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...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...years of distinguished reporting. Describing “The wickedness and awesome cruelty of a crushed and humiliated people,” he writes that “this is not the war of democracy versus terror that the world will be asked to believe in the coming days.…
...le to local advocates, neighbors and residents is limited. Since they have lives to live and perhaps other issues even more important to champion, they cannot and should not be burdened with micro-level decisions regarding design details. The shift of…
...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…
...roblems with public housing, but these arise from deferred maintenance, corruption and structural social and economic imbalances. For those of us who defend public housing as the only remaining permanent affordable housing program, the issues lie in the widening gap…
...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…
...barracks and trailers where the taxi drivers, waiters and hotel staff that run the city live. Ninety percent of Dubai’s population are immigrant workers with temporary visas and limited rights. They come from India, Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, the Philippines, China,…
...Marcuse Two major world forums focused 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…
...of resistance”. Richard Florida, influenced by Benjamin Barber’s If Mayors Ruled the World, has advocated a new urban agenda comprised of a “devolution” of power to the local level: “to turn back power to the states and the cities, to…
...a teacher and scholar at the Assistant Professor level in Urban Policy and Politics, with a focus on Community Organizing, Labor Studies, Urban Political Economy, and/or Public Policy. The position will begin August 2023. We are interested in candidates who…
...affic Zone, all in Minneapolis. These offer artists an affordable space to live and work in the presence of other artists struggling with many of the same artistic and economic issues. They function as venues for art crawls and other…
...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…
...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…
...earing at City Hall. While the events were clearly related in terms of the politics of whose lives made a difference to the city as reflected in the Plan, the politicians, lobbyists and bureaucrats sat stunned by the intrusion. Many…
...s of scarcity. The Clearinghouse was the result of a long and relentless struggle waged by construction workers in Boston against the construction industry in an effort to persuade the industry to provide apprenticeships and jobs in the construction trades…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...While they, like white women, had no legal or voting rights in the public world of politics, they were very active. Yet they, like their African American brothers, are invisible from the records of their time that planning historians commonly…
...arly. Squatters have always claimed that property ownership rights can be trumped by a moral right to occupy land. At a less radical end of the spectrum, many activists and even city officials are talking seriously about expanding the use…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...of water.” In this issue of Progressive Planning you will read of other struggles for safe, affordable, accessible water in many parts of the world. Many have predicted that wars of this century will be over water rather than oil.…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...es regular columns: The Seventh Generation (for editorial opinion), member Updates, PN News, the Spanish-language column from Latin America, and Resources (Events, Publications, and Web Sites). These reflect the role of the publication as a means for networking. With the…
...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…
.... And then there was the Republican propaganda machine, run by skilled and ruthless operatives whose messages were amplified by networks of evangelical churches and dutifully trumpeted by a sympathetic corporate media. Still, many of us expected the Democrats to…
...imple illustration can convey. For one thing, a new financial regulatory structure is clearly needed to channel funds away from stock run-ups and into productive activity. But even if new regulations could dampen speculative excesses, rapid growth still presents problems…
...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…
...is neoliberalism, the most successful ideology of the last decade, if not world history. This is the ideology that causally links free-markets with democracy and freedom, and thus claims the world-historical victory of Western liberal capitalism over all rival political-economic…
...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…
...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…
...capital, organized political action by labor has fundamentally shaped the world we live in for the better. In the last century alone, working class and anti-colonial revolutions, grassroots movements, and radical politics have made history through reform and revolution. I…
...cut without warning for neighboring houses. Residents who resisted had to live among trash and rubble, and without street lighting and garbage collection, for years. As of 2016, seven years after evictions began in Beira Rio, over 1000 houses had…
...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.…
...repaguá Lagoon. It was first settled over forty years ago by fishermen who lived subsistence lives kilometers away from the developed part of the city, and later by workers brought to the site to build the city’s racetrack. Today it…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...ents were displaced from their homes. Small businesses were at risk of bankruptcy. Transportation systems were destroyed. Air quality and noise were and continue to be concerns. Affordable housing that was to be paid for through the lease of the…
...was championed by Lawrence Veiller and Robert DeForest, later head of the Russell Sage Foundation, the principal sponsor of the first Regional Plan. These earlier efforts shared with the RPNY an overriding emphasis on physical infrastructure as cause and cure…
...reated as separate issues, when they’re really integrated. But what does a politics that truly deals with both look like? The League of Revolutionary Black Workers has an answer. Formed in 1969 and lasting only a few years, the League…
...emonstrations, Argentina ‘s people drove out then-president Fernando de la Rua. A series of short-lived caretaker presidencies followed, and finally, in 2003, elections brought the current president, center-left Nestor Kirchner, to power. Kirchner has flaunted populist rhetoric, taken a tough…
...requirements and increasing parking fees; 3) restricting times for daily deliveries by trucks; and 4) creating more auto-free zones. Limiting auto access would create opportunities to improve the infrastructure for mass transit, pedestrians and bicycles, which together move millions more…
...nd 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), “Best City for the Next Decade” (Kiplinger),…
...communities, i.e., people who like to walk, cycle or use transit choose to live in places more conducive to such behavior. The same holds true for families who move to a neighborhood where they have convenient access to a rail-trail…
...he essays in this issue reassert the vitality and vibrancy of public space politics in a world that is experiencing a significant decrease in opportunities for expression in public space. These examples can help us envision a progressive politics that…
...t of Soweto (South West Township), which was created during the 1890s gold rush to house poorly paid black laborers and is now a magnet for impoverished rural migrants. Yet less than a mile away in Diepkloof, known as the…
...tive that the basic building block for redevelopment is not the physical structures but rather the people who live and do business within the community. The commitment to this community shown by the people who have survived the devastation is…
