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...ered social movements, networks and civil society organizations around the world to share their experiences and express their concerns on the collective construction of a different perspective of the city through dialogue, expression of diversity and the strengthening of social…
...States in the lead, is having a grand banquet, consuming far more than its share of the world’s resources and living off the surplus drained from the rest of the world. The Western world, Japan and a handful of “newly…
...an opt for self-interest as a motivation. In an era of privatization and market rule we are facing the fact that governments will have to govern a bit more. But it cannot be a return to old forms –…
...on in Yes Magazine, “it will take years of mind-boggling growth to gain a truly substantial share of the retail food sector: the organic movement could, however, easily achieve an influential share of ten percent or more on some parts…
...the market and drove down prices. Consequently people were forced to leave rural areas in search of economic opportunities in the cities, still facing the likely risk of further poverty and malnutrition. In addition, the food security of the impoverished…
...ghborhood was ravaged by environmental racism, disinvestment and open air drug markets. The Community Leadership Institute (CLI), a resident-controlled council created through the Empowerment Zone and led by longtime activist Rosemary Cubas, opposed the taking and lost the Institute’s public…
...their children to the nearby International School, where they receive instruction in English, and drive to Ciputra’s mall for everyday Gucci goods. Ciputra’s architects may well have seen pictures of new urbanist experiments, for they included sidewalks, should any one…
...comes easier to understand how traditional communities evolved distinctive world-views. Such world-views embody values that were essential for attaining a balanced and symmetrical relationship between humankind and the natural environment. Because it is experientially based, there is a certain tolerance…
...ey face many of the same problems — crime and violence, infant mortality, crumbling infrastructure, inadequate housing, and chronic fiscal crises. Many cities and their inner-ring suburbs have much in common. For example, 8.7% of the suburban population (compared with…
...ledge, and using insights derived from the synthesis to help advance the struggle. In my world, activism and struggle are never separated. My point is that many different types of research and methodologies can contribute to the production and implementation…
...have both market power and public control. TCHC, for example, is a single-shareholder corporation—the single shareholder being the City of Toronto—that is less vulnerable to direct provincial or federal government decisions but is publicly controlled by the city. Simply put,…
...ise: providing for precisely those people and communities whom the housing market persistently excludes. This proposal is particularly imprudent in light of the recent foreclosure crisis, which has demonstrated that markets alone will not address the basic needs and rights…
...INA (“There Is No Alternative”) is touted as the only alternative. US free-market capital rules a global empire. The US model of sprawled, segregated urban development is spreading across the globe. The failed socialist alternatives are criticized for being utopian.…
...d at from within. Planners are significant players in creating the sort of world we want. We need to ask ourselves if the world we are now seeing emerge is one in which we want to share credit. The peace…
...assimilation of foreign immigrants, it also calls for foreign language instruction for native English speakers to improve their entry into the global economy. Thus the third regional plan represents a major step forward in focusing on labor force participation as…
...ners Network Forum May 18-19, Ithaca NY This 2-day conference provides a forum to share strategies community-level planners, nonprofits, and activists are using to cooperate to achieve regional equity goals, even in the face of shrinking budgets and political opposition.…
...n the 1990s to redevelop a site in East Oakland that was an abandoned supermarket, in an area long ignored by the private market. A 35-year-old non-profit corporation, primarily serving the Asian community in Oakland’s downtown, recognized that many new…
...e long wave of capitalist expansion from 1893 to 1914 that culminated in structural crisis and ultimately World War I. That crisis is instructive today because it proves that capitalism without planning is unsustainable. Unless the free-wheeling adventures of global…
...dels and offer prototypes, and few community organizers. State and Local Structures The Housing Restructuring Act of 1992 reorganized the housing owned, financed, and administered by the central government. The non-commercial Housing Corporation was taken apart and Housing New Zealand…
.... Neighborhoods Call for Fair Share In 1990, New York City created a “Fair Share” rule that required consideration of the local impact of various new public facilities. The guidelines would ensure the benefits of needed services and burdens of…
