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...Montreal If you would like to join the newly established listserv: planners-network-montreal@googlegroups.com please contact Lindsay Wiginton, lk.wiginton@gmail.com 2012 Partnerships for Regional Equity: A Planners Network Forum May 18-19, Ithaca NY This 2-day conference provides a forum to share strategies community-level…
...://www.plannersnetwork.org/1998/07/cross-over-dreams-gender-development-and-community-development/ Wanda Mills-Bocachica (1998) The Complexity of Gender: A Caribbean Perspective 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-col...
...ennifer.steffeljohnson(at)ucdenver(dot)edu Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/PlannersNetworkDenver/ Greater Delaware Valley Chapter Bob Brand & Bruce Caswell – bob.j.brand(at)gmail(dot)com & caswell(at)rowan(dot)edu Los Angeles Chapter (University of Southern California) Chris Tilly – tilly(at)luskin(dot)ucla(dot)edu New York City Chapter Google group – plannersNetworkNYC@googlegroups.com Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/PlannersNetworkNYC/ &...
...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…
...not a new trend. Its roots go back to the Industrial Revolution. By the mid-nineteenth century discontent with company food store pricing and quality led garment workers to form the first food cooperatives in England. A century later, America ‘s…
...cases where they are directly subsidized. All of this appears to leave low-income people less geographically isolated than they are in many other urban regions, but far less integrated than we would like them to be. Growth management strategies already…
...). 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…
...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…
...olivia’s discredited housing programs of the past, which gave stable middle-income workers better access to private mortgage credit, often to buy a second home. Under PVSS, the government provides direct loans on favorable terms to enable renters with limited means…
...gh depletion rate of natural gas wells in North America, we’re headed pedal-to-the-metal into The Last Energy Crunch. But you knew that, didn’t you? Then again, you also know that you might have to buy a new car in the…
...na(dot)kramer(at)mcgill(dot)ca Arielle Lawson: arielleglawson(at)gmail(dot)com Co-Chair Norma Rantisi : norma(dot)rantisi(at)gmail(dot)com Co-Chair Sean I. Robin: sean(dot)manhattan(at)gmail(dot)com Michaela Shirley Samuel Stein: samuelstein(at)gmail(dot)com Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie: keisha(dot)stlouis(dot)mcburnie(at)mail(dot)utoronto(dot)ca Carl Webb: CarlWebb(at)gmail(dot)com Anaid Yerena: yerena(at)uw(dot)edu Chester Hartman: chartman(at)pp...
...egy and proposed alternatives that would bring economic benefits to working-class communities and communities of color. Bridging the Gap between Local Knowledge and International Expertise Sheela Patel talked about planners who do not listen to the experiences of grassroots people…
...ived. Activists claim that the aggregate loss of subsidized housing for low-income Philadelphians through HOPE VI and the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s neglect of its scattered site units amounts to a crisis. One clear victory—claimed by activists, NTI and various politicians—is…
...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…
...020 Closing Date: 2/10/2020 Hiring Contact: Human Resources Department, 510-238-3112 Job Title: Planner III Department: Planning & Building Department Agency: City of Oakland Salary: $83,041.80 – $101,962.32 Annually Job Description: The City of Oakland is looking for dedicated people…
...iption URL: https://www.citrusheights.net/DocumentCenter/View/1742/Planning-Manager-PDF Ideal Candidate Ideal Candidate Possesses professional planning skills and abilities to evaluate current development projects through detailed review and analysis. Demonstrates the ability to understand, interpret, and apply city codes and ordinances, Federal and State rules, regulations,…
...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…
...k all that apply - Optional Do you want to be connected to a local chapter -- or start a local chapter?YesNoOptional Donation Amount (USD) * USD Refer to above table Send Message Join by Mail: Please fill in a…
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...y thirty percent of the protein consumed by the continent’s 200 million low-income families, most bean farmers are now trying to grow vegetables for export and devoting less of their land to beans for home or national consumption. Given this…
...d the familiar community ringing of bells at the nearby church and the ting-a-ling of the ice cream truck. The final installation occurred in April 2000. “Dislocating Housing” brought Ultra-red, Union de Vecinos and other artists together as part of…
...e chapter contacts page for links to these local listservs....
