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 […]
A Cultural Policy for Montreal : Arts or the Neoliberal Agenda?
By Norma M. Rantisi and M. Jason Blackman The City of Montreal recently drafted its first formal cultural policy. While the policy seeks to link culture with economic development, it uncritically embraces the role of business in the arts and […]
Culture and Community Development: Tough Questions, Creative Answers
By Caron Atlas What are the tough questions that public officials—mayors, planning commissioners and economic development experts—and private developers should address to incorporate issues of cultural planning in community development programs/projects? And what are the questions artists and arts organizations […]
Art and the Politics of Public Housing
By Jacqueline Leavitt We believe in a grassroots movement that puts into question the essential relationships on which the system is based. The focal point of these cultural campaigns is the evolution of political conviction into artistic actions and vice […]
Artists as Community Developers
By Ann Markusen Artists have been under-appreciated as participants in community and neighborhood development in cities around the world. On the one hand, they have been lumped into a “creative class” whose hedonistic preferences for residing in lively, diverse cities […]
Summer 2005
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 […]
Neoliberal Ideas and Social Housing Realities in Ontario
By Jason Hackworth A Return to the Halcyon Days or Just Another Empty Promise? On April 29, 2005, officials from Ontario and the Canadian federal government announced what was deemed by one senior provincial official as “the largest affordable housing […]
Good Design Alone Can’t Change Society: Marcus Garvey Village (Brownsville, Brooklyn) after Thirty Years
By Kym Liebman, Lauren Tenney and Susan Saegert In 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered, the nation’s cities and campuses were torn by riots and all the conventional approaches to cities were being questioned. Every modern approach to social reform, […]
Vietnam Going Global without a Plan: Welcome to the Capitalist World
By Tom Angotti In the Jan/Feb 1998 issue of the Planners Network newsletter (the forerunner ofProgressive Planning Magazine ), I wrote, “If you love livable cities, hurry up to Hanoi ” because new development “threatens the city’s greatest asset, its street […]
Participatory Housing Cooperatives: An Argentinean Experiment
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly In the shadow of the sparkling skyscrapers of Buenos Aires ‘s newly redeveloped Puerto Madero waterfront area, we picked our way along the muddy paths of a villa miseria, the Argentinean word for a squatter settlement. […]
Spring 2005
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 […]
Collective Consciousness in Landscape Architecture: Embracing a Social Justice Orientation to Professional Responsibility
By Kyle D. Brown and Todd Jennings Excerpted with minor revisions from Brown, K.D. and T. J. Jennings. Social Consciousness in Landscape Architecture Education: Toward a Conceptual Framework. Landscape Journal. Volume 22, No. 2. Copyright 2003. Reprinted by permission of […]
Bush to Cities: “Drop Dead”
By Gregory D. Squires and Charis E. Kubrin The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) has generated trillions of dollars for urban and rural neighborhoods that had traditionally been redlined by financial institutions. But the Bush administration, with the help of […]
Fighting for Balanced Transportation in the Motor City
By Joe Grengs No other governmental program comes close to influencing the divided geographic patterns of our metropolitan regions like that of federal transportation. Yet most citizens would be hard-pressed to name who decides how and where transportation dollars are […]
Winter 2005
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 […]
Canadian Perspectives on the US Election
By R. Alan Walks “Morons Elect One of Their Own” was one of the more provocative headlines offered in the wake of the recent US election by commentators here in the Great White North. The phrase is in reference to […]
Electoral Politics by Itself Doesn’t Work for the Left
By Frances Fox Piven A good many liberals and progressives are shocked at George Bush’s victory. Republican gains in the Senate and House only make it worse. It is not that we were unaware of the Republican advantages. We knew […]
Where Do We Go from Here?
y Gus Newport Following the recent presidential election, many concerned and free-thinking Americans began to wonder, “Where do we go from here?” We soon recovered and recognized that G.W. was inheriting a mess which he himself created. As we wondered […]