George W. Bush and the Cities: The Damage Done and the Struggle Ahead
By Peter Dreier On April 29, 2002, the tenth anniversary of the civil unrest, George W. Bush came to Los Angeles to speak at a..
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The Organization of Progressive Planning2004
Fall 2004 Olympics
New York City’s Olympic Bid -Why? Peter Marcuse Integrating Visions and Ethics: A Feat of Olympian Proportions Richard Milgrom 2004..
Fool’s Gold: Some Observations of Salt Lake City’s 2002 Winter Olympic Games
By Stephen Goldsmith Honorable men envisioned a Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 1960, almost forty years before the Games were..
Golden Scam: Fantasy and Reality in the Olympics
By Christopher A. Shaw The artificial frenzy of the Athens Summer Olympics are now safely behind us and the media have returned to covering..
New York City’s Olympic Bid—Why?
By Peter Marcuse Cities have pursued hosting the Olympic Games out of a variety of motivations, often more than one. Absent from these..
Summer 2004 Conference
Building Bridges Eve Baron Sharing Indigenous Planning Ted Jojola Pioneers of Advocacy Planning Columbia’s Manhattanville Expansion..
How Planners Can Change Public Policy through Social Action
By Ayse Yonder Three long-time activist planners, during one of the main plenary sessions at the Planners Network 2004 Conference, talked..
Activist Planning and the Neoliberal City: The Case of Planning Action
By Deborah Cowen A lot has been written about urban neoliberalism but much less about activist responses to it. Planning Action is a group..
From Disinvestment (Abandonment) to Reinvestment (Gentrification): Homefront’s Abandonment Analysis Thirty Years Later
By Ann Meyerson and Tony Schuman In March 1974, 200 housing and community activists attended a conference in New York City to confront the..
Pioneers of Advocacy Planning
The Planners Network 2004 Conference recognized the important role played by five people who for four decades have made outstanding..