...onversation among members after it lost access to its previous listserv (pn-net). In the meantime, please check out our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PlannersNetwork/?fref=ts or LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/67676 Finally, many local chapters have set up their own listservs for local networking and…
...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…
...on the theme of “Revive”. Deadline January 24th! https://free-city.ca/call-for-submissions The theme of the fifth issue of Free City is revive. The magazine is returning from a two-year hiatus, and we are looking for written and visual work which represents a…
...noted for their crime, drugs, and persistent urban blight have suddenly become competitive candidates for investment. Why is this happening now? Until recently investors considered the profit potential of the inner city to be insignificant. The Development of Underdevelopment First…
...driving expensive cars and frequenting chic clubs and restaurants. Their income may come from trust funds or lucrative enterprises, instead of drugs, but the message is the same: only suckers become grinds at low-paying, dead-end jobs. From this standpoint, crime…
...traffic mitigation. While this strategy is sometimes expedient, its project-by-project tactics leave the systematic irrationality of urban development unscathed. Although these reforms may present models for redeveloping cities and regions, they actually have a regressive impact. They reinforce metropolitan fragmentation…
...a director. While the general manager appointed by the board to direct day-to-day operations of the company could be the focal point of consensus among the engineers of SEMAPA, in practice previous managers have proved unwilling to press controversial issues…
...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…
.... Some developments are being cleared entirely and replaced with new, mixed-income communities. This public housing “transformation” hinges on a narrowly constructed argument that high-rise, high-density sites are inherently bad. Embracing the rhetoric of new urbanists (NU), transformation plans around…
...Homeland Security. It took the Bush administration and Congress a year-and-a-half after 9/11 to enact legislation to provide states and cities with funding to improve airport security and other measures, but a year later, few cities had received the funds…
...r achieving a viable state of their own that they will submit to an Israeli-controlled mini-state. Creating Facts on the Ground Consider the following facts: • Since 1967, Israel has expropriated for settlements, highways, “bypass roads,” military installations, nature reserves…
...mes and advance equity goals. Her work centers communities of color and low-income communities that are typically underrepresented in the policies, programs, and services that seek to serve them. As a woman of color who has deep ties in Tacoma…
...cordia University Norma Rantisi (faculty) – norma(dot)rantisi(at)gmail(dot)com Dalhousie University Lisa Berglund (faculty) – lisakberglund(at)gmail(dot)com INRS – Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Nick Revington – Nick.Revington(at)ucs.inrs(dot)ca McGill University Anna Kramer – anna.kramer(at)mcgill(dot)ca Ryerson University Pamela Robinson (faculty) – pamela.robinson(at)ryerson(dot)ca Simon…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...aching and demonstrated ability to obtain research funding and publish high-quality peer-reviewed research. We invite applicants who have expertise in several of the following areas: urban ecology, landscape ecology/architecture, urban design, land use, physical and/or environmental planning, housing, economic development,…
...pm PST on *May 31, 2018*. *About the Journal* *Critical Planning*, the peer-reviewed graduate student-run journal of the UCLA Urban Planning Department, began in 1993 as a forum for the urban studies and planning communities to debate current issues, showcase…
...aching and demonstrated ability to obtain research funding and publish high-quality peer-reviewed research. We invite applicants who have expertise in health and planning or planning for healthy communities. In particular, we are interested in candidates whose work occurs at the…
...ory of the United States. This article was originally published by the MoJo Wire, Mother Jones magazine’s online sister: www.mojones.com....
...variety of arts, entertainment, recreational and educational amenities, make Oakland a thriving city that offers a great place to begin and grow your career. To be considered for this exciting and rewarding career opportunity, please submit your application at: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oaklandca/jobs/3514041/planner-ii…
...cks did. In perhaps a more revealing sign of the times, the share of middle-income census tracts declined from 58 percent to 41 percent between 1970 and 2000 while the share of poor people living in middle-income areas also declined…
...recent community planning efforts can be found at both www.envisionhilltop.com and www.ourlinden.com. What you’ll do The ideal candidate will possess a broad range of planning experience coupled with excellent public speaking, research and community engagement skills. Specific skills include: Community…
...tial and has such devastating consequences for both communities and the planet, has become indistinguishable from a war economy. (See “The Failure of War,” Resurgence 215 (2002) 6-9.) In Our Ecological Footprint (New Society Press, 1995), Mathis Wackernagel and William…
...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…
...n illegally-built settlements in the West Bank. They take exclusive Israeli-built and -protected roads to get to and from their homes. These roads are off-limits to Palestinians. This is one of the most developed examples of apartheid urbanization in the…
...emphasis added). The Philadelphia City Planning Commission is sponsoring a community-based planning effort called the “GreenPlan Philadelphia” in which community gardens are an important element. The Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) has been downright progressive in encouraging sustainable agriculture. In West…
