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...ctively engaged in recording testimonies that were played or framed at the installations and which now hang in the Union de Vecinos office. At the Aliso Extension site, the installation was similar to “wraparound sound” emanating from the buildings, the…
...ussed throughout the literature on the neoliberal turn. It is evident, for instance, in the extremely localized responsibility for law enforcement, as we will discuss below. Finally, it is quite clear that for some time the consolidation of cities as…
...theoretical studies, which are unrelated to local problems. Then, in other instances, I am involved in action-orientated research to shed light on specific urban or neighborhood problems, while in other instances, I work with specific neighborhoods to develop transformative plans.…
...e North. In these cases, the NGOs tend to become very anxious, and in some instances highly authoritarian, when popular movements insist on representing themselves and on developing their own analysis of their situation. In South Africa, NGOs that work…
...fendieron sus hijos, surgió en el seno de las Madres. Decidieron, primero, instalar una Universidad Popular, para formar graduados imbuídos de la necesidad de afirmar, en toda circunstancia, la vigencia plena de los Derechos Humanos consagrados por las Naciones Unidas.…
...he participants, or the solid contribution they have made in many specific instances to implementing the progressive goals that they pursued. —- Progressive planning, in the words of the Statement of Principles of the Planners Network, is “an important voice…
...outposts, supported by a thick network of roads, industrial areas and army installations. I have termed this ethnocratic planning, enhancing the expansionist territorial and economic goals, aspirations and interests of a dominant ethnic group while ignoring or deligitimizing the aspirations…
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...and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and racial profiling by police to the instability resulting from electricity cutoffs and evictions. The right to security, though its content will have to be determined by communities themselves, asserts that in principle people have…
...ssociated with food influence our food system. Transportation systems, for instance, can promote or deter sprawl, which affects farmland. Local school districts can purchase food from local farmers to improve farmers’ market opportunities, restrict student access to vending machines that…
...to participants) to guide planning for the following day’s activities. For instance, we set up the mural in response to a request that there be graphic illustration of the workshop’s ideas. And yes, we did end up talking about our…
...srael has expropriated for settlements, highways, “bypass roads,” military installations, nature reserves and infrastructure some 24 percent of the West Bank, 89 percent of Arab East Jerusalem and 25 percent of Gaza. • More than 200 settlements have been constructed…
...nment, the imperial Pooh-bah has chased out independent civil servants and installed only loyalists. Consequently, few agency heads will stick their necks out to support community initiatives that don’t have City Hall’s explicit blessing. And any person or organization that…
...of ISTEA that they themselves identified. Satisfying the Requirements For instance, Albuquerque has four methods of including the public in the decision making process. Coinciding with the annual review of the TIP, the MPO holds a public meeting in which…
...erwhelming opposition throughout the world. The invasion of Iraq increases 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…
...savings deposits) adopted various tactics for occupying public spaces. For instance, people unable to go on vacation brought their chairs and coolers and sat outside the bank, as the alternative to picnics at the beach. While these protests were localized…
...ime in the development that is perceived to be committed by outsiders, has installed turnstiles, gates and security cameras in open spaces that border the high-rise public housing on one side of MGV. Residents don’t seem to feel violated, but…
...ncerned that artists’ space may reap subsidies—for low-income housing, for instance—that may crowd out other worthy and poorer recipients. In some cities, like New York City, tensions between long-time working-class and minority residents of a neighborhood and incoming young artists…
...supplements these internally generated funds—the clinic at Magdalena, for instance, has been supplied by Médecins du Monde for a number of years—but doesn’t provide a dependable resource base. Good Government Pays Instead of revenue collection, the key seems to be,…
...ensselaer Design Center, students have taken on the more modest project of installing lighting in the vertical art gallery at the Kennedy Towers senior housing project. Design-build can also be employed in production work. A cabinet shop that started at…
...now being fought over water are both paradigmatic and actual. In the first instance, the dispute is over how we see water—as a natural resource and public good that is enshrined in international conventions and laws as a basic human…
...cipation to upper levels of government. The Chávez regime is attempting to install a revolutionary government in which central state policies aim to improve the conditions of the poor, while recognizing the importance of working upwards from and with local…
