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...profits, on the one hand, and employees’ wages, on the other hand. Recent news stories about garment industry sweatshops in U.S. cities and the exploitation of child labor in the Third World have helped put a human face on corporate…
...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.…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...rnal (Plurimondi, no.2, Summer 1999) which I have guest edited, I tell the stories of “a thousand tiny empowerments,” stories of people and organizations who are practicing a radical, democratic, and culturally pluralist planning sometimes in the face of power,…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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.…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...in restricted sections of cities influenced public policy decisions after World War II. The movement to the suburbs by the white middle and working classes, which one author calls a true “metropolitan revolution,” clearly established decentralization as the dominant urban…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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.…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...conomy. These tensions continue to inspire artists and writers to tell the stories of the complex characters that bring life to these places, creating meaning for the word “neighborhood” that runs deeper than geography. Public Health and the Urban Environment…
...rs who teach planning in two Canadian planning programs. We have each constructed our own stories around this theme of planning, identity and legitimacy and hope that this dialogue will open up discussions and the sharing of your stories. Professional…
...e worked understood that the university team valued that history and their worldview. While it would be naive to think that one could know the world from someone else’s shoes, it is not unrealistic to create the foundation for social…
...part of the planning curriculum. Theoretical study must be linked to real-world practice. Many times I and other students lament how we cram a hundred pages of theory into a week and ignore the practical implications of that theory. For…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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,…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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,…
...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…
...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…
...ing walls, opposing displacement and segregation, diversifying landscapes, breaking the ceilings that prevent their mobility and their effective participation, establishing collaboratives, and reclaiming their health, histories, and voices. For more information visit http://plannersnetwork2014.wordpress.com/ 2013: Beyond Resilience: Actions for a Just…
...since 2000 and has contributed to publications in Montreal and around the world, from Al Jazeera English to the Daily Star in Beirut. In this seminar, Stefan will speak about the role of the arts in social movements in Quebec.…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
..., 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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...method Sharing announcements about the University’s progressive events and news with PN Assisting PN in finding a successor when the Rep can no longer fulfill his or her role These roles are expected to take less than an hour a…
...craft the agenda—but we knew that it wouldn’t do that. Instead it was a forum for people to tell their stories about their communities, for example, stories about the children who suffer from asthma and the prevalence of premature births.…
...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…
...lity, includ ing working with area television stations and Paralympians on news stories and publishing a guidebook about the accessible home. And the East Tennessee Community Design Center helps young people shape public spaces with its Skateboard Park Manual, while…
...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,…
...ative aimed at bringing at least 250,000 new Jewish immigrants—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…
...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…
...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…
...ntradictions of immigration policy, and therefore of citizenship education, suggest how difficult and necessary this work is. Laura Y. Liu, Lyliu(at)rci(dot)rutgers(dot)edu, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Rutgers University Department of Geography....
...ious in the 1970s and has since gotten steadily worse. This is clearly bad news for most communities. But there is also some good news. These cutbacks have spawned pockets of organized resistance, in local communities and at work places.…
...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…
...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…
...ssertively, in this new environment. The modernist conception of planning frustrated our best attempts to right wrongs, undo oppressive systems, equalize structures of opportunity, form productive relationships, and give voice to the factors that support human life. Postmodern conceptions invite…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...Bloomberg after 1993 there was little mayoral support either. The most instructive section of the book is the later chapters that discuss the post-9/11 reconstruction efforts and the Atlantic Yards proposals in Brooklyn, which attracted the really big money backed…
...countable and healing solidarity, and she also has her own media platform Truth Movement Innertainment aimed to highlight community joy. Jackson, Mississippi Sacajawea “saki” Hall Sacajawea “saki” Hall is a radical black feminist activist, a mother, birth-worker, educator and journalist.…
...y imaginable. But the resulting chaos would not be limited to physical destruction and genetic ruin within the targeted region. An attack on Iran could also threaten the entire global economy. If attacked, Iran would be quite capable of shutting…
...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…
...Planning Action and Planners Network in September 2003. Out of Space?: A forum/cabaret on spatial justice, organized in November 2003. Social Justice and Car-free Neighborhoods: A forum in April 2004 on the social justice implications of the potential pedestrianization of…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...ncreases instability and heightens the dangers of terrorism throughout the world. Urban planners and professionals in community development have special reasons for opposing this war. Urban planners are dedicated to the preservation and development of cities. We cannot support a…
...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.…
...droit à la ville (Right to the City). Since then, academics throughout the world have expanded on Lefebvre’s ideas in their writings and lectures. The power of the RTTC approach is in its focus on the everyday actions of people…
...obsession with sex. 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…
...nge the definition of “family” in zoning codes and declare their cities as English-only territories. Exclusionary Zoning and Anti-Immigrant Planning It is well-known that zoning regulations and ordinances have been used historically to exclude and segregate so-called minority populations. The…
...ppressions due to their lack of representation in the civic arena. Limited English language proficiency and a community-wide mistrust of the authorities help explain why it is uncharacteristic of this group to walk into City Hall and demand better police…
...ning process with the residents of San Miguel Analco, a small, low-income, rural community of about 1400 residents in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. We sought to demonstrate that: 1) participatory planning is an effective tool for community development; and…
...oesn’t meet your family’s needs.” Moreover, the pervasive institutional corruption trickles down. “We understand why acts of corruption happen in the cooperatives,” said Pixton. “They’re imitating what they see around them. And they’re economically desperate—if our kids didn’t have anything…
...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…
...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…
...nteract. Told through multiple perspectives, Hernandez weaves together the stories of a literacy program in the Kingston-Galloway neighbourhood of Scarborough. Hernandez interrupts these narratives with vignettes, moments from everyday Scarborough: her ode to east-end women who “walk in the rhythm…
...tributive policies and participatory policy-making procedures. They shared stories about their efforts, as researchers and expert witnesses, to show how well-intended Federal housing policies were reinforcing residential segregation in both Southern and Northern cities. They testified regarding their efforts to…
...ways that are more meaningful and welcoming than the typical open public forum where the setup and tacit or explicit rules for participation may be uninviting. 2. Governance Interface Between Municipal Government and Aboriginal Peoples A growing proportion of people…