...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…
...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 vision on…
...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…
...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…
..., quickly learn about their vulnerability within the city. Trans women who live full time as women have the same potential to be treated as targets for harassment, abuse, and street crime. Trans people who do not live full time…
.... The progress in Porto Alegre would be no small matter in any city of the world, but since Brazil has what is often said to be the world’s most unequal distribution of income, public sector efforts can be of…
...New York City’s 8 million? I doubt it, since at the grassroots, where the rubber meets the road in city politics, the diversity of opinions, needs and priorities is certain to make it more complicated. The consolidation of New York…
...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…
...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,…
...City For most of the twentieth century, billions of people throughout the world lived in cities where capitalist growth was not the driving force. In the Soviet Union, China before Deng, and scores of less developed countries in Africa, Asia…
...a and UCLA, Peter has been a visiting professor at universities around the world, including in South Africa, East and West Germany, Canada, Australia, Hungary, Austria, Venezuela and Brazil. He has also given guest lectures at many more universities, including…
...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…
...ocus on providing access to opportunity explicitly, both during the reconstruction process as well as afterwards. The reconstruction of the Gulf Coast will be labor-intensive and require tens of thousands of people working in tandem in order to be successful.…
...2018, the website includes the Progressive Planning magazine archives, PN news, member updates, events, publications, organizations, jobs, and fellowships/grants. The website also includes contact information for local chapters and PN university representatives. E-Newsletter After the magazine switched to a quarterly…
...people with whom organizers work. The RTTC sees neighborhood and citywide politics and policies as important while recognizing that these alone are not enough to attack the structural underpinnings of inequality and justice. Although small wins do not generally lead…
...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…
...up long-range plans for everything from road projects to wastewater infrastructure to economic development. If a voting structure skewed in favor of suburbs leads to the selection of projects that favor predominantly white residents in outlying communities, they claimed, then…
...ological left, but within Madison they were a side issue to the day-to-day politics of service delivery, budgets and political appointments. Jim Rowen, Soglin’s aide, ran for office in 1979 as Soglin’s successor but was decisively defeated, in part because…
...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.…
...answers are in our present and recent past. The annual conferences and the newsletter have proven vital forums for sharing information and ideas. Our web site and listserv are valuable complements to these activities, even if we haven’t utilized their…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...ghly centralized and relied heavily on industrial processes to sustain the lives of inhabitants. But, perhaps most importantly, the structure of the societies that were to inhabit these “arcologies” would have to adapt to their new environments, rather than take…
...t US planning programs. My other examples come from different parts of the world: the Wik people of Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia and their struggle for Native Title to land that was appropriated in the act of white…
...ted as the centrists retreat. As the radical right and its shock troops disrupt town hall meetings and enliven cable television, it’s not mainly the left that is cowered but the traditional moderates and liberals. Good old anti-communist hysteria works…
...racially segregate 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…
...rony about the unlikely combinations which sometimes bring their plans to fruition.” [Excerpted from the Winter 2004 issue of Progressive Planning Magazine] CHESTER HARTMAN Chester Hartman started Planners Network in 1975 as a mimeographed newsletter to some 300 people and…
...ttan’s Upper East Side, one of the most densely populated districts in the world, and also the richest in the world. Concentrated wealth isn’t an issue, so why should concentrated poverty be an issue? Visit our high-rise public housing in…
...ants—mostly from English-speaking countries—to the desert where they could live in isolated suburban neighborhoods. The project, which is to be completed by 2013, disproportionally provides services and infrastructure to the new immigrants, ignoring the needs of people already living there.…
..., main street revitalization, housing, and social planning. Her book, Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie: Race, Urban Planning, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee, (University of North Carolina Press 2018), examines the politics of racialized placemaking and urban development over…
...sphere. Of course, this is a two-edged sword: On the one hand, mandated forums for participation can offer a foothold for struggle. On the other hand, participation today is frequently structured into a win-win framework—if we just hear from all…
...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…
...was not even a pretense. Rather, the US and its client simply informed the world that they are criminal states, and that the structure of binding international law and conventions that has been laboriously constructed over many years is now…
...theoretical knowledge, technical tools and the ability to function in real world planning dilemmas, then I feel it is partially failing. As Planners Network looks into the future and questions its mission, activities, and usefulness, students in progressive planning have…
...ricans living in small towns and newly 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…
...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…
...ping written program outreach materials, including press releases, website news updates, and materials for grants and other communications, as required What you’ll need Master’s Degree in urban planning or a related field Undergraduate studies in related design fields (Architecture/Landscape Architecture)…
...m, as well as presenting cases to City Council. The team also manages code updates. Long Range Planning: This team manages the Community Plan, undertakes special area plans, code updates, and various other planning projects. These projects are often undertaken…
...ies of color is the growth of the prison-industrial complex in exurban and rural areas, a trend benefiting the construction trades and corrections officers — two well organized sectors of the labor force. When will there be a union drive…
...nd systems. We tackle major urban issues with those directly impacted by structural injustice. We believe the people most impacted by structural oppression should have the power to define and create solutions — this is what we call Transformative Justice.…
...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…
...ig and small–, into suburbs, into towns, and into rural areas all over the world. While unrestrained globalization continues to homogenize some places, enclose and expropriate others, and produce new tensions and cleavages; people and communities are resisting. They are…
...reated as separate issues, when they’re really integrated. But what does a politics that truly deals with both look like? The League of Revolutionary Black Workers has an answer. Formed in 1969 and lasting only a few years, the League…