...eople who enter from all parts of the world, we travel to all parts of the world.” The rubber really hits the road, however, at the municipio level. In Magdalena de la Paz, the seat of the autonomous municipio of…
...ular urban movements walked out of the national NGO-dominated networking forum—a forum that also sought to regulate international networking—in 2006 because they felt that they were systematically disrespected by the NGOs and treated as if they were stupid rather than…
...hoods. While offering little service, the project threatened years of construction disruptions and the elimination of most street parking. Only after each community filed a civil rights complaint with the Federal Transportation Agency did the region’s MPO, known as the…
...Hundreds of Workers Laid Off,” or “Area Foreclosures Increase,” along with news about business closures, bankrupt financial institutions and increasing rates of homelessness. Such headlines and news are not very different from those of the late 1920s. Indeed, the scale…
...ave of vacant properties. Among these are the luxury condos that were constructed for the higher end of the housing market during economic “good times,” as well as newly foreclosed properties. Our count helped provide a framework for the Right…
...over 4,000 residents of the New York metropolitan region came together to share their thoughts and ideas about the memorializing of the World Trade Center tragedy, the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan and the future of communities throughout the region. Participants…
...se demonstrates the fundamental relationship between globalization and the world market ushered in by capitalism. By far the best expression of this position comes from Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto: “The need for a constantly expanding market for…
...aw water from the Jordan, soon taking more than its previously agreed-upon share. Syria and Jordan responded by starting construction of diversion schemes of their own. In 1965, Israel attacked the Arab construction sites and the ensuing border conflicts culminated…
...rs, the actors seen as most capable of carving out the city’s place in the world market. In Brazil, the main event launching strategic planning was the arrival in 1993 of a delegation from CataluËa (Spain) in Rio de Janeiro.…
...e major concerns. What kind of transportation is needed? The attack on the World Trade Center caused major disruptions to New York City’s mass transit network, the largest in the nation and central to the city’s functioning. Subway lines below…
...Midwest than Mideast. It is home for the largest U.S. Embassy staff in the world, and a new embassy building now under construction will be a giant fortified bunker, the largest in the world. It will have 21 buildings, its…
...nizations, community development and economic development corporations; 2) breaking down the academy’s insularity and connecting to the world beyond the ivory towers; 3) turning university resources outward through an applied research project, encouraging graduate and undergraduate students to collaborate with…
...f Planners Network. Access to back issues are available to paid members. E-Newsletter and Newsletter Archives We launched an E-Newsletter in 2005 to update paid members on more time-sensitive information. Access to archived e-newsletters are available to paid members. PN…
...ll Be the Effects of the Plan? While the plan represents a victory for the ruling classes of Toronto and the world, some of the background documents prepared for the plan reveal traces of a struggle, even within City Hall.…
...e independent lives. Another important chapter, “The Road to Environmental Ruin,” details car culture’s many destructive effects on the natural and built environments. The indicators of an unsustainable car culture are many: asthma from tail-pipe emissions, loss of diversity due…
...start as a financiera. In RENASEH’s view, social housing (urban as well as rural) should emphasize incremental construction and remodeling of units with reliance on individual and collective self-help, progressive microcredit loans and other forms of creative, non-mortgage financing. This…
...sprawl. They say that sprawl increases public expenditures for new infrastructure while existing infrastructure in central cities and older suburbs is allowed to disintegrate. However, there are also costs to growth management. When you make the choice (in our economic…
...en to reduce waste include improved governmental and private support for research and development of products and markets for recycled material. Mining the urban environment for the untold wealth discarded each day would be more of a reality if the…
...ist Richard Butler, who says openly that Arabs have a different notion of truth than the rest of the world – have made it clear that even if Iraq is completely reduced militarily to the point where it is no…
...provide for the management of land, in perpetuity, in Toronto’s Kensington Market. We remove property from the pressure of the commercial real estate market, and hold it for local community benefit. Job Application Deadline: 10 July 2023 at 5:00 pm…
