waste-related facilities to be concentrated in the same areas as the permitted facilities. According to my analysis, 87 percent of the people living within Ú mile of the waste-related…
...a result of a collaboration between two groups, Union de Vecinos and Ultra-red. The HOPE VI Program at Pico Aliso In 1996, tenants and organizers at Pico Aliso, responding to eviction notices and the impending demolition of three contiguous developments,…
...ather than let the list die, I took over the project that was known as COMM-ORG. Since then, my goal has been to bring academics and practitioners together. I continue to present papers on-line and to moderate the list. Every…
...Ethical Culture Society 53 Prospect Park West Brooklyn, NY 11215 Tel.: 718-768-2972 2/3 train to Grand Army Plaza; Q train to Seventh Avenue (and Flatbush Ave.), or F train to Seventh Avenue (and Nineth St.) Please RSVP to: JackieLeavitt.memorial@gmail.com 2015…
...thwick. Source: http://www.rioonwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Island-of-homes-in-Beira-Rio-e1531319776658.jpg As of 2015, the City of Rio’s own data showed that 22,059 families (an estimated 77,000 individuals) across the city had been evicted from their homes since 2009, whether in the name of environmental protection, moving…
...Community Land Trust 2630 Muskoka Road 117 Box 10, Baysville ON P0B 1A0 705-706-3329 • Info@MuskokaCLT.org • MuskokaCLT.org 3. Establishes and maintains contact with key individuals in the community, partner organizations, and local businesses to advance MCLT’s public image and…
...al work at international conferences or in university settings. Jeff Halper is the coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (www.icahd.org). He can be reached at icahd(at)zahav(dot)net(dot)il....
...ts: Lower Manhattan as a global center, Lower Manhattan as a 24-hour/7 days-a-week community, and Lower Manhattan as a center of creativity. The Imaginative and the Gigantic All of the proposals in the competition are imaginative and interesting from a…
...is doing research and writing about urban enclaves and urban agriculture. For more information about the issue raised here, see: www.bimkom.org;www.icahd.org; www.stopthewall.org; www.btselem.org....
...ich the service needs of different communities are not uniform? How can one-size-fits-all service be efficient when it provides too much service to some neighborhoods but too little to others? Efficient services are those provided in appropriate measure to a…
...o an urban community. The New York City zoning regulations call for a required off-street parking ratio of.5, that is, 1 car for every 2 units of housing. However, subsidies for affordable housing development do not permit the construction of…
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...ns; Enact the Job Access and Reverse Commute program to address the welfare-to-work needs of local communities; and Ensure that local residents may have access to jobs on transportation construction projects built in or near their communities. Since then, TEN,…
...Indigenous Achievement (see https://umanitoba.ca/admin/president/media/PRE-00-018-StrategicPlan-WebPdf_FNL.pdf and https://umanitoba.ca/indigenous/). The University campus is located in Winnipeg, (the largest city in Manitoba) on the original lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation in…
...nd democracy in Toronto. Public Services for Sale?: A public forum in March 2003 organized by Planning Action and the Toronto Chapter of Council of Canadians that addressed the implications of the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in…
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...itions: PENGON, the Palestinian Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations Network (www.pengon.org) Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (www.icahd.org) The Rebuilding Alliance (www.rebuildingalliance.org)...
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...ing Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Experience working in the non-profit or not-for-profit sector preferred. Maintains an informed, anti-racist and anti-oppressive orientation in personal and professional affairs. Ability to build positive working relationships, work effectively in teams, and identify organizational opportunities…
...-white suburb, unanimously passed a resolution opposing all low-income, tax-credit, multi-family housing in the areas closest to New Orleans —effectively stopping the construction of a 200-unit apartment building for people over the age of 62 and any further assisted housing.…
...5). In the early years of this century, no restrictions were placed on land-uses in the area and industry was attracted by the railway. Since the Second World War, most zoning studies have concluded that, despite the presence of a…
...ery important for planners and others to consider at the outset of any farm-to-school initiative. On the surface, the Madison area food system appears to be quite strong. Featuring the largest farmers market in the nation, several community supported agriculture…
...ties or near the Dominican border. The result is staggering levels of rural-to-urban migration, leading to dangerous overcrowding of Port-au-Prince. Passed by the U.S. Congress in 2006, programs such as the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act (HOPE) have…
...Charter for the Right to the City. More information is available at www.hic-al.org (in Spanish) and www.hic-net.org (in English and French). Figure 3: Key Strategic Principles of the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City Vision Strategic Focus…
...Meredith atmeredith@aupnyc.org . For more information about the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, please visit www.bcue.org....
