The Organization of Progressive Planning
Seventh Generation Occupy Urban Planning! (221 KB) By Tom Angotti and Marie Kennedy Occupy Racism by Chester Hartman Occupy! The Tactic of Occupation and the Movement of the 99 Percent by Jonathan Matthew Smucker What Can We Do In Public? Lessons […]
Seventh Generation Sites Speak Louder than Words: Occupy Wall Street in New York City (471 KB) By Samuel Stein Manufacturing Introduction to the Special Issue on Manufacturing (410 KB) By Jennifer Clark and Pierre Clavel Planners and Manufacturing: An Uneasy Alliance (210 KB) […]
The Seventh Generation An Urban Need for a New Economic Public Policy Approach in Economic Development Practice (190 KB) by Fernando Centeno Feature Articles Public Transit’s Imperiled Future (153 KB) By Lisa Schweitzer Getting There: Putting Accessibility into Practice for Progressive Transportation […]
The Seventh Generation The Austerity Scam by Peter Marcuse Feature Articles Planning in an Age of Austerity—1979 and 2011 by Pierre Clavel MLK Assassination: 1968 Sanitation Strike Reminds Us What’s at Stake Today by Chad Johnson The Right Fit for […]
The Seventh Generation Why Unions Matter: Defending the Great Equalizer by Chris Tilly Feature Articles From and Toward a Queer Urbanism by Kian Goh Challenging the Mixed-Income Housing Paradigm: Preserving Low-Income Communities through Non-Profit Development Initiatives by Michael Pyatok Growing […]
The Seventh Generation The Heresies in HUD’s Public Housing Policy by Peter Marcuse Feature Articles Just Transportation Planning: Lessons from California by Richard A. Marcantonio The Ongoing Debate Over Privatization of Public Housing: National Association of HUD Tenants Comments on […]
The Seventh Generation Demanding Our Right to the City by Cuz Potter Fixing Unequal Cities by William W. Goldsmith and Edward J. Blakely Feature Articles “The Road Home” Is a Road to Nowhere for Black New Orleanians by James Perry […]
The Seventh Generation Beyond Networking, Left Alternatives by Tom Angotti Feature Articles The Invisible Cyclists of Los Angeles by Omari Fuller and Edgar Beltran The 2016 Olympics in Rio: A Community Plays Against the Real Estate Game by Theresa Williamson […]
The Seventh Generation Haiti’s Fault Lines: Made in the U.S.A. by Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly Planning by Transnational Institutions: Can Big Be Beautiful? Planning by Transnational Institutions: Can Big Be Beautiful? by Clara Irazábal Feeding Dependency, Starving Democracy…Still by […]
From the Homeownership Trap to Alternative Forms of Tenure and Financing by Michela Zonta Peter Marcuse and Critical Planning Peter Marcuse at 80: His Extraordinary Contributions to Progressive Planning by Clara Irazábal and Susan Fainstein What We Can Learn from […]
Mobilizing Hope and Obama by Tom Angotti The Right to the City Alliance: Time to Democratize Urban Governance by Jacqueline Leavitt, Tony Roshan Samara, Marnie Brady Sticking It to the Banks and Keeping Residents in Their Homes by City Life/Vida […]
Bengaluru Goes from Garden City to Nano Land by Tom Angotti Feature Articles Israel’s Ongoing War Against the Palestinians of Gaza by Marie Kennedy Playas Para Todos: The Struggle for Puerto Rico’s Coast by Katherine T. McCaffrey Urban Prospects Under […]
The Apartheid Bubble in the Desert by Tom Angotti Feature Articles Integration Exhaustion, Race Fatigue and the American Dream by Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires Participatory Planning in Binghamton, New York by Sean Bennett Master Plan for Havana: An […]
Immigration Palestine’s Problems: Checkpoints, Walls, Gates and Urban Planners by Tom Angotti Immigration Racialized Regulation: Planning in the Face of Anti- Immigrant Sentiment by Stacy Anne Harwood Anti-Immigrant, Sanctuary and Repentance Cities by María-Teresa Vázquez-Castillo Controlling Immigrants by Controlling Space: […]