...e Israelis. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the single greatest cause of instability, extremism and violence in our region, is perhaps the simplest conflict in the world to resolve. For almost 20 years, since the PLO’s recognition of Israel within the 1949…
...s at home—with their tax and spending policies that threaten dire economic instability and with their social policy initiatives that are both cruel and short-sighted. The time when mass protest is possible will come. We should be ready and receptive,…
...sportation Agency did the region’s MPO, known as the Met Council, agree to install additional station stops in the minority communities. Now with the stations approved, the communities are being offered little to ensure that market-driven TOD does not displace…
...ark twenty-four hours a day, every day, and surveillance cameras have been installed. The New York Times (4/17/05) reported that by 2004, homicides in the Rampart District had dropped to 27 and, according to a more recent Los Angeles Times…
...r (in this case the city). The Aboriginal People’s Council of Toronto, for instance, withdrew from the process, citing lack of capacity to sit at the table. In hindsight, it appeared to be the wisest decision. APG and its partners…
...otential of alleviating homelessness and poverty. Successful examples of alternative forms of tenure and social housing may be found in other industrialized societies where housing, like health care, represents a social entitlement. Shared housing and cooperative housing, for instance, have…
...of Detroit. Judging by the coverage in the September issue and subsequent installations online, the magazine’s angle is to present the nation’s eleventh largest city as all but a lost cause. Naturally, there is a lot of heart and guts…
...,” were common when we interviewed working-class Latino cyclists. In these instances, possible police targeting compounded by ignorance of the law leaves Latino cyclists vulnerable to mistreatment that other groups may not face. There is little opportunity for this group…
...ed zoning in these neighborhoods would create billions of dollars of value instantly. A landowner who owns a two-story warehouse will soon have a piece of land that can hold a 40-story office or residential tower. The fancy stores and…
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...y PNmb and and CUPE. Park(ing) Day – PNmb had the first Winnipeg Park(ing) installation in 2008. We have done a few since, but this year, StoreFront Manitoba has worked to coordinate the event as park of Design Week. Despite…
...nd more people are displaced by gentrification, war, deportation, economic instability, and other forces, the concept of "Root Shock" is as relevant as ever. In Episode Three of Ear to the Pavement, psychiatrist, author, and scholar Mindy Thompson Fullilove revisits her classic book,…
...nd more people are displaced by gentrification, war, deportation, economic instability, and other forces, the concept of "Root Shock" is as relevant as ever. In Episode Three of Ear to the Pavement, psychiatrist, author, and scholar Mindy Thompson Fullilove revisits her classic book, Root Shock: How Tearing…
...olicy and development (on climate change, infrastructure, and housing, for instance), and inflects in democratic practice, its erosion and its possibilities. A focus on the digital life of participation would bring to the Department of City and Regional Planning a…
...ning. Being a registered or licensed professional planner (RPP or LPP, for instance) as recognized by the Professional Standard Board (PSB) for planning profession in Canada, or demonstrating a commitment to seeking professional certification following acceptance of the offer, is…
...e’s opening ceremonies for an international symposium. Within City Hall we installed an exhibition featuring some recent examples of excellence in city-building from around the world. We featured best practices in all elements of human settlement building; architecture, landscape architecture,…
...ill do better at planning than a student who graduated as a filmmaker, for instance. Committees may never even consider applicants with degrees in fine arts, humanities or communications. These kinds of selection criteria affect the classroom mix, the range…
...ling where opportunities for these options do not exist. Reconciling these instances by creating and enhancing environments where individuals have choices for different modes of travel should be a top priority. But while improved conditions may be necessary, they are…
...laboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Winstanley/Industry Park Neighborhood Organization in East St. Louis; and · Community-driven planning efforts such as the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston. While these initiatives differ greatly in scope and…
...ntrol in the planning process before the hearing would not suffice in this instance. EPDC demanded that neighborhood organizations be given representation on the planning committee for the extension. As an official part of the planning committee EPDC would be…
...suburbs.” Despite the prominence that race is given in the plan, however, instances of overt discrimination such as willful housing segregation are never discussed. Instead the issue is handled mainly as a matter of economics. The absence of African-Americans and…
