Publications and Announcements

Autonoma Conference, Athens, Greece, July 1-2, 2016

In July 2016 [AUTONOMA] <http://www.autonoma.gr/> is bringing together in Athens, renowned scholars and practitioners from the fields of Architecture, Geography, Design, and Environmental Studies, in an effort to identify Urban Autonomy as a distinct area of research and explore its…

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Job ads – Associate & Senior Planner, City of Dana, California

Associate Planner City of Dana Point Salary: $5,563 – $7,232 monthly. Plus Benefits The City of Dana Point is seeking a top-notch professional to fill its vacant planner position in the Community Development Department. The Associate Planner is the full…

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Job Ad – Planner III, City and County of San Francisco

  5291 Planner III Salary $43.08 – $52.35/hour; $7,466.00 – $9,074.00/month; $89,596.00 – $108,888.00/year  Position Description Under direction, the Planner III performs difficult and complex planning work. The essential functions of this job include, but are not limited, to: Managing…

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Job ad: Planning Manager, City of Dana Point, California

Planning Manager City of Dana Point Salary: $116,832 – $157,716 annually. Plus Benefits The City of Dana Point Community Development Department is seeking an experience, self-motivated, inspirational Planning Manager to join a dynamic and committed team. The Planning Manager reports…

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Job Posting – 5278 Planner II – San Francisco Planning Department

5278 Planner II – San Francisco Planning Department Salary $36.28 – $44.09/hour; $6,288.00 – $7,642.00/month; $75,452.00 – $91,702.00/year Application Deadline: 2/16/16 @ 5:00 p.m. Position Description Under general supervision, performs difficult city planning work and participates in all phases of…

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Update from PN-NYC Chapter: Memorial for Jackie Leavitt

Dear Progressive Planners and Friends of Jackie Leavitt: As you may already know, Jackie Leavitt, most recently Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA and friends with many people in planning in both the east and west coasts, passed away on…

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2nd International Symposium – New Metropolitan Perspectives, Italy, May 18-20, 2016

Conference: 2nd International Symposium – New Metropolitan Perspectives Where: Reggio Calabria, Italy When: 2016, 18-20 May website: http://www.isth2020.org/ Call for Papers: http://media.wix.com/ugd/2b9527_27bb4d139cfb44fbacf6313bab6eb157.pdf Abstract: The second edition of the “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES” International Symposium will be specifically dedicated to the main topic: “Strategic planning,…

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Planner II – Urban Design (Temporary Exempt), San Francisco Planning Dept

Planner II – Urban Designer Salary: $36.28 – $44.09/hour; $6,288.00 – $7,642.00/month; $75,452.00 – $91,702.00/year Job Type – Temporary Exempt Application deadline: 1/4/2016 5:00:00 PM Appointment Type Temporary Exempt (TEX), Full-Time appointment not to exceed three (3) years. This position…

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Call for Article Submissions, Progressive Planning Magazine

Call for Article Submissions, Progressive Planning Magazine PNers! Want to share a progressive planning story relating to affordable housing, sustainable transport, social justice-focused urban design, issues of accessibility in the city, refugees, food security, public space, exclusionary/inclusionary zoning, equity planning,…

City and County of San Francisco – Transportation Policy Planner

5278 Planner II – Transportation Policy Planner Salary: $36.28 – $44.09/hour; $6,288.00 – $7,642.00/month; $75,452.00 – $91,702.00/year Application deadline: 11/12/15 Appointment Type: Permanent Exempt (PEX), Full-Time appointment not to exceed three (3) years. This position is exempt from the Civil…

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Participatory Budgeting Project Coordinator, Seattle

SALARY: $32.97 – $38.38 Hourly LOCATION: Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Ave., Seattle, Washington JOB TYPE: Temporary – Non-Benefit Eligible SHIFT: Day DEPARTMENT: Department of Neighborhoods BARGAINING UNIT: PTE, Local 17 – Professionals CLOSING DATE 10/27/15 04:00 PM Pacific Time POSITION…

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Civicspark Internships, California

CivicSpark, a Governor’s Initiative AmeriCorps program dedicated to building capacity for local governments to address climate change, is now recruiting members for the 2015-16 service year. Through CivicSpark, recent college graduates gain valuable work experience while acquiring technical skill-sets, building…