Planning for Diversity in Canada Planning for Diversity in Canada: From Rhetoric to Action by Amy Siciliano and Norma Rantisi An Alternative Tale of the City: Toronto and the Alternative Planning Group by Uzma Shakir Indigeneity: A Cornerstone of Diversity […]
Feature Articles An Attack on Iran Would Be a Global Disaster: Why Urban Planners Once Again Need to Reject Unprovoked War by Michael Dudley Democratizing Tourism, Illuminating Power: A People’s Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng. […]
Feature Articles Gaza and the Green Zone: Urban Apartheid and Occupied Territories by Tom Angotti State Support for Social Production of Housing? Mexico’s New Housing Law Exposes Planning Contradictions and Challenges by Jill Wigle and Lorena Zárate A Housing Tour […]
Contextualizing Radical Planning: The 1970s Chicano Takeover in Crystal City, Texas by Jonathan Thompson Supporting Resident-Led Revitalization in Librino, Italy by Kenneth Reardon, Filippo Gravagno, and Laura Saija Accommodating Social Diversity in the Gentrified City: Making Space for Families by […]
Security and Planning After 9-11 by Amy Siciliano and Norma Rantisi Networked Security in the City: A Call to Action for Planners by Matt Hidek Civic Duty: From Neighborhood Watch to ‘USAOnWatch’ by Marilena Liguori Israel’s Wall in Palestine: Control, […]
Grassroots Disaster Recovery Planning: New Orleans and Beyond Jason Neville and Clara Irazábal Social Justice in New Orleans: Planning after Katrina Peter Marcuse Transforming Top-Down to Bottom-Up Planning in Post-Katrina Mississippi Jennifer Evans-Cowley and Meghan Z. Gough Involving Students in […]
A View From the Barrios Sujatha Fernandes NEW ORLEANS: RACE, CLASS AND RECOVERY New Orleans After 18 Months: A Disaster Bill Quigley The Right to Return Anna Livia Brand The People’s Plan Kenneth M. Reardon ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY PLANNING: PAST, […]
Twenty-First Century Urban Renewal in Philadelphia: The Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and its Critics Domenic Vitiello 7th Generation – Planning the “Next Great American City:” Public Policy and Social Justice in Philadelphia and Camden Domenic Vitiello Keeping the Community in Community […]
FEATURES Resource Rights and Wrongs Nikhil Aziz 7th Generation – Israel’s War for Water Marie Kennedy Water is Life! Cochabamba, Bolivia against Privatization Don Leonard Urban Water Management in Mexico David Barkin A Bottom-Up Planning Model for a Safe and […]
FEATURES America’s “Dietary Divide” Peter Zelchenko 7th Generation – Chicago 2006: From City Beautiful to Sustainable? Kara Heffernan Why The Midwest Needs Local and Organic Food Lynn Peemoeller Touring Sustainable Chicago Sarah Morton Where Are Poor People to Live? Transforming […]
FEATURES Towards a Transformative View of Race john a.powell, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Daniel Newhart & Eric Stiens 7th Generation Tom Angotti And the Winner in the New Orleans Mayoral Race Is… Chester Hartman Katrina’s Race and Class Effects Were Planned […]
FEATURES Politics With Poetry: The Quest for a Legitimate Architecture of Housing Michael Pyatok 7th Generation Connie Chung and Ann Forsyth Community Engagement Ron Shiffman Diversity in Practice Kathy Dorgan Origins of Community Design Henry Sanoff Equity [or Not] by […]
FEATURES Artists as Community Developers Ann Markusen 7th Generation Peter Marcuse Public Art and Wild Rice Karl Lorenz Art and the Politics of Public Housing Jacqueline Leavitt Artists Meet Community Development in the Bronx Joan Byron Culture as Community Connector […]
FEATURES Participatory Housing Cooperatives: An Argentinean Experiment Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly 7th Generation Ann Forsyth Vietnam Going Global without a Plan: Welcome to the Capitalist World Tom Angotti Good Design Alone Can’t Change Society Kimberly Libman, Lauren Tenney and […]
