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 […]
Household Information Strategies and Community Responses
by Gwen Urey For progressive planners, the “digital divide” should be thought of as a “digital wedge.” Technology-based strategies to improve the flow of information at the local level may have perverse effects if we don’t really understand the needs […]
The “Digital Divide” and the Persistence of Urban Poverty
by Blanca Gordo In the last six months, the “digital divide” has attracted a lot of public attention from corporate leaders, politicians, and scholars. The growing interest is in part a response to the release of the Department of Commerce’s […]
NKLA: Neighborhood Improvement and Recovery is Not Just for the Experts!
by Bill Pitkin Within planning, the computer has long been associated with images of the rational, technocratic planner who plugs data into a model that magically analyzes the information and proposes optimal solutions. Planners within a ‘progressive planning’ tradition tend […]
Online for Organizing: The Story of COMM-ORG
by Randy Stoeker In 1994 Wendy Plotkin, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, started an e-mail discussion list on the history of community organizing. She had lined up a nice set of papers to present on-line. But while […]
Information Technologies and Progressive Planning
by Ann Forsyth For two centuries technological changes in production, transportation, and communications have been reshaping cities and regions; and for around a century people recognizable as planners have been trying to manage those changes. We are currently in the […]