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...AC Transit bus riders had fallen by 30 percent from 1986 to 2005, even as service levels for riders of BART and Caltrans rail service had more than doubled (see Figure 1). As in L.A., bus and rail ridership is…
...ently as the mid-1980s, DOS was thought by many observers to be one of the best-run city agencies. But the department’s mission had gradually evolved over the years as the public’s increasing environmental awareness resulted in state, federal and local…
...found detailing a front porch rail to be built by a property owner’s eleven-year-old son as they are to be found studying the implications of community form on public health. Community design projects may involve building straw bale homes with…
...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…
...careful. Second, true to the old Alinsky mantra, people participate in COMM-ORG out of self-interest or out of arm-twisting. I am still thrilled each time I post a new paper on COMM-ORG. But in contrast to the days of Wendy…
...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…
...al stewardship is essential to maintain a healthy environment and a quality-of-life for the earth. These principles offer some guidance in the practice of landscape architecture. While it could be argued that their vagueness opens them to multiple, perhaps conflicting…
...hat have been left out — child care for single mothers, translation for non-English-speaking folks, meeting times that accommodate work schedules, etc.? Overall, how successful were we at nurturing well-informed, genuinely democratic politics and discourse, dialogue about options and the…
...Excellent written communication skills, including demonstrated ability in writing, strong editing skills, and a collaborative approach to writing/editing ? Strong interpersonal skills, a love of relationship building, and an excitement to grow into the public face of CCHO Compensation: This…
...long with several rounds of smaller layoffs have, in effect, been ruled out-of-order. Never call for any progressive taxes and never mention proposed reforms of Proposition 13, which, since its adoption in 1979, has cost state and local government dearly.…
...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…
...Starting in 2019, articles in the online magazine can be accessed at www.progressivecity.net...
...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…
...oups will do across different situations. APPLICATIONS MAY BE FILED ONLINE AT: http://www.dublinohiousa.gov 6555 Shier Rings Rd. Dublin, OH 43016 614-410-4459 shathaway@dublin.oh.us Position #00636 DIRECTOR OF PLANNING KR...
...class since the inception of the institution. New York City ’s liberal four-to-one match of campaign finances also allowed those less traditionally endowed to run for office. These two factors combined to give candidates running on advocacy platforms opportunities to…
...). 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…
...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…
...this means not basing our work on the superficial pasting together of short-lived, issue-specific coalitions, but rather focusing our work on transforming relations between groups. Successful transformative community planning also means planners who are willing to acknowledge that into each…
...danger of a vulgarisation and domestication of Lefebvre’s phrase by status-quo-conform institutions and forces is a real one. In “What Kind of Right Is the Right to the City?” CUNY Urban Studies professor Kafui Attoh argues convincingly that “rights within…
...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…
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...ical Society of America, we will hear from legal experts and implementers who will discuss the role of policy, both federal and local, in effective ecosystem management. Confirmed panelists: Erika Harris- Senior Planner, Puget Sound Regional Council Royal C. Gardner,…
...tly support organizing. I find it doubtful we could mount a vigorous letter-writing campaign or petition drive. It would also be difficult to coordinate the writing of reports, position papers, or op-ed pieces, much less to collect the writing PNers…
...ives to collect dust for bookworms of the library system to rediscover. My service-learning opportunity in the Rogue Valley included a stint in Ashland, considered a near utopia by many individuals and families. Ashland is on the cutting edge on…
...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…
...use recommendation: For its part, Detroit must address the fact that a 138-square-mile city that once accommodated 1.85 million people is way too large for the 912,000 who remain. The fire, police and sanitation departments couldn’t efficiently service the yawning…
...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…
...f the country’s most popular, high-profile “green” and culturally dynamic cities, Austin was selected as the #1 Best Places to Live (US News and World Report 4/2017), # 5 Top 25 Future-Ready US Cities (Convention Management Association Convene Magazine, 2/2016),…
...y, to express their deepest understandings and realize themselves as individuals and groups. Third, it exemplifies what it means to be a conscious partner in the evolution towards the human and ecological ideal. At its best, the day-to-day practice of…