...tify the common good, and take responsible action together. Thus, in every instance, planning is potentially a democratic practice. This potential has long been recognized by progressive planners, and the postmodern period affords room for its vigorous expression. The power…
...American economy keep afloat. Beyond that there is no feeling at all, for instance, for the dreadful suffering of the Iraqi people whose identity and existence have simply been lost sight of in the present situation. Pictures of four (or…
...heir plans than they would have without them. Several subsequent studies have confirmed this relationship. Of course, there are risks for workers, since not all employee ownership plans succeed. About 0.8% of all ESOPs have gone bankrupt, for instance, harming…
...people like Walter Thabit of New York City, the now-retired founder and mainstay of Planners for Equal Opportunity through the 1960s and early 1970s. Bob Heifetz, grizzled veteran of the Bay Area Peace Navy. Carlos Suarez of La Gran Alianza…
...oid of any representations of oppressed and dominant groups in the US. For instance, permanent residents are asked to memorize the meanings of the colors of the US flag (red for courage, white for justice, blue for truth) and the…
...n, develop more ethnic pride, and do better in school as a result. In some instances, these hopes may be realized. But in many cases this scenario is a recipe for disaster. Young males return to the pueblo of their…
...d to a community base. Such developments are more inclusive and, as in the instance of Indian gaming, engage outside investors, employees, planners, and patrons. Indian governments must now compete for advantage in the same global economy as neighboring non-Indian…
...access to households by collaborating with the local telephone company to install ethernet connections in apartment buildings. Neither PEN nor BEV specifically target low-income populations, however, and profiles of their users reveal a more privileged community. For example, a 1997…
...ere will be no major transportation improvements without social costs. For instance, if the MTA extends the subway to LaGuardia Airport, one or more Queens communities will suffer noise and dust from construction and, depending on the design chosen, the…
...of the city confronts planners with new priorities. We can no longer, for instance, see our professional practice in solely local, regional or even national terms; we cannot simply be “American” or “Canadian” planners. Our work occurs in global and…
...nt. Apparently unhappy about the slow pace of a $19 million pet project to install irrigation systems under city golf courses, the mayor appointed pro-shop manager Richard McDonough to a $60,000 a year Parks job after meeting him while playing…
...not for any building undertakings; it may be for major subway repairs, for instance), streamlining should be on a case by case basis, approved by the City council and mayor, not by revisions of long-standing procedures. Position seven: The city…
...to drive. Some urban redevelopment projects provide greater potential. For instance, the former military base in Calgary offers a mix of rehabilitated housing units and new homes in a central location. Garrison Woods is well-integrated into the urban transit system.…
...vironmental justice and what the state must do about it. This followed the installation of Democratic Governor Grey Davis, who replaced Pete Wilson, a Republican, during whose administration the phrase “environmental justice” was considered really bad. Staff were essentially forbidden…
...he Persian Gulf and the Balkans and hundreds of overseas forward-operating installations thus became the testbed for antiterrorism methods and technologies. The 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen again renewed the protective stance of the U.S. military, while…
...tic of the region, leaving the hilltop for agriculture, grazing or in some instances, public recreational space. Israeli settlement, by contrast, now covets the hilltop as the site for the built-up area of towns and the landscape’s commanding heights. Nowhere…
...cause of the minimal attention to these communities paid by the state. For instance, following two back-to-back earthquakes in Mexico City in 1985 that killed 5,000 people and left 2 million homeless, residents initiated a disaster recovery and planning effort…
...nsion funds) and technical skills to buy land, build schools and parks and install basic utility services. This has enabled residents to basically self-construct their communities and neighborhoods. Regulation. The juntas regulate neighborhood transactions, such as the buying and selling…
...in the downtown core, has been a dramatic increase in parking fees and the installation of parking controls in areas where there were previously none. One strong indicator of the extent to which the issue of sustainable transportation was lost…
...to induce such demand in Lower Manhattan is desirable (as opposed to, for instance, Midtown West, or to the other major subcenters elsewhere in Manhattan and in the other boroughs that are under consideration for development). Such concentration further runs…
...hysical, economic and emotional toll of 9/11, it was evident that, in this instance, the “community” included not only those living, working or owning property in Lower Manhattan, but also those who lost loved ones and jobs and everyone directly…
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