...e ranks of staff, leaders and/or executive board members of labor/community-based organizations, including community development corporations, service delivery groups, faith-based groups, union locals, the County Federation of Labor and worker centers. The program has multiple objectives: 1) advancing networking among…
...). Visit the NorCal HERC website at https://www.hercjobs.org/regions/higher-ed-careers-northern-california/ to search for open positions within a commutable distance of our institution. The University of California offers a competitive benefits package and a number of programs to support employee work/life balance. For…
...occasion he urged me to visit John Gaus, a famous progressive and New Deal-era administrator who had retired nearby. On other occasions I would encounter Jones and Finch at lunch in the university’s faculty club, discussing the relative merits of…
...burgeoning cities could discern how world events had an effect on their day-to-day lives, it is pure myopia for local elected officials of twenty-first century America to deny how inextricably the local is tied to the global. The Local Costs…
...re Associates, the Bronx-based service cooperative (owned and controlled by 200-plus low income women), had been launched in several cities. And some revolving loan funds serving coops had been established. Employee-owned firms had entered virtually all sectors, and were faring…
...e and condo towers, no mega shopping centers in a sea of parking, no bumper-to-bumper polluting traffic. There is also no belt of ramshackle slums, the typical welcome mat of cities in the South, but I still felt the urge…
...tment Brochure: https://executivesearch.cpshr.us/flyer?file=APPROVEDCityofAuroraMPPDC.pdf City of Aurora website: https://www.auroragov.org...
...range equity planning for governmental municipalities, corporations, or non-profit organizations. Demonstrated success at implementing programs that contributed to equitable outcomes. Experience advocating for and implementing institutional change within a structured environment. Experience analyzing data to inform program and project planning.…
...this is to support the courageous work of ICAHD (for more information go towww.icahdusa.org). The Green Zone: Gated Community and Imperial Bunker As if following the model of the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory, the U.S. set up its…
...rlotte Mathivet (eds.), 2010, Cities for All: Proposals and Experiences towards the Right to the City, also available at http://www.hic-net.org/content/Cities%20fol%20All-ENG.pdf....
...hat residents request and upgrading this essentially lower middle-class, up-and-coming community, which has proved its ability to coexist peacefully with major events ranging from the Formula 1 to Rock in Rio? Why not be really creative and develop a model…
...) and The Center for the Living City can be found at http://justmetropolis.org 2008: Planning in Challenging Climates The 2008 Planners Network Conference: Planning in Challenging Climates was July 17-20 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. See the Call for Participation (783 KB)…
...experiment in participatory democracy. People of all walks of life met face-to-face, motivated by the desire to express their thoughts and by the opportunity to affect in profound and constructive ways the future of the region. Participants helped articulate diverse…
...the hundreds in open marketplaces, in cars, in their homes. Brutal building-by-building urban warfare, with heritage sites thousands of years old destroyed in the crossfire. Thick oily smoke billowing through the city in a vain attempt to misdirect missiles. It…
...to these websites: https://www.dal.ca/faculty/architecture-planning/school-of-planning.html https://www.dal.ca/ https://www.halifax.ca/ Candidates should provide statements of their teaching and research interests, examples of peer reviewed published work, a curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information of three references (who may be contacted later with…
...community’s isolation allowed its residents to live autonomously under male-centered leadership. Piñones residents actively resisted slavery and sharecropping during the 19th century, and developers and the state apparatus during the 20th century. Male domination and leadership remains, for the most…
...nd social justice? What would it look like if development honored the multi-layered identities of communities, and involved them in determining their own fate? And what if in doing this they were able to incorporate creative methodologies from the arts?…
...traced the social housing concept back to the ayllu, the traditional socio-political organization in Bolivia’s rural indigenous communities, where every family’s right to the land is protected. “We don’t believe in making a market commodity out of Pachamama (Mother Earth),”…
...ng & Governments Services. For a complete list of duties, see http://negrc.org/local- services.php under “News.” Starting Salary: $44,000 – $50,000/year, with a competitive benefits package. Submit a resume, cover letter, list of three references, and (optional) portfolio to: NEGRC, Attn:…
...h. (See the NTAC web site at and the site called “Remembering Our Dead” at www.gender.org/remember.) Throughout history and in many cultures transgendered people have played visible and useful social roles. In the aftermath of the Stonewall rebellion, which jump-started…