...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…
...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,…
...ir constituents and the central organs of the state. In the last decade-and-a-half, several factors have influenced the development of participatory democracy in Cuba: the economic crisis that resulted from the collapse of the Soviet bloc; the reforms of the…
...in a book length manuscript. I decided to undergird the project with house-to-house surveys, so I had a deeper understanding of how ordinary Cubanos viewed neighborhood life, education, health care, and the social supports system, as well as how they…
...ived of by the City as a place in which to create a new middle-income, home-ownership-based community. Plans along these lines were developed by the Departments of City Planning and Housing Preservation and Development in the late 1980’s. In August…
...es. Between 1993 and 2002, (the CRA was most vigorously enforced in the mid-to-late 1990s) loans to blacks increased by 79 percent, to Hispanics by 185 percent and to whites by 30 percent. At the same time, loans to low-…
...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…
...y resources into the community and enabling students to link with community- and labor-based practitioners. The project on the homecare workers campaign in 2000-2001 received the 2002 APA Local and State Chapter Award. After that project, Leavitt continued to work…
...e Planning Commission in the early stages of development of the city’s poly-nucleated long-range plan. In New York City, he focused on the issue of the disposition of city-owned property and was successful in achieving the adoption of a statement…
...not be valued as highly. If I look at these discussions through a sociology-of-work lens, I ask whether the differential values attached to specific practice arenas or specialties might not serve to preserve the roles of established planning educators with…
...st in the city, is a Middle Eastern theme park and luxury casbah. Its extra-strength modern and post-modern designs include eclectic elements resembling parts of pyramids, giant temple pillars and a classical Greek façade. One section of the mall is…
...1979. Historically, the juntas have played multiple roles, including: Self-help. Through the juntas, ex-miners and campesinos have pooled their resources (including miners’ pension funds) and technical skills to buy land, build schools and parks and install basic utility services. This…
...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…
...change contains very strong potential for the development of modern transit- and pedestrian-based cities. In one major metropolis, policymakers are advancing principles that western environmentalists and transit advocates have succeeded in advancing only slightly — financing a “transit first” policy…
...ently working on her first book manuscript titled Race, Space, and the Wake-Work of our Undercommons —an ethnographic and photographic exploration of socio-spatial resistance and everyday revolution in Brown and Black spaces, towards what she hopes to suggest as a…
...recycling facility and a deployment center that houses our community clean-up service teams. This position will support the operation of existing facilities through major contract procurement and management responsibilities, managing infrastructure improvement projects, as well as help plan future capital…
...d-historical victory of Western liberal capitalism over all rival political-economic systems as the best and the last of all possible human worlds. No ideology has posed a greater threat to the kind of planning advocated by the Planners Network than…
...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…
...round aquifers and the inputs necessary to sustain soil fertility. The seed-to-table idea extends the food system concept further to include processing facilities, transportation systems, warehousing and distribution centers, supermarkets, restaurants, farmers markets and farm stands and of course, consumers.…
...ncies to serve the supposedly neutral public interest. On the contrary, low-income communities in particular couldn’t depend on publicly-paid planners to represent their interests. Communities which were not part of the power bloc that elected and kept various politicians in…
...foothold. Many grassroots organizations and community groups have promoted service-based or relatively low-skilled business as the path of least resistance. These sectors often are lower paid and afford few opportunities for job ladders. Yet if these jobs were to be…
...e nutritional resource environment with a view to creating a better quality-of-life. This focus is part of a growing initiative, as public health researchers have turned to urban planners for help with a growing number of health concerns, most prominently…
...began working on issues in San Francisco ‘s Chinatown. Today, AND is a full-service professional planning and architectural service that has an annual operating budget of about $4 million and is dedicated to housing and community development throughout the region.…
...Uniform Land Use Review Procedure in which such boards play a role, a “197-a” process for neighborhood-based planning, requirements for information and public hearings, etc. However, the City Planning Commission has not played any visible role in the current debates…
