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...story changed its course. Meanwhile, among the eight billion humans in the world today, I don’t think many remember exactly when the tragedy of Chile happened. That famous North American exceptionalism has in fact ended, the attitude that has allowed…
...he complexion of cities. By the 1990s, successive waves of in-migration by rural African Americans and out-migration by mobile whites had created several predominantly black cities. African Americans became so visible in many central cities that some scholars defined their…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...world’s resources and living off the surplus drained from the rest of the world. The Western world, Japan and a handful of “newly developed” countries continue to hog the lion’s share of capital and commodities. This feast is warming and…
...ty of Winnipeg. For more information on the Detroit Project, visit www.detroitproject.com. For more information on the Project for the New American Century, visit www.newamericancentury.org....
...ssmen, military people whose arms purchases (the highest per capita in the world) are helping the American economy keep afloat. Beyond that there is no feeling at all, for instance, for the dreadful suffering of the Iraqi people whose identity…
...tial progress in bridging the wealth gap created by slavery. Shortly after World War II, the American government created the Veterans Administration (VA) and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) home loan programs. Among other things, the programs were part of an…
...the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing problems facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. It brings together government leaders, ministers, mayors, diplomats, members of national, regional…
...ites have deflated some of the pressure for integration. Many suggest that today we live in a “post-civil rights world,” and so perhaps the need for integration, like the civil rights movement itself, has faded. This would be an unfortunate…
...uns of the Vietnam War and the butter to meet urban needs. The same holds true today. The overall cost of the U.S. military budget, including current wars, is now conservatively estimated at over $1.1 trillion by historian Chalmers Johnson…
...were exacerbated by the storm and that disproportionately affected African Americans. The challenge today is to reform and heal the city within a framework of justice, where the right to return must include both the right to physically re-inhabit the…
...but because it is the most influential political-economic ideology in the world today; because it severely constrains not only what planners do, but also what they think they can do. In order to liberate planning practice from the boundaries erected…
...r constituentsí concerns about the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the World Wars of the twentieth century. If eighteenth century Americans living in small towns and newly burgeoning cities could discern how world events had…
...n this context, urban planning was a clear and explicit political project. Today international economic restructuring and globalization are transforming the U.S. political economy. Moreover, as the US shifts from an industrial to a service economy it has become increasingly…
...ly. This isn’t strictly a matter of separate identities. It is the class struggle, never a “pure” struggle and always mediated by social identities and specific environmental conditions. Readers may find similar views in Andy Merrifield’s new book, Dialectical Urbanism,…
...f a focus on individual mobilization and voter discipline with a radical structural critique of society. This structural critique was grounded in the ideas of internal colonialism and cultural nationalism, with the school system seen as a central instrument for…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...ng. Earlier this year I sent out a….. For the full text download the First Newsletter from our Newsletter Archives [/quote] [/half_last] On the domestic scene, Jim Crow was dead and affirmative action alive. Community, women’s and other grass roots…
...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…
...ally new types of commodities. What we usually understand by globalization today refers to the first of these damage control mechanisms, the injunction to spread into underdeveloped or former socialist regions, or to perish at the center. Today this process…
...ster recovery efforts. The extraordinary “second-line parades” that often erupt in the working-class African-American neighborhoods are hosted by “social aid” and “pleasure” clubs with fantastic names like the Treme Sidewalk Steppers, the Double Nine High Steppers, The Moneywasters and the…
...e to the regional averages, with slightly more Caucasian and fewer African American participants, and a higher percentage who identified themselves as Asian, Native American and Other. The income of Imagine NY participants closely mirrored that of the region’s population.…
...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…
...n on right-of-return policies, strengthened rent controls, community land trusts, and other policy tools can help to stabilize struggling communities and keep people in their homes. The government must also intervene to ensure the maintenance and creation of truly affordable…
...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…
...a direct legacy of advocacy planning. Advocacy planning is an important thread of today’s transformative community development planning–but, there were significant shortfalls in the vision offered by advocacy planning. Today’s debates on the US left about what planning practice should…
...gement of this most precious resource. In practically every country in the world today there are clashes over water—who owns it, who controls it, who needs it. But you don’t hear much about the role of water in the Mideast,…
...less political pressure points. While advocacy planning is an important thread of today’s transformative community planning, there were significant shortfalls in the vision. Debates among progressive planners today about what our practices should be are a reflection of these shortfalls.…
...Southeast Asian refugees were settling in East Oakland, where the African-American and Hispanic-American communities had settled over the last five decades. To achieve harmony between the racial groups, the Asian-serving non-profit elected to joint venture with a neighborhood-based non-profit that…