...gendered planning issues? Women and New Technology. Men still dominate the world of computers and automation, though this world affects women quite differently. Low-skill clerical and assembly line jobs held mostly by women have fallen to automation. Call centers and…
...nvolving a fundamental difference over whether water is a human right or a marketable commodity. For rural small producers from the Middle East to Latin America, there is no question that access to and control of water is essential to…
...ght on speculation can’t be sold and lots of new ones sit half completed. Office and hotel vacancies are increasing. The question now is how long the bubble built by cheap petroleum, concentrated wealth and global capitalist profligacy can last…
...interacting and facilitating interaction among individuals who may see the world from distinct cultural paradigms – worldviews embedded in the history of a community and in their individual and collective memories. In multicultural cities, planners often work in communities where…
.... Jill Grant is a professor in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia. The research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Thanks to research assistant Jaime Orser for her contribution…
...as exposed when John Dilulio, the conservative political scientist Bush recruited to run the faith-based program, leaked a letter to Esquire magazine criticizing the President and his advisors for their “lack of even basic policy knowledge, and the only casual…
...that by 2016, Brazil, where the largest offshore petroleum deposits in the world were recently discovered, will jump from having the tenth largest economy in the world to the fifth largest. Lula failed to mention that part of the reason…
...se homogenizing discipline and stifle the voices of the most excluded. The world forums confront even more serious barriers than the national and regional forums because deep language and cultural barriers often prevent basic communication so English—the premiere language of…
...money able to afford to buy that which they wanted; it was specifically structured not to compete in that market. It was also not intended to be managed so as to return the greatest possible monetary reward as profit to…
...vely support movements for racial and economic justice in today’s changing world. Historically, discussion of race relations has been framed as a black-white question in the U.S. Aside from the fact that race is a social, not a biological construct,…
...nswer lies at the root of capitalist production and its guiding force, the market. The capitalist market does not exist to trade commodities; it is the sine qua non of social existence. Production of commodities is incidental to accumulation, which…
...e of a community for the next five to ten decades (long periods by US construction standards and real estate market forces). A site plan, which determines the arrangement of dwelling clusters and open space, as well as how autos…
...unded research at the highest level. Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence, or promise of research excellence, of a recognized international caliber as demonstrated in: the research statement; a record of publications (or forthcoming publications) with significant journals in…
...to improve community life. Scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois carried out path-breaking research, and organizations such as the National Urban League and the National Association of Colored Women made major contributions – which, while documented in other ways, are undocumented…
...the world’s premier research universities, consistently ranking among U.S. News & World Report’s top 10 public universities and the Times Higher Education’s world top 10 technology universities. The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action…
...ng and land policy, Latin American urbanism, and housing provision outside market structures. Roxana Aslan is a master’s student in Urban Planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. She is from Los Angeles, California and attended UC Berkeley and…
...ume authority for representing PN in the work they do locally, and if they share the news of this work with other members by contributing to the newsletter, web site and listserv, our organization can overcome the obstacles inherent in…
...on a broad variety of topics and his work has been widely cited across the world. His writings are in German as well as English. He has written or edited eight books and over 200 papers in over thirty professional…
...of Excellence by Thomas Peters. In this perspective, government should be run more like business. Planners are “entrepreneurs in the market” and “managers”; citizens are “customers;” and planning helps “customers be empowered to solve their own problems” and, of course,…
...City chapter of the Planners Network stands in solidarity with Hunts Point Market workers of Teamsters Local 202 as they strike for a fair wage. As workers and professionals in the built environment, we recognize that cities are run by…
...e planner does not, or conversely, that the planner fully understands the truth (or has the research and analytical tools to get at the truth) about people’s oppression and that the people do not. The process of achieving this balance…