...re than eighty public school teachers attended a day long training event co-sponsored by the Board of Education and city greening groups. Coalitions are evolving to flex some political muscle on the community gardening crisis. Included are borough specific groups…
...n transportation. Of that, only $3.3 billion will be dedicated to pollution-reducing transportation modes–mostly transit. $200 million will go to planning, $500 million will go to recreational trails and the rest will go to roadway spending. The money to pay…
...anish-speaking television stations covered the event and one station sponsored it. Semi-professional teams played several exhibition games on the soccer fields, and the league played tournament games. Several politicians made presentations and awarded trophies to the winners. A grant was…
...people are not to be tolerated. Other problems also intrude. The government-as-business movement (that really goes back to the Progressives and the city manager idea) contains a powerful criticism of faceless, unresponsive bureaucrats and invites public distrust of all governmental…
...gely been reduced to reacting to, rather than initiating, projects. Quality-of-life participation and efforts at neighborhood protection frequently rely on the methods of advocacy that were developed initially to empower the poor. This citizen motivation is evidenced in positions like…
...c and included people from the disabled to the athletes who competed in a 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament. Entertainment ranged from a professional band to representatives of the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts to a neighborhood drill team. Food,…
...ore than 30 percent. Even when elected, women are likely to speak for a non-gendered community and deal with “family needs” rather than women’s issues. Official jargon, inconvenient locations—especially in large amalgamated municipalities—and meeting times tend to discourage women from…
...the $15 an hour minimum wage. NEIGHBOURHOOD ORGANIZING The most dynamic day-to-day organizing though has been to turn the campaign into a municipal issue. To do this, it was necessary to build the base of the movement. This was done…
...bama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Officials scrambled to develop long- and short-term recovery efforts. Louisiana organized around a unique difficulty. In many cases, insurance companies deemed the damage to homes to be the result of flood rather than wind damage.…
...tianguis is an open-air marketplace where producers and consumers meet face-to-face. At the Círculo’s weekly tianguis in Guadalajara, producers sell their products directly to consumers. This weekly ritual has become an important part of some 100 people’s lives, a place…
...globe, from occupying powers to a state of war, and from government-sponsored, top-down development models to corporate interests that promote private gain over public good. When viewed through the lens of resource rights, globalization is shrinking the global commons through…
...(the rest live in designated townships). These Bedouin villagers have self-organized to form the Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages, a vehicle for joining together to fight for recognition by the state and for the provision of equal services. Israel’s destructive…
...y parks. City Council Speaker Peter Vallone has spoken out against the seat-of-the-pants inconsistency of Parks fees, the capture of the money by private non-profits instead of the city treasury, and the department’s refusal to comply with requests for information…
...ted States as a response to the growing digital divide in our society (see www.ctcnet.org). Community Technology Access Centers (CTCs) are embarking on an ambitious plan to bring information technology to traditionally under-served and low-income communities for the purpose of…
...d them more often, or with greater loss of civilian life. In Hiroshima hundreds of thousands died, in Korea and Vietnam millions died as a result of our use of such weapons. Our economic sanctions are also weapons of mass…
...erts. During that third visit it became clear that we needed to do more one-on-one outreach. Many people were suspicious of the process. Bad past experiences with government programs, university expansion, and outside consultants made people fearful and reluctant to…
...ign or related field; experience may be substituted for education on a year-by-year basis. Experience guiding government staff, advocacy leaders and business communities to adopt best practices for elevating active transportation and connected bike networks (knowing the differences between each…
...b postings are only available to members, and can be found in the monthly E-Newsletter. How can I change my address? Email the change to info(at)plannersnetwork(dot)org or send it to the regular mailing address listed on the Contact page. How…
...ally interested in pieces that are grounded in a particular location. Submission Deadline February 1, 2023 submissions@harvardurbanreview.org https://www.instagram.com/harvardurbanreview/...
...pand opportunity and improve quality of life. Learn more about our work at www.centralina.org. The Centralina Team: Centralina strives to provide an inclusive, creative and supportive work environment for its employees. Centralina’s staff of nearly 50 individuals serve as subject-matter…
...lex Schafran, Amy Siciliano. Planners Network is an organization of urban planners, activists and academics. www.plannersnetwork.org For post-Katrina organizing, go to: http://katrina.mayfirst.org...