FEATURES Fighting for Balanced Transportation in the Motor City by Joe Grengs 7th Generation by Tom Angotti Sprawl and Justice by Thad Williamson Strategies to End Domestic Violence and Promote Community Sustainability by Jessica Dexter Community Development as Improvised Performance […]
FEATURES Electoral Politics by Itself Doesn’t Work for the Left by Frances Fox Piven 7th Generation by Chester Hartman and Tom Angotti Back to Basics for Progressive Planners by Peter Marcuse Act Locally: Strategies for Cities and Activists under Siege […]
New York City’s Olympic Bid -Why? Peter Marcuse Integrating Visions and Ethics: A Feat of Olympian Proportions Richard Milgrom 2004 Athens Olympic Games Bring Misery to Roma Communities in Greece COHRE Atlanta’s Olympic Legacy Anita Beaty Declining City, Big Ambitions: […]
Building Bridges Eve Baron Sharing Indigenous Planning Ted Jojola Pioneers of Advocacy Planning Columbia’s Manhattanville Expansion Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero & Robert E.Fullilove Book Review: Root Shock Review Cynthia Golembeski From Disinvestment (Abandonment) to Reinvestment (Gentrification) Ann Meyerson & […]
City Planners Realize Windfalls for Developers and Oppose Inclusionary Zoning Alex Schafran Planning in New York City : Walls that Divide, Bridges that Unite Tom Angotti Planning for All New Yorkers: The Campaign for Community-Based Planning Eve Baron Olympic Glory […]
Bad Meat and Brown Bananas By David C. Sloane 7th Generation By Katherine Crewe Philadelphia’s Food Trust and Supermarket Access By Hannah Burton Inner City Grocery Retail: What Planners Can Do By Kami Pothukuchi Food System Planning:Setting the Community’s Table […]
Urban Planning For Active Living: Who Benefits? By Kristen Day Seventh Generation: The Environment’s Role in Physical Activity: Necessary but not Sufficient By Ann Forsyth The Key to Good Health is Not in the Ignition By Lavinia Gordon America’s Obesity […]
On the Practical Relevance of Marxist Thought By Renee Toback Seventh Generation By Tom Angotti Participatory Planning in Cuba By Marie Kennedy, Lorna Rivera and Chris Tilly Sound Theory and Political Savvy By Morris Zeitlin Socialists and Cities By Joan […]
War and the Urban ‘Geopolitical Footprint’ By Michael Dudley Seventh Generation By Tom Angotti Over 160 US Cities for Peace By Eugene Patron Dividing and Rebuilding Beirut By Katja Simons Vieques: El Impacto del Bombardeo en las Poblaciones Civiles Plan […]
Post 9/11 Section: The Ground Zero Architectural Competition By Peter Marcuse Seventh Generation By PN Editors Imagine New York By Penelope Duda and Eva Hanhardt Post-9/11 Planning By Tom Angotti From Pruitt-Igoe to the World Trade Center By Clara Irazabal […]
Special Issue on Transportation The Costs of Auto Dependency By Lisa Schreibman Seventh Generation By Tom Angotti Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice By Rich Stolz Toronto Car Culture Is Alive and Well By Janice Etter Toronto Cyclists Fight for Respect […]
Special Issue on 2002 PN Conference Bridging Divides, Building Futures: A Puerto Rican Perspective By Agustin Lao-montes Seventh Generation By Eve Baron Bridging Divides, Building Futures: Conference Planning as Cross-Cultural Dialogue By Kiara L. Nagel 2002 Planners Network Conference Summary […]
Table of Contents The Narrow Base of the New Urbanists By Michael Pyatok Seventh Generation By Richard Milgrom Placemaking as a Critique of New Urbanism By Robert G. Shibley From “Sugar Cookies” to “Gingerbread Men”: Conformity in Suburban Design By […]
Special Issue on Youth and Planning Involving Youth in Planning: The Progressive Challenge By Ann Forsyth Seventh Generation Chester Hartman and Tom Angotti Townview, Texas: A High School Adoption Program By M. Teresa Vázquez-Castillo Teenagers Show Planners How It’s Done: Build Your […]
Selected Feature Urban Life Will Change By Peter Marcuse Planning to Rebuild By Tom Angotti Seventh Generation By : Saskia Sassen, Ariel Dorfman, Noam Chomsky, Eyad el Sarraj, Yale Rabin, Dick Platkin, Michael Moore, Eduardo Galeano Towards a New Community […]