...in its outer boroughs, such as Brooklyn and Queens, rather than flood the market with more space in Manhattan, where building and infrastructure costs are much higher. The Alternative Plan The HKNA plan calls instead for a maximum of 20…
...our nonprofit’s efforts to make the U.S. the best bicycling nation in the world by helping build better bike infrastructure in specific communities nationwide. The successful candidate will focus on the power of building connected bike networks, reducing barriers to…
...try—i.e., rebuilding high-profile buildings and institutions and accepting World Bank loans for long-term infrastructure projects, rather than addressing immediate humanitarian needs—called the entire logic of Mexico’s political economy into question among ordinary residents. This suggests that disasters such as Hurricane…
...terrorists became barriers to local residents who had hoped to welcome the world. The well-documented scandal around Salt Lake City’s bid committee was regularly in the news, and there was a collapse of confidence around anything Olympian. Notable exceptions were…
..., cap-and-trade environmentalism and deep subsidies to the private housing market. The administration’s health care reform supports private insurance and requires everyone to buy it. The free market is allowed to reign except when it comes to protecting the largest…
...mpaign to publicize its work. It’s time for progressive planners to speak truth to the market. Further reading: Rebecca Abers, “From Ideas to Practice: The Partido dos Trabalhadores and Participatory Governance in Brazil.” Latin American Perspectives 23,4 Fall 1996, pp.…
...r major policy maker is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state-run agency that strongly favors its suburban commuters and runs buses that are major polluters and forever stuck in traffic because DOT won’t reduce the number of autos. Transportation Alternatives…
...nd private uses, has no provision for mixed housing, takes into account no market research, pays no attention to costs or available budgets, and is not based on any developed vision for how Lower Manhattan as a whole should develop.…
...esidents only learned that their neighbourhood had been expropriated “from newspaper reports published after the project was officially unveiled” (Rubin 1981) and when a door-to-door survey was conducted in May 1981 asking them how they felt about the expropriation (Logan…
...part of the national lore. Or are we trying to build a future that deconstructs and then reconstructs Canada in the interest of equity? Canada is worth investing in, but we must remember that Canada is not a final product…
...role as a land-grant institution enabling community improvement through research and teaching. Required application materials: Curriculum vitae Letter of application Statement of research and teaching interests Statement of Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Writing samples List of three references…
...social movements in particular. Although it has a long history, the first World Social Forum in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was a key moment in the articulation of and mobilization for the right to the city. A central component…
...two main campuses in Winnipeg, satellite campuses throughout Manitoba, and world-wide research, UM’s impact is global. Discover outstanding employee benefits, experience world-class facilities and join a dynamic community that values reconciliation, sustainability, diversity, and inclusion. We are one of Manitoba’s…
...anning students are the future policy makers, activists, municipal officials, government representatives, and lawyers. They need to be given the opportunity to grow as progressive planners and lead the world in a left direction. Cathy Klump is a graduate planning…
...es to “factories on wheels,” it created the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union (BRU). BRU inaugurated a new era in transportation justice in the 1990s by combining bus rider organizing with legal tools. Its legal tool, Title VI of the…
.... Exclusion, walls, and separation cannot provide security; acceptance and shared fortunes can. Changes in private market real estate developments may lead to a glut of expensive housing and a shortage of affordable housing; the housing goal needs to be…
...ce; waiting for the Department of City Planning (DCP) or other agencies to share public data (and in some cases having to use freedom of information requests) or having to redo existing research; convincing DCP to accept innovative proposals as…
..., the City left half-demolished homes that were then occupied by homeless drug addicts, and large lots of rubble that attracted dengue-carrying mosquitoes and rats. The City also ceased to provide basic services such as garbage collection, making life for…
...uild support for a diverse local food system. Farmers squeezed out of area markets by enormous corporate agribusinesses deserve support and stable markets from public institutions, and youth in our communities certainly deserve access to higher-quality and nutritious food in…