...ts, carry out research and creative work, and provide departmental, college-wide, and external service. The primary responsibilities of the selected candidate will include the development and teaching of introductory and core courses in the discipline, including courses in your area(s)…
...l happen to Planners Network, the organization? Throughout our nearly three-decades-long history, there has been a continuing tension between two models for PN. One is the network model. The function of the network has been to foster connections among progressive…
...Do? Through organizations such as Grassroots International (www.grassrootsonline.org), support the community-based NGOs mentioned here that are providing essential services and advancing rights to land, water and food. Pressure the U.S. Congress to stop military aid to Israel. Pressure Israel and…
...y planning and development review support services to clients Support short- and long-range planning exercises including in-community consultation Research planning policy and best practices Assist with proposal writing Interface with clients remotely through email, conference calls and video calls Assist…
...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…
...ple, not with people. Planning students are taught how to wield the most up-to-date technical tools, but frequently they are not taught how to work with people in a way that puts the power to make decisions into the hands…
...ortant and challenging projects, opportunities to contribute to and join in-service events for our local communities, and regular performance recognition. Affirmative Action/EEO Statement Ascent provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion,…
...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…
...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…
...ee delegates on the EC for its population of 950,000. Livingston County, a fast-growing area on the furthest periphery of the metropolitan region, is allocated four delegates for its population of 157,000. In other words, Detroit gets one vote for…
...k and Twitter. About Planners Network Planners Network is a 501 (3) (c) non-profit organization. Get details on how to Join Planners Network For submissions to the new online Magazine, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives, visit www.progressivecity.net/contact (scroll down for submission…
...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 source of…
...d at the following links: https://aap.cornell.edu/academics/department-city-and-regional-planning https://provost.cornell.edu/academic-initiatives/radical-collaboration/civic/ Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University’s heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. We also recognize a lawful preference in employment…
...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…
...or member organization engagement, media inquiries, communications, and day-to-day operations of the network. The ideal candidate will be a passionate early or mid-career community development professional with experience working with non-profit community-based organizations, affordable housing organizations, and social real estate…
...p-down urban planning counterparts who take a product-oriented, know-what’s-best-for-you-approach to a more trans-disciplinary approach to design and community development. It’s an approach that moves from a superficial development of functional and, too often, dysfunctional forms to a substantive understanding of…
...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…
...heart of cosmopolitan Montreal, our faculty and students benefit from state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities and compelling program offerings in our four Faculties, Library, School of Graduate Studies and Centre for Continuing Education. Today’s challenges require new, collaborative, interdisciplinary thinking…
...e https://employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/job/511178/associate-director-sustainable-solutions-lab General Summary: The Associate Director within the Sustainable Solutions Lab will work closely with the SSL Director on a wide range of initiatives and programs. S/he will play a lead role in key partnership development with external partners,…
...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…
...military-oriented intelligence systems work in U.S. cities, employing state-of-the-art secure “fusion centers” with cutting-edge computer and communications equipment. These hubs are veritable copycats of the military’s “tactical operations centers,” which can be thought of as coordinating units that integrate a…
...sed on urban issues—the U.N.-sponsored World Urban Forum (WUF) and a social-movement-sponsored Social Urban Forum (SUF)—took place in Rio de Janiero in the last week of March, 2010. The forums were extremely different, almost existing in two different worlds, but…
...out the market’s appetite for new supply. Even when speculating on the long-term (20-30 years) need for new office and commercial space, the city should continue to strengthen the expanding central business districts in its outer boroughs, such as Brooklyn…