Selected Feature PN 2001 in Rochester: Voices of Change By Ken Reardon Rochester: The Path Less Traveled By William A. Johnson, Jr. Changing the Culture of Planning By Norman Krumholz
Selected Feature Community-based Planning: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric By Jocelyne Chait Getting Transportation Priorities Straight By Lisa Schreibman Privatizing Public Space: Saving NYC’s Parks By Dave Lutz
Selected Feature Queers and Planning By George Cheung and Ann Forsyth Transgendered as Mine Shaft Canaries By Petra L. Doan Deviant History, Defiant Heritage By Gail Dubrow Zoning that Excludes Queers By Gwen Urey
Selected Feature Federal Urban Renewal Not Dead by Tom Angotti Race and Waste: Options for Equity Planning in New York City by Juliana Maantay
Selected Feature Breath of Air in Harlem by Peggy Dye Shedding Light on the Shades of Strategic Planning by Jordi Borja What Planners Don’t Know About Food: Food Planning in New York and Beyond by John Nettleton
Selected Feature Public Space and Crime: The Cultural Meaning of Violence by Herbert Glasauer Strategic Planning and Urban Competition: The Agenda of Multilateral Agencies in Brazil by Fabricio Leal de Oliveira The Role of Technnical/Professional Workers in Progressive Social Change […]
Selected Feature What You Always Knew About Globalization but Were Afraid to Tell: Five Basic Lessons by Kanishka Goonewardena Mexico’s Pioneer Experiences in Participatory Planning by Gustavo Romero Fernöndez Civil Society: A Challenge to Planners by Gerda R. Wekerle
May/June 2000 The Electronic Frontier Selected Feature Information Technologies and Progressive Planning by Ann Forsyth Online for Organizing: The Story of COMM-ORG by Randy Stoeker NKLA: Neighborhood Improvement and Recovery is Not Just for the Experts! by Bill Pitkin The […]
March/April 2000 Election 2000 Selected Feature Election 2000: Is It Time for Urban Policy? Participatory Budgeting In Porto Alegre, Brazil by William W. Goldsmith Proposal for PEO History Project By Ken Reardon
January/February 2000 Self Determination and Planning Selected Feature The Seventh Generation By Eve Baron Self Determination and Planning by Eve Baron Indigenous Planning and Tribal Community Development by Ted Jojola São Paulo Squat by Barbara Lynch
Selected Feature How Smarth Growth Can Save Growth By Tom Angotti Oregon: Where’s the Growth Control? by Kevin Adams Who Benefits From Smart Growth? By Faisal Roble
Selected Feature The Growth Machine Goes to the Inner City By Dwayne Wyatt The Seventh Generation: Alternatives to the Growth Machine By Dick Platkin and Ben Rosenbloom, Guest Editors The Auto Drives the Growth Machine By Aaron Golub Profit Drives […]
Selected Feature Transnationalism not Assimilation By Arturo Sanchez PN 99 At Lowell: Labor and Community Meet By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly Contesting Mythic America: Community-based Citizenship Education for Immigrants By Laura Y. Liu Transnational and Local Communities: How Mexican […]
Column The Seventh Generation by Tom Angotti Articles Organizing A Childcare Union In Philadelphia By Peter Pitegoff Worker Coops By Chitra Somayaji Employee Stock Ownership — ESOPS By Corey Rosen The Uncertain Future Of Worker Ownership: Two Decades Of Lessons […]
Column The Seventh Generation by Marie Kennedy Articles URBAN PLANNING IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY: In the Shadows by June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf RESTRICTING OCCUPANCY, HURTING FAMILIES by Ellen Pader THE INVASION OF AZTLÁN AND STRUGGLES FOR LAND […]
Pedagogy Planning’s Radical Project: What’s the Pedagogy? by Leonie Sandercock Housing Putting Housing on the Unions’ Agenda by Chris Baker, Annica Cooper, Sahyeh Fattahi, Paula Bingham Goldstein, Jimmy Gomez, Daniel Inlender, Jacqueline Leavitt, Erika Licon, and Paula Sirola Post-modernism/Planning The […]