...n past in Plaza Mexico produces an illusionary field on which both to construct a collective identity around a shared notion of Mexicanness and to imagine and mobilize towards a different common future. The latter opens up venues for agency…
...orated with capital in the special historical circumstance of a capitalist world dominated by the U.S. after World War II. This economic success allowed capital to sweep a few crumbs off the table in exchange for labor peace. Meanwhile, popular…
...officials are talking seriously about expanding the use of community land trusts to take property off the speculative market and collectivize its ownership. In What a City Is For, Vancouver-based Matt Hern asks provocative questions about the right to the…
...ubsidiaries that have any business dealings with Cuba. (Some say you canít run for dog catcher in Dade County without opposing Fidel.) And after spending millions of dollars to attract the world to Salt Lake City for the most recent…
...es, have proven that “Another World Is Possible,” to use the phrase of the World Social Forum. In the U.S., many progressive professional planners went to work in public agencies and became quiet advocates from within. Norman Krumholz popularized the…
...ties that everyone, every group, and every interest will or should or must accept in their own best interest. It is a delusion to think that only our ignorance or stupidity prevents us from seeing what we all need to…
...nadian society. Concordia recognizes the potential impact that career interruptions can have on a candidate’s record of research excellence and will take them into careful consideration in assessing applications and throughout the selection process. All applicants will receive an email…
...velopment in Upper Manhattan. Columbia is moving forward on initial infrastructure construction for the Manhattanville expansion despite an ongoing lawsuit filed by property owner Nicholas Sprayregen challenging the validity of the city’s environmental impact review and the Empire State Development…
...ust and Sustainable Transportation. As we said in the last issue of the PN Newsletter, “We strive to remain a forum that gives voice to ideas and topics that would not otherwise get attention in mainstream circles…[and] encourage dialogue in…
...their relevance in the United States or international contexts. Areas of research may include housing, economic development, climate crisis, transportation and infrastructure systems, and urban data analytics. We anticipate that candidates for this position will teach a combination of workshop,…
...rchitects. In addition, Borja could help us understand how the competitive market of international urban consulting works and help us to unveil a market, one that plays such an important role in the diffusion of models, languages, values and concepts.…
...and 2) business entrepreneur equipped with a spatial understanding of free market economics necessary for facilitating urban development. Embedded in our arbitrary construction of “real” and, shall we say, “imposter” planning are also, of course, certain normative understandings of what…
...er labor, employment training programs and, often, donated materials, construct model buildings and other structures that advance the knowledge of community practice, meet key community needs and provide an opportunity for students and community residents to learn about construction techniques.…
...ervasive belief that, rotten as capitalism may be, all other alternatives are worse or out of reach. Unless we do, Americans will remain unable to name more than one or two worker-owned enterprises, much less identify any of the four…
...lanes, battery-powered trolleys and an ambitious subway system. 4. Infrastructure upgrading: Infrastructure needs to be upgraded according to modern technology 5. New urban image: The city needs a new image that speaks for its regeneration and vitality The detailed urban…
...mmunities, urban sustainability, and social equity through its teaching, research and public engagement. Successful applicants for this position must demonstrate high-quality research, the ability to secure external funding, and a commitment to excellent teaching and mentoring. Applicants should hold a…
...ity as security concerns, real or imagined, arise. Police and the military rule the streets, using increased surveillance of all citizens and often newly enacted laws that ban anti-Olympic protests. Athens spent nearly US$2 billion on security, yet couldn’t protect…
...mal, government faces the new issues and challenges of planning for reconstruction. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has already asked displaced businesses what the city can do to help them rebuild and relocate in Manhattan. The Mayor and City Council Speaker announced…
...udes the extensive involvement of military contracting giants such as Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, Titan, Booz Allen and Raytheon, just to name a few. Compounding this problem, most infrastructure protection projects are designed and carried out by federal contractors…
...line, diesel, hybrid, electric and HFC. Right now, only HFC lacks the real world infrastructure to support it. That might change, but neither you nor I want to be the one betting on it. So what do you want your…