.... From the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, to the forced migration of refugees from U.S.-led military conflict in Southeast Asia, to post-9/11 surveillance targeting Muslim and South Asian communities,…
...tia, Vietnam, Singapore, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Russia, Japan and Finland. His teaching has won widespread praise from students and colleagues for his conscientiousness in course preparation, openness to the input of others and the thoughtfulness in which…
...here is a portfolio of actions and projects often recurring throughout the world. These include renewal of central areas, the development of teleports in big cities, redevelopment of port areas, rehabilitation of commercial areas, and the construction of roadways. Investments…
...e rights they violate or deny. GRI partner Pólo Sindical dos Trabalhadores Rurais do Submédio São Francisco (Union Pole of Rural Workers of the Lower-Middle São Francisco River Valley ) works with displaced rural communities along the border of Brazil’s…
...itary proceeded to devastate over a five-year period. This miniature Disneyworld is a slice of Northamerican life, a few square miles of quiet office buildings, shopping and night life, while the rest of the city goes without power and safe…
...ession, the mechanization of agriculture was transforming large numbers of rural African-Americans into urban immigrants. In the opening decades of the present century this population of former slaves and their descendants began leaving the southeast for the great cities of…
...for organizing union members to support it: join forces where people are already in motion. Leavitt also referred to the example of today’s burgeoning labor movement in Los Angeles and its inclusion of workers in low-wage occupations. “People in motion”…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...as well as institutions in the area and almost 4,000 dues-paying members truly runs the organization. Hundreds of volunteers lead and participate in DSNI activities, ranging from working committees to community-wide meetings and planning processes to neighborhood cleanups and festivals.…
...rence, which also involved the American Institute of Architects, National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Society of Civil Engineers, is filled with many of the platitudes that have historically obscured the racial and class biases underlying the theory and…
...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…
...ng the highways the government built and maintained. International lenders rushed in to back the construction of a new urban infrastructure to support new development. In this climate, master plans follow the growth instead of leading it. Government and party…
...rts for months to ensure they will not quit. The study also reported widespread anecdotal evidence of high rates of injury and death in the construction sector, where most builders are private companies whose practices are not well regulated. Even…
...ronic newsletter to update members on more time-sensitive information. The newsletter compiles news and resources submitted to the website and magazine. Facebook Pages PN maintains a facebook page for timely announcements. Some PN chapters have also set up their own…
...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…
...t does need a set of planning strategies produced by diverse communities already struggling against economic, cultural and ecological injustice that will open up spaces for people to imagine, transform and enjoy their city. This struggle for justice in 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…
...frequency, they provide a window through which to see and listen to other worldviews, and to appreciate the struggles of people living in those realities. There are, of course, many other avenues that designers can choose to help enrich the…
...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…
...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…
...year, the Wyandanch development was vetoed by conservative town officials. Today, Wyandanch is still struggling. In 1973 Wyandanch had no sewers and today it is still without sewers, an underdeveloped suburban ghetto. Long Island, too, remains divided on the need…
...Throughout its history, differential access to space has been used to construct and reconstruct social difference in the U.S. Local authority over housing codes, bylaws and zoning regulations has long been used to reinforce segregation, maintain a marginalized labor force…
...area had dropped by 50 percent. The Westlake Community and MacArthur Park Today Today, the Westlake neighborhood is 78 percent Latino. Depending on how neighborhood boundaries are drawn, 65 to 70 percent of the area’s population is foreign-born, and fewer…
...rchitects, Engineers, and Chemists. On the morning of August 12, 1933, the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Civil Engineers published their agreed upon minimum wage standards for draftsmen. Not only were these insultingly low, but the…
...akes the side of the poor and minorities victimized by the pervasive and virulent racism that he calls American apartheid. There is no false “objectivity” here, the façade behind which many establishment planners conveniently cop-out. One of Walter’s lesser-known but…
...rsality, Participation, Transparency and Accountability. Despite its widespread use in advocacy and social change around the world, however, the human rights framework has its critics. Some question the entire concept of second generation rights. These detractors often come from 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…
...order to effectively 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…
...he development of the Third World Jobs Clearinghouse, for example, African-Americans had to trust that their numerical superiority would not be undermined by sharing power with other groups. Second, the problem has to be framed while overcoming the different perceptions…
...ere idea of a moderator makes people more thoughtful and 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…
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...agazine? Website Admin | August 16, 2023 Starting in 2019, articles in the online magazine can be accessed at www.progressivecity.net Read More The ‘Fight For $15’ In Montréal, Québec and The Emergence of a New Kind of Labour Movement Mostafa…