Labor and Community Living wage, Live action Reprinted from The Nation by Robert Pollin Labor and community Not an Easy Marriage by Maryann Leshin Whither Planners Network? Are We Progressive Planners? by Ruth Yabes Promote International Networking and Local Action by […]
Columns and Opinion The Seventh Generation by Tom Angotti Collective Action by Patricia Nolan Feature Advocate for Progressive Planning Education by Cathy Klump Keep Networking by Gwen Urey Support Activists, Question Capitalism by Dick Platkin You Gotta Represent Dispersing Authority […]
Columns and Opinion The Seventh Generation: Special Issue on Feminism, Gender, and Planning by Ann Forsyth Do Equity Planners Care About Health Care ? by Patricia Nolan Feature Women Plan Toronto: Incorporating Gender Issues in Urban Planning by Barbara Loevinger Rahder […]
Column The Seventh Generation by Richard Milgrom Feature It’s Not Easy Being Green: Feminist Thoughts on Planning for Sustainability by Sherilyn MacGregor Sustainability is Not Enough by Peter Marcuse Sustaining Diversity: Participatory Design and Urban Space by Richard Milgrom Principles […]
Columns The Seventh Generation: Regional Planning and Reason by Thomas Angotti Feature NEW YORK CITY: The First Regional Government Still Cries for Planning The Case of Waste Management by John McCrory New York: RACE, CLASS & SPACE: A Historical Comparison […]
Columns The Seventh Generation: Street Life and a Connection to the Land by Tom Angotti Feature Planners Can Plan to Plant by Ellen Kirby Commentary Two Corners of the Same Tent: A Response to Tom Angotti by Timothy Ross Review […]
Column The Seventh Generation: GOP Aims to Shut Out Poor by Rep. Nydia Velazquez Feature Public Housing Tenants Confront Degegulation Strengthening Resident Capacity in New York City by Victor Bach and Sara Hovde Lessons from New Zealand by Jacqueline Leavitt […]
Asphalt Nation How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back by Jane Holtz Kay New York: Random House, 1997.US $32.95 Review by James Miraglia Imagine if 120 or so people died in a horrendous plane […]
by Patricia Nolan In 1993, St. Louis launched its 18-mile regional light rail system, named MetroLink, which has since become a tremendous success. MetroLink’s 31-vehicle fleet transports as many as 100,000 people per day to and from all of the […]
by John Anner “What this fight is really about,” James Morris says suddenly, in the middle of a discussion about transportation policy in Milwaukee, “is a city-versus-suburb thing. What the central city needs and what the suburbs want are two […]
by Lisa Schreibman Federal rules require public involvement in transportation planning. So far, it looks like we have another participation game and the big decisions are still made in a closet. The 1991 amendments to the federal surface transportation program, […]
Eight Myths of Traffic Planning by Roger Baker A growing number of planning experts realize that current trends in transportation are unsustainable. Like an addictive drug, a transportation policy oriented around the private automobile dictates urban policies in a way […]
by Jon Orcutt The transportation system most South Africans face today is a mixture of patched-up, third-rate public transport inherited from apartheid and a chaotic, unregulated minibus-taxi system that is a source of swelling public complaint. But political transformation in […]
The Seventh Generation by Thomas Angotti On Saturday, July 12th of this year, I was performing my daily jogging ritual in Prospect Park, Brooklyn’s great green space, when I came across a biker laid out on the park roadway. She […]
Column The Seventh Generation by Thomas Angotti Feature Transportation Struggles in the Post-Apartheid City by Jon Orcutt Eight Myths of Traffic Planning by Roger Baker Are We There Yet? Is There REAL Public Participation Under ISTEA? by Lisa Schreibman Making […]