...pand opportunity and improve quality of life. Learn more about our work at www.centralina.org. The Centralina Team: Centralina strives to provide an inclusive, creative and supportive work environment for its employees. Centralina’s staff of nearly 50 individuals serve as subject-matter…
...rly 30,000 units of affordable housing. For more on our work, please visit www.sfccho.org. About the Position: We are seeking a Policy Director! We are a small, fast–moving team of three staff for the CCHO coalition. You will support the…
...agazine Since 1975, PN has been publishing a newsletter for its members. In 2002, the bi-monthly newsletter grew into a 48-page quarterly magazine. Progressive Planning: The Magazine of Planners Network sought to be a means for networking among members, a…
...viding free and discounted design services to business owners and community-based organizations in distressed urban corridors, the Neighborhood Design Center has expanded our ability to provide a broader range of planning services to Columbus neighborhoods. Examples of recent community planning…
...flooded with federal initiatives such as Model Cities, along with new state- and locally-funded parks, schools and colleges. Even the local planning department pitched in, preparing the city’s first modern general plan with several dozen specialized elements, most focused on…
...The RPA is a non-profit civic organization working on issues facing the NY-NJ-Connecticut metropolitan area. The Association’s work is funded by individual members, private foundations and corporations. Working in an advisory and research capacity the RPA has created and promoted…
...efined abandonment as an uneven and reversible process (as opposed to a yes-or-no binary state) that occurs along three axes—functional, physical and financial. One surprising and important outcome of understanding abandonment as a spectrum of neglect was that, having identified…
...academic-job-board/job-details?jobID=104041…-assistant-professor-department-of-urban-and-regional-planning-104041 Page 1 of 2 Job Details: College of Fine + Applied Arts: Assistant Professor – Department of Urban and Regional Planning (104041) 10/2/18, 10(08 AM Apply for position A Ph.D. in planning or related fields is required. ABD candidates…
...researchers with backgrounds in the fields of sociology, architecture, geography, childhood studies, communication science, urban planning, and social anthropology. The centre is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and hosted by the Technische Universität Berlin[https://www.tu-berlin.de/menue/home/parameter/en/]; partner institutions include the…
...oads and intersections.” Both of these reports recommend sidewalks and side-of-the-road bicycle lanes, with mention of bike paths for children. There are important differences, however, in the safety profile and user population of side-of-the road bicycle lanes or striped lanes…
...y Bay Area town of Alameda, teens from Encinal High founded HOME, a student-run organization created to give kids something to do after school. With eight other teenagers, sixteen-year-old skater Daniel Osborne created HOME’s Skateboard Task Force. They collected 1,600…
...eratives Provide support to OakCLT residents in the development of a scattered-site urban farm project on multiple vacant parcels, as necessary Update and maintain OakCLT’s property and household records in Homekeeper (Salesforce-based CRM) Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in city/urban planning,…
...coordinate, and deliver trainings related to ownership readiness with lease-to-own single-family homebuyers, residents converting to condominium ownership, and limited-equity housing cooperatives; coordinate with translators and interpreters as necessary Assess resident capacity building needs and develop targeted trainings as necessary Assist…
...liver technical assistance (TA) to affordable housing developers, community-based organizations and public agencies throughout the Bay Area, largely in connection to funding applications for the State’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program. In this capacity, the Program Officer will…
...dental, and vision; vacation and sick days; retirement account and company-sponsored contributions; and time and resources for professional development. For more information about us: www.raimiassociates.com Raimi + Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to hiring a diversified workforce. Selection…
...ituted for one year of the professional planning experience. Final Filing Date: Friday, July 12, 2019, 5:00pm For a full job description and on-line application, please go to www.stocktongov.com/jobs EOE...
...articipation from the community, which reaffirms the boundaries of these re-conquered territories and broadens the territory of protest. No longer limited to the criminals’ residence, it includes parks or squares as new spaces to discuss and redefine the past. Until…
...work. Both networks sponsored regular meetings at which urban activists shared organizing experiences and policy ideas and helped build on successes. After a few years CASLP folded its tent, while the Planners Network continues primarily as a newsletter linking urban…
...ie emergent social movement organizations that advance novel approaches to organizing and creative forms of problem-solving at the local level. There is also the issue of compensation for participation, because there are stark inequities between the salaries of government officials…
...ents drive their automobiles over 27 million miles, the equivalent of fifty-six round-trips to the moon! The Health Connection All this driving has serious side effects, in Portland as in other parts of the US. Transportation is by far the…
...laid off. In response to the Depression, several small technical employee organizations loosely organized as the United Committee of Architects, Engineers, and Chemists. On the morning of August 12, 1933, the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of…
...0km in the case of one vintner). 20% of sellers at NYC markets are from out-of-state. With markets typically open one day per week, the number of farm market days a given producer can attend is limited. Newer markets provide…
...ly ties that characterize most Latino cultures serve as the basis of family-centered strategies for physical activity? How may fears of race crime and harassment limit physical activity in “wilderness settings” for black Americans? How might park design support the…
...Los Angeles building in Little Tokyo. It was a unique opportunity for peer-to-peer exchange and, if the group decided in favor, to avoid what some call “the local trap.” The local trap is a metaphor for organizing around what may…
...y War began. That is the official date. But, in reality, it started two-and-a-half years earlier, on the day Israel decided to act against the diversion of the Jordan.” Whether or not water was the primary cause of the Six-Day…
.... In the over $1,000,000 contributor category are Goldman Sachs & Co., JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc, Time Warner, Verizon Communications. In the over $100,000 category are well-known major players in New York real estate: The Rudin…
...immediate loss of life is incredible. But I think it will have a major long-term impact on life here, morally, economically, politically, on urban life, and all for the worse.The retribution/vengeance sentiment is overwhelming, and so far few are asking…
...ct the Editorial Office, Hunter College Department of Urban Planning, 695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021, tangotti(at)hunter(dot)cuny(dot)edu, fax 212-772-5593. Bylaws Download the Bylaws (as revised October 2009) (90 KB)....