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November/December 1997

The Seventh Generation : GOP Aims to Shut Out Poor

by Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-New York City) In 1890, Jacob Riis’ groundbreaking book How the Other Half Lives chronicled the lives of thousands of families living in squalor in New York City. A horrified public cried out for reform, and the […]

November 30, 1997September 6, 2012 November/December 1997

November/December 1997

Public Housing Residents Confront Deregulation Strengthening Resident Capacity in New York City

by Victor Bach and Sara Hovde In New York City, public housing tenants stopped a privatization proposal in an unprecedented mobilization effort. But without continuing vigilance and technical support, public housing tenants will find themselves left out of decisions that […]

November 30, 1997August 30, 2012 November/December 1997

November/December 1997

It’s not the Housing, It’s the People

by Tom Angotti A Response to Timothy Ross It’s not the housing, Mr. Ross, it’s the people. They don’t care what kind of housing poor people live in. They just don’t like them if they’re poor and not white. If […]

November 30, 1997September 6, 2012 November/December 1997

November/December 1997

Public Housing Tenants Confront Deregulation Lessons from New Zealand

by Jacqueline Leavitt In New Zealand, there is no nonprofit third sector between public housing and the market. Tenants are organizing to keep rents down, limit privatization and create new “third-stream” alternatives. The Labour Party: The Unlikely Handmaiden In 1984, […]

November 30, 1997August 30, 2012 November/December 1997

November/December 1997

It’s Housing, Not Public Housing

By Timothy Ross Progressives face a dilemma in thinking about public housing. Many progressives support public housing because it helps low income people who are otherwise disadvantaged in a capitalist economy. Indeed, over a million people live in public housing […]

November 30, 1997August 30, 2012 November/December 1997

November/December 1997 Progressive Planning Magazine back issues

November/December 1997 Public Housing

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 […]

November 30, 1997September 6, 2012 November/December 1997, Progressive Planning Magazine back issues

September/October 1997

Review : Asphalt Nation

How the automobile took over America and how we can take it back.

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 […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

East St. Louis Puts Transportation Planners On the Right Track

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 […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

Making Tracks for Justice The Fight for Fair Transportation and Economic Development in Milwaukee

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 […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

Are We There Yet? Is There REAL Public Participation Under ISTEA?

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, […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

Eight Myths of Traffic Planning

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 […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

Transportation Struggles in the Post-Apartheid City

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 […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

The Seventh Generation

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 […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

Progressive Planning Magazine back issues September/October 1997

September/October 1997 : Transportation Planning

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 […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 Progressive Planning Magazine back issues, September/October 1997

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