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..
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The Organization of Progressive Planning2005
Fall 2005 Arts, Culture and Community
FEATURES Artists as Community Developers Ann Markusen 7th Generation Peter Marcuse Public Art and Wild Rice Karl Lorenz Art and the..
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..
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...
Artists as Community Developers
By Ann Markusen Artists have been under-appreciated as participants in community and neighborhood development in cities around the world...
Summer 2005
FEATURES Participatory Housing Cooperatives: An Argentinean Experiment Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly 7th Generation Ann Forsyth Vietnam..
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..
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..
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,..
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..