...enance. Due process in eviction procedures Due process—fairness in decision-making—is a constitutional requirement of all actions of government for the protection of those it affects. In the case of public housing it is a right of its residents. For private…
...First, they are the location of most metropolitan area jobs, including the best-paying jobs, and the nucleus of key industries — what economists call the advantages of “agglomeration.” Second, these city-based firms and industries spin off jobs that are located…
...y advocates. Childspace Cooperative Development Inc. (CCDI), a Philadelphia-based developer of worker-centered childcare enterprises, cosponsored the gathering with a local think-tank. CCDI is a driving force behind this unusual organizing campaign, mobilizing employers and employees alike. CCDI is best known…
...and 8,000 square feet for small, incubating retail businesses. The elevator-serviced front boulevard buildings contain the smaller households with few or no children. The other half of the units, for larger families, have their own two- and three-story homes located…
...one happens to ask will the front desk security guards provide a small, out-of-date guide to City Hall. Countless meetings may be going on in City Hall that affect everyday life, but they are very poorly promoted. At least in…
...held mostly by women have fallen to automation. Call centers and other high-tech/low-skill industries are being outsourced to women in low-wage areas and in the South. Of course, technology also confers access to an unprecedented amount of knowledge and communication,…
...ctivities. Some of the results were impressive, particularly the huge paint-on-cardboard images protesting welfare cuts and denouncing a proposed stadium that would wipe out a Newark, New Jersey neighborhood (created in the “Making Your Issue Visible” workshop led by Los…
...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,…
...dditional opportunities for release time may become available through grant-funded, community-based research projects. We especially welcome candidates whose professional experience, community engagement, and personal background have facilitated their understanding of, and ability to, better serve students from traditionally underrepresented communities…
...ommunity concern over the new expansion is not just parochial NIMBYism (Not-In-My-Backyard). When President Lee Bollinger asserts his desire for a campus expansion with a definite “Columbia identity,” this history of racial exclusion and aggressive unilateralism invokes legitimate distrust and…
...lessness when the Warren Buffets and Ted Turners of the nation sit on multi-billion dollar nest eggs (even after one of them gives away a billion). They win when they talk about income inequality and the need for the average…
...ners may be able to make a connection between the power of oil and the auto-dependent, highway-based model of urbanization. What is the issue for progressive urban planners? We are against the displacement of low-income communities, the formation of segregated…
...der and leader of PEO who passed away last year. It was the first community-based plan in the city, took forty-five years to implement and resulted in a phenomenal redevelopment of the 11-block area with an unprecedented 60 percent of…
...ses in Abiquiu and New Caanan, respectively, came into being. O’Keeffe’s on-again, off-again romance with Maria Chabot is critical to understanding the landmark. In the words of Paula Martinac, “the renovation of the Abiquiu house was overseen by Maria Chabot,…
...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…
...prevalent form of garment production in New York is, however, based on the cheap labor of risk-taking immigrant business owners and their co-ethnic workers. Since the emphasis is to internalize production in fairly established small manufacturers, Sunset Park’s immigrant contractors…
...stainable cities. But Vietnam ‘s “market socialism” seems to be mostly free-market capitalism; it is creating structural poverty, segregated cities and environmental destruction. The historic balance between agriculture, industry and urban life is being destroyed. A rich street life is…
...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…
...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…
.... Begun in the 1970s by counter-culture young people, HOB works with larger-than-life puppets worn by the players and relies on original scripts and live music, much of it now international ethnic folk material. After working out of a series…
...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…
...that no one was interested in talking to her because she was white, French-born and formerly middle-class. She claimed that the reporters preferred to talk to the activists or to the people of color. While most people there were de…
...e who may share a rented or self-owned home, and setting restrictive person-to-room ratios. The standards are purposefully designed to be biased against certain groups by legislating away the right to have extended or large nuclear families live together. Once…
...quities and foster civic engagement. Such strategies can produce both short- and long-term outcomes, outcomes that emerge from the creation of effective partnerships, reliable critical forecasting, new epistemologies, meaningful policy interventions and active citizenship. Engaging the City: An Exercise in…