...Plan: Some of the poorest people live in conveniently located slums on high-priced land. On patrician Fifth Avenue, Tiffany and Woolworth, cheek by jowl, offer jewels and gimcracks… on substantially identical sites…. In the very heart of the ‘commercial’ city…
...nly costs of auto dependency were to personal finances, supplementing lower-income household budgets–similar to a food stamp program–might solve the problem. The societal payments, however, go far beyond cash outlays for roads, cars and gas. Inefficient Mobility The Texas Transportation…
...tists are sometimes accused of playing a gentrifying role, displacing lower-income residents from urban neighborhoods. Both of these are misconceptions and partial truths, obscuring the unique, grounded and generally positive role that artists play in urban and ethnic neighborhoods. Artists’…
...ment corporations in rebuilding inner city neighborhoods or the work of low-income community groups protesting bank “redlining” and promoting community reinvestment. There is little news coverage of what Robert Putnam calls the “social capital” or what John Kretzmann and John…
...se kinds of effects. We are actively engaged in building a community and a counter-public. Planning Action has brought people together to fight, laugh and learn about problems and possibilities. We are helping create places for people to debate hot-button…
...00 homeless beds and 500 business establishments with 2,900 units of middle-income housing . In Melrose Commons, South Bronx activist Yolanda Garcia brought together a set of protest and local interest groups to fight a 1992 city proposal to redevelop…
...nd Development (HPD) is reviewing proposals to use half the site for market-price apartments. The 3.5-acre park with two baseball diamonds at 100th Street and First Avenue was a garbage-strewn lot and hangout for drug peddlers until the NY chapter…
...eventeen neighborhoods for priority public attention, including those lower-income ones hardest hit by the hurricane. The plan diplomatically includes a range of neighborhoods and neighborhood types, including much of the Ninth Ward as well as both commercial and industrial areas,…
...s are acrimonious in American cities. Intra-left debates between YIMBY (Yes-in-my-back-yard) activists and tenants’ rights groups have distracted housing advocates from the shared framework that can be found within abolitionist planning. Tenant activists deeply distrust real estate markets which continue…
...zing efforts, host public events, and gather for conferences. The Planners Network Steering Committee developed a new statement of principles in November, 2021. View the statement here. Check out our online magazine, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives. You can also follow…
...vernment to promote racial equity in government and the community we serve. Please visit the following link for a full job description and to apply online: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oaklandca/jobs/3514041/planner-ii?page=2&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs...
...ssing only a small piece of this puzzle, the Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch Farm-to-School project has embraced this challenge by exploring the possibilities of incorporating locally-grown food products within the Madison Metropolitan School District Foodservice. Despite the “win-win” nature of these…
...y. 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 Content and Primary Objective(s) 1. A…
...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....
...ing majority-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…
...edical, 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.…
...eative Center” in the US (Entrepreneur.com) and #1 on the “On Numbers Economic Index” as the fastest growing economy. EOE – City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American Disabilities Act...
...o the Attorney of the German Federal Supreme Court, which can be viewed on www.plannersnetwork.org. The arrest sparked protest from scholars and activists from around the world because it undermines academic freedom. Even more important, however, it has the effect…
...is is an opportunity for PN members to meet and learn from one another face-to-face. This is an archive of information about previous conferences since 1978. For information on our upcoming conference, click here. 2014: Planning at the Borders –…
...oration, design, leadership development and community activism, as well as complement our own theme-related programs. A Day at the Municipal Arts Society. Urban planning students were hosted by this organization’s Planning Center for a day of presentations and tours with…
...y range for Planner III is: $104,542.32 to $128,365.32 annually. To be considered for these exciting and rewarding career opportunities, please submit your application, résumé, and cover letter at: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oaklandca?keywords=Planner For more information contact: Deborah Gutman CPS HR Consulting (916)…
...ety of arts, entertainment, recreational and educational amenities, make Oakland a thriving city that offers a great place to begin and grow your career. To be considered for these exciting and rewarding career opportunities, please submit your application, résumé, and…
...mately a $50M operating budget and $20M capital budget, along with 305 full-time and 400 to 1,100 part-time/seasonal staff. Under the direction of the Director of Parks and Open Space, the Manager of Parks Planning, Design, and Construction will be…
...of practice related to urban and regional planning. Candidates who are all-but-dissertation (ABD) in planning or a related field and are progressing towards completion may also be considered. Candidates who hold an accredited professional planning degree are preferred. In addition,…
...nd international organizations that are currently working to end construction of the Wall and house demolitions: 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)...