PN sponsored session at Assoc. of American Geographers Meeting

If you are attending the Association of American Geographers meeting in Chicago (www.aag.org), April 21 to April 25, check out the following panel session that includes Planners Network members, organized by PN Steering Committee member Alex Schafran: Panel Session: 1636…

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City and County of San Francisco, California – Three Positions, including Senior Community Development Specialist

 Senior Community Development Specialist II Salary: $44.76 – $54.40/hour; $7,759.00 – $9,429.00/month; $93,106.00 – $113,152.00/year POSITION DESCRIPTION: The San Francisco Planning Department has openings for two 9775 Senior Community Development Specialist II positions to work on issues of neighborhood stabilization,…

Community Development Society 2015 Conference

CDS 2015 Conference July 19-22, 2015 Hilton Lexington Downtown Hotel Lexington, Kentucky, USA Conference Theme: Creativity and Culture: Community Development Approaches for Strengthening Health, Environment, Economic Vibrancy, Social Justice and Democracy Call for Abstracts – Deadline Extended Deadline for submissions: …

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Job Ad – Planning Assoc., Alta PLanning & Design in LA

* Position Title:  Planning Associate * Employer’s Name: Alta Planning + Design * Job Location (City, State):  Los Angeles, CA * Job description: An understanding and knowledge of Alta, its culture and services, the ability to collaborate across discipline boundaries…

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Job Ad – Asst. or Assoc. Prof in Planning at UMass-Boston

Assistant or Associate Professor in Urban Planning University of Massachusetts Boston The School for the Environment (SFE) at the University of Massachusetts Boston seeks an outstanding academic at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in Urban Systems and Environmental…

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PN Roundtable Session at ACSP Conference in Philly- Don’t Miss It!

PLANNERS NETWORK (1975 – ?): ADVOCACY PLANNING AND BEYOND Saturday, November 1, 9:45am – 10:45am  (4377/552) Co-Organizers:  CLAVEL, Pierre [Cornell University] pc29@cornell.edu & JOJOLA, Ted [University of New Mexico] tjojola@unm.edu Moderator:  ANGOTTI, Thomas [Hunter College] tangotti@hunter.cuny.edu Panel Participants: THOMPSON, J. Phillip [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] jt71@mit.edu…

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Planners Network Conference 2014

The 2014 Planners Network Conference, Planning at the Borders, will take place June 5-7 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Abstracts proposing pre-organized sessions, workshops, individual presentations, posters, or social documentation should be submitted before April 10, 2014 at: pnconference2014@gmail.com. Preference will be…

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Fall 2013: Community and Labor: Synergies, Frictions, and Innovations

The Seventh Generation Can labor and community learn to dance together? by Marie Kennedy & Chris Tilly General Building Power: The Los Angeles Black Worker Center Turns Excluded Workers into Forces for Change by Yelizavetta Kofman Risk-Taking and Coalition Politics: Lessons…

From and Toward a Queer Urbanism

By Kian Goh “The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationships to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire.” —David Harvey, “The Right to the City”…

Categories: Spring 2011

Transit-Oriented Development and Communities of Color: A Field Report

By Gen Fujioka Transit-oriented development (TOD) has become a leading policy prescription for reversing America’s sprawling path of growth. The Obama administration, through its Sustainable Communities Initiative, state and local agencies and progressive think-tanks all emphasize TOD as a means…

Categories: Winter 2011

Just Transportation Planning: Lessons from California

By Richard A. Marcantonio Transportation has long been at the heart of our   nation’s civil rights struggle. The struggle against Jim Crow transportation was more than half a century old when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to…

Categories: Winter 2011

The Heresies in HUD’s Public Housing Policy

By Peter Marcuse “I used to joke with my colleagues about committing what I called ‘public housing heresy,’ because people would always say, ‘But, we’re public housing and we’re different.’ And I said, ‘It’s really the same.’ We’re public housing,…

Categories: Winter 2011

The Forgotten Struggle of the Negev Bedouin

By Salena Tramel Down south in Israel’s Negev Desert, the sounds of jets fill wide-open spaces. At least 80 percent of the land is used for military training purposes, including developing and testing weapons. The Negev also contains the largest…

Categories: Fall 2010

Mexico City Creates Charter for the Right to the City

By Jill Wigle and Lorena Zárate A new collective tool for social mobilization and democratic planning has been established in Mexico City. On July 13, 2010 Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of the Federal District of Mexico signed the Mexico City Charter for…

