Healing Abandonment: When Houses Have No People and People Have No Houses, Use it or Lose it
by Shiri Pasternak and David Wachsmuth In Detroit, which is choking on tens of thousands of abandoned properties, the housing abandonment..
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Fall 2008 Planning for Diversity in Canada
Planning for Diversity in Canada Planning for Diversity in Canada: From Rhetoric to Action by Amy Siciliano and Norma Rantisi An..
Citizen Hall: Reclaiming City Hall for the People
by Ryan Hayes How can we, as residents of Toronto, transform Toronto City Hall—the city bureaucracy’s democratic core—into a..
Indigeneity: A Cornerstone of Diversity Planning in Canadian Cities
by Ryan Walker Understanding and realizing the urban aspirations of Canada’s Aboriginal (Indigenous) peoples (i.e., First Nations, Métis..
An Alternative Tale of the City: Toronto and the Alternative Planning Group
by Uzma Shakir A trip on Toronto Transit (known locally as the T.T.C.) draws a pretty picture of the city of Toronto and the image of..
Summer 2008 Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space
Feature Articles An Attack on Iran Would Be a Global Disaster: Why Urban Planners Once Again Need to Reject Unprovoked War by Michael..
Playing Out Democracy in MacArthur Park: Spatial Struggles in the Everyday Use of Public Space
By Kelly Main MacArthur Park is one of downtown Los Angeles’ largest and most historic public spaces. Located just a few miles west of..
Human Rights Activists and the Struggle for Urban Territories in Buenos Aires
By Susana Kaiser Since their irruption into the public sphere in 1977 in the midst of a military dictatorship, the Mothers of the Plaza de..
Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space
By Clara Irazábal Public spaces are privileged sites for the enactment and contestation of various stances on democracy and citizenship in..
An Attack on Iran Would Be a Global Disaster: Why Urban Planners Once Again Need to Reject Unprovoked War
By Michael Dudley As the United States was preparing for its military assault on Iraq in 2003, Planners Network issued a statement,..