...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…
...ganizations across the nation began to discuss how they might develop a low-income, grassroots response to transportation reauthorization. In January 1998 they formed a national coalition called the Transportation Equity Network (TEN). The Network developed the following issue priorities: Clarify…
...percent were renter-occupied. In the Lower Ninth Ward (98.3 percent African-American), owner-occupied units constituted 59 percent of total occupied units. In Milneburg, part of the Gentilly neighborhood, where 75.4 percent of residents were African-American, 71.2 percent of units were owner-occupied.…
...steered far from its spatial repercussions. Both the gay marriage and gays-in-the-military movements constitute a desire for stamps of approval. From interiority to parades and protests to, now, efforts to get to do just like everyone else, it can be…
...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…
...any of them related to its nuclear industry. To do so, it intends to use so-called “bunker-buster” bombs that would scatter vast clouds of intensely radioactive sand across much of Central Asia. Many of Iran’s nuclear facilities are in or…
...d economy.ple are not ‘voting with their gas pedals,’ not victims of a born-to-lose ‘love affair,’ not opting for exurban flight out of pure passion or even a clear preference. They are responding to a rigged market.”Kay divides Asphalt Nation…
...and ongoing mobilization to support the candidates. A combination of class- and ethnic-based organizing was used to bring a majority of voters firmly withinLa Raza Unida’s umbrella, leaving its opponents isolated. The central innovation demonstrated by the Crystal City La…
...ey are often confronted with urgent immediate expenses for the costs of day-to-day organizing—costs that escalate enormously when state repression has to be confronted. Popular organizations will simply not survive if they do not prioritize collective work, like holding regular…
...the National Party returned to power in 1990. Their attention turned to non-commercial areas that many New Zealanders consider birthrights — housing, education, and health. This market orientation was not reversed when the New Zealand First Party, with strong Maori…
...the city’s last landfill and planning to truck most solid waste through low-income waterfront neighborhoods already saturated with noxious facilities. At the same time he has cut recycling and waste reduction efforts. His energetic enforcement of welfare “reform”has cut off…
...home. Most Dubai workers, unlike Muhammad, live Spartan lives in isolated company-owned barracks, trailer camps and exurban satellites far from services. They often work fourteen-hour days without benefits. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a collection of seven feudal enclaves including…
...that “almost overnight, dozens of waste transfer stations appeared [in low-income communities] in Brooklyn and the Bronx.” Queens was also afflicted to a lesser extent. “You have to understand,” says Leslie Lowe of the New York City Environmen-tal Justice Alliance,…
...tive forms of housing tenure and more aggressive techniques to preserve low-income rental units. Homeownership as National Policy At the core of the current crisis are a number of institutions and mechanisms that emerged in response to the Great Depression.…
...info@progressivecity.net Or feel free to use the handy form below. [contact-form-7 id=”3771″ title=”Contact form 1″] Submission Guidelines Progressive City seeks articles that describe and analyze progressive physical, social, economic and environmental planning in urban and rural areas. Articles may be…
...ty officials. TCHC is engaging in an entrepreneurial plan to create a mixed-income community where a highly segregated one currently exists by demolishing and rebuilding much of the complex. Sound familiar? It has publicly discussed ideas like selling units to…
...of the old fashioned mega-yards that make neighborhoods into massive train-to-truck depots, new yards should be small enough that a community can absorb the truck impacts. Potential sites that could be developed or redeveloped include Phelps Dodge in Queens, the…
...be able to direct the trustee on how to vote their shares, while in closely-held companies, it is up to the company to decide. Employees have been given full voting rights in only about 40% of those cases in which…
...nities. This inquiry allowed us to develop both communityspecific and inter-community strategies and plans of action. We also used the process to host joint community events where members of all four communities were invited to hold dialogues with each other…
...improvement projects, rehab projects new home construction projects for low-income families in the neighborhood. The neighborhood of Emerson Park has suffered many of the same devastating trends as the rest of East St. Louis, but in many ways has been…
...thin the context of the social and economic problems and tragedies that low-income and under-served populations face. Lack of access to the digital world will continue as long as low-income communities are burdened by massive economic and social problems. Ultimately,…
...ters, which organize events and discussions around hot local issues. The pn-net discussion listserv, and other local and thematic email lists. For three decades, Planners Network has been a voice for progressive professionals and activists concerned with urban planning and…
...he employee works in a safe and secure work environment that may periodically have unpredicted requirements or demands. Apply Here: https://www.click2apply.net/7ebEXYSNGMdYcBqpf7Vag PI163980110...
...NKLA provides, in both English and Spanish, access to previously difficult-to-access data – such as code complaints, building permits, and property tax delinquency. The data is in both tabular and mapping formats, and serves as an ‘early warning system’ for…
...Starting in 2019, articles in the online magazine can be accessed at www.progressivecity.net...
...d. Excellent discipline-specific analytical abilities. Excellent discipline-specific communications skills. Excellent writing skills. Excellent graphic and map production skills. Consensus building skills. Awareness of the relationship of planning with the physical environment, real estate, economics, development, architecture, and governmental processes. Experience…