Categories: Summer 2010

The Invisible Cyclists of Los Angeles

By Omari Fuller and Edgar Beltran Night has fallen and you’re driving through a gritty urban center when you approach an intersection. Just as you turn right through the crosswalk a dark figure materializes before you. You slam on the…

Categories: Summer 2010

Beyond Networking, Left Alternatives

By Tom Angotti Shortly after the Towards a Just Metropolis conference in the Bay Area, the U.S. Social Forum convened in Detroit. Between June 22 and 26 some 20,000 people got together there, nearly doubling the attendance at the first forum in…

Categories: Summer 2010

Los Angeles Throws its General Plan Overboard as the Ship Goes Down

By Richard Platkin The Los Angeles Times (March 1 and March 14, 2010), Southern California’s rapidly shrinking, former newspaper of record, repeatedly complains that Los Angeles’s elected officials, primarily Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the fifteen members of the Los Angeles City Council, do not…

Categories: Spring 2010

Smart Decline and Planning Ideology

By Aaron McKeon Last September, Time began a year of coverage 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…

Categories: Spring 2010

Two World Urban Forums, Two Worlds Apart

By Peter 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 in two different worlds, but they tolerated each other; the contrasts and similarities…

Categories: Spring 2010

Arizona Immigration Law

Date Published: 5/22/2010 Planners Network calls on planners to resist the odious Arizona Immigration Law As progressive planners who are committed to opposing social injustice and discrimination, we strongly condemn the Arizona immigration law (SB 1070). The law, which requires…

Categories: Spring 2010, Statements

Feeding Dependency, Starving Democracy…Still

By Nikhil Aziz (A shorter version of this article was published by CommonDreams.org on March 16, 2010.) Some of the advice for how Haiti ought to rebuild after the earthquake sounds hauntingly familiar, echoing the same bad development advice that Haiti has received…

Categories: Spring 2010

Picture the Homeless Chases Chase

By Lynn Lewis  Picture the Homeless is a decade-old grass roots membership organization of homeless New Yorkers,  and a member of the coordinating committee of the New York City Right to the City Alliance.  We have targeted the powerful Chase…

Categories: Winter 2010

SEVENTH GENERATION OPINION: Mobilizing Hope and Obama

By Tom Angotti Many progressive planners continue to be hopeful that the Obama administration will usher in real change that we can believe in. But unless we ratchet up the organizing the prospects for change are not good. Obama can’t…

Categories: Fall 2009

Urban Prospects in the Age of Obama

By Dick Platkin American cities are entering a perfect storm of deepening urban crises despite—and in some cases because of—the hopes that many community activists hold for the Obama administration. Activists fully expect the new administration to effectively address a…

Categories: Summer 2009

Right to the City Builds Alliance, Confronts Mayors

By Jacqueline Leavitt When the U.S. Conference of Mayors arrived in Providence, Rhode Island, this June, it faced an unexpected list of issues and demands from a national organization, the U.S. Right to the City (RTTC) Alliance. RTTC, which promotes…

Categories: Summer 2009

Israel’s Ongoing War Against the Palestinians of Gaza

By Marie Kennedy Gaza Under Siege As I drove northeast from Jabalia last March, all I could see in every direction was swaths of upturned concrete and twisted metal, what used to be factories and dairies in the industrial heartland of…

Categories: Summer 2009

Master Plan for Havana: An Encounter with Julio César Pérez Hernández

By Regula Modlich “Havana Cuba: A New Master Plan” reads the flier for Julio César Pérez Hernández’ lecture in Toronto, Canada. What progressive planner wouldn’t do a double take? Havana, the “David” nation of approximately 2.2 million residents that fought, won and still struggles to build an alternative…

Categories: Spring 2009

Integration Exhaustion, Race Fatigue and the American Dream

By Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires When the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was being debated, Senator Walter Mondale famously stated that “the reach of the proposed law was to replace the ghettos with truly integrated and balanced living patterns.” But the nation has had a long,…

Categories: Spring 2009

The Apartheid Bubble in the Desert

By Tom Angotti Dubai, United Arab Emirates Part Two in a series on urban apartheids. Las Vegas, Walt Disney World and Miami rolled into one and then jacked up on steroids. That’s Dubai, the maximum enclave and theme park of global capitalism. Its monumental malls, skyscrapers and millionaire condos loudly announce this brash newcomer to the global…

Categories: Spring 2009