Twenty-First Century Urban Renewal in Philadelphia: The Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and its Critics Domenic Vitiello 7th Generation – Planning the “Next Great American City:” Public Policy and Social Justice in Philadelphia and Camden Domenic Vitiello Keeping the Community in Community […]
Progressive Innovation in the 1970s: Madison, Wisconsin, and the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies
By Jonathan Thompson Progressive cities in the United States and elsewhere have been most commonly understood as dealing with neighborhood mobilization, citizen empowerment and other forms of grassroots political involvement. Using the language of “the grassroots” in the U.S. and […]
Papers from the “Progressive Cities and Neighborhood Planning” Collection at Cornell: A Collection and a Class
By Pierre Clavel This collection of articles from Cornell students were stimulated by resources in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC), Cornell University Library. In 2005, the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell offered a short […]
Keeping the Community in Community Gardening: Aqui Estamos y no nos Vamos
By Michael Nairn On June 14, 2006, the New York Times ran an article entitled “Antidevelopment Protesters Are Arrested at Farm Site in Los Angeles.” Featuring the arrest of actress, Daryl Hannah, the article describes the eviction of 350 families, “mostly Latino […]
Twenty-First Century Urban Renewal in Philadelphia : The Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and its Critics
By Domenic Vitiello Author note: This article was initiated in collaboration with Rosemary Cubas. It is dedicated to her memory. Philadelphia is home to one of the most ambitious urban renewal programs in the United States . Mayor John Street […]