...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…
...week and ignore the practical implications of that theory. For example, we read about the effects of segregation on urban areas and yet ignore the results in our local communities. Secondly, real-world practice by students must be taken seriously by…
...has been the finding that many municipal non-profit officials remain more trusting of higher levels of government than their American counterparts. The Canadian non-profit sector has been and continues to be closer to the state, but most non-profits don’t consider…
...ate from Rutgers University PN Chapter, November 7, 2005 After many years, Rutgers University in New Brunswick now has a PN chapter! We have held two meetings and we have about 15-20 confirmed members. I received about 20 additional positive…
...tive. All of the new schemes included large office towers as their major structures. The firms followed a program established by the LMDC, which included the following guidelines: respect for the footprint of the two World Trade Center towers; space…
...affordable housing, economic development, and public space planner, and was an Assistant Professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona between 2014-2018. She is a former Board member of the Los Angeles section of the American Planning Association We anticipate that…
...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…
...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…
...xic sites and polluting industries, have been located in poor communities. Today, participation has been used to preserve the quality of life for affluent and powerful citizens. Those who already have economic clout are involved in politics in ways that…
...ving. Healthy products, from scratch ingredients or prepared, must be made readily available and priced as competitively as the always readily available unhealthy food. From a political-economic standpoint, this is also doable, but it must be supported through public policies.…
...d’s experience highlights the lack of diversity in the planning profession today: African-Americans and Latinos are heavily underrepresented in the planning field (especially in the private sector); few minorities are in senior-level positions in their organizations; and many planners see…
...for new incinerators had to be scaled down during the Great Depression and World War II, so the city’s sanitation infrastructure continually lagged behind its needs. Most garbage ended up as landfill for public works projects like Robert Moses’ parks…
...ies Act Protections – A Planning Issue That Demands Planning Action! On February 15, 2018, the House of Representatives voted (225 to 192) to roll back the protections from the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title III: Public Accommodations and Commercial…
...rt on my impressions of planning after years of close association with the American Planning Association (APA) and American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), and much conversation with planning practitioners around the U.S. I have come to believe there is…
...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…
...nglophone population, it is the second largest French-speaking city in the world. Montréal is famed for its innovative culinary scene and festivals that run throughout the year. As North America’s number one choice for international events and festivals, it was…
...s on race and class in this country. The disturbing images of poor African Americans struggling to survive in an abandoned city and the inadequate response of the government forced uncomfortable thoughts into the national consciousness. Suddenly, race and class…
...ation Guide in the News & Knowledge section. See back issues of the former print magazine (including the last issue: Spring 2016: Fighting Displacement in Barcelona) in the News & Knowledge section. See the latest E-Newsletter by clicking here. See…
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...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…
...ally 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), “Best City for the Next Decade” (Kiplinger), the…
...appealed, more members need to be “member-contributors,” not just “member-readers.” PNers around the world are fighting the good fight on the broadest range of issues imaginable. Among PNers there is surely a great diversity of opinions and perspectives concerning the…
...onferences and campaigns. In 1975, Networkers in New York City started a forum series that continues today. There have also been local activities in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto. Today chapters are forming in many other U.S.…
...t of electronics and carpeting goes to producing and maintaining cars and trucks. To make cars run, we buy 133 billion gallons of gasoline a year. Pollution and Health Cars cause asthma attacks. A study published in the Journal of…
...st of these vehicles are cars, 40 percent of the land in the typical North American city will be devoted to streets, parking lots, driveways, and garages, as it is now. This is bad news for the urban environment for…
...effort to transform society. But how might this happen, and what would a truly sustainable world look like? NOVEMBER 16, 2017 Everyday Radicals: What #TheResistance Can Learn From the League of Revolutionary Black Workers In too much American political discourse,…
..., 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…
...nd implementation of particular projects rather than broad societal reconstruction. While there is a qualitative difference in the dynamic of today’s discussions of alternatives to capitalist development, that discussion remains vital. The Circuit of Capital Marxist analysis is as useful…
...of the uneven development of capitalism, bound to be followed in the long run by neighborhood redevelopment for profit.” Many of the neighborhoods in the city today that are experiencing intense gentrification are those that were once plagued by landlord…
...early 1990s, as urban neighborhoods were perceived to be under siege—with drugs and crime running rampant and property values declining—vacant land was reclaimed by urban gardeners around the country and transformed from eyesores into mini-Edens through the backbreaking work of…
...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…
...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.…