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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 diversity we wish to communicate to the world. Hijabclad young women going with their Sikh and Chinese friends to Danforth Station for the Greek food festival and then perhaps […]
Feature Articles An Attack on Iran Would Be a Global Disaster: Why Urban Planners Once Again Need to Reject Unprovoked War by Michael Dudley Democratizing Tourism, Illuminating Power: A People’s Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng. Progressive Planning and Organizing: Filmmaker-Organizer Partnerships by Allison Lirish Dean Building a Movement Against Gentrification […]
By Kelly Main MacArthur Park is one of downtown Los Angeles’ largest and most historic public spaces. Located just a few miles west of City Hall and the corporate centers on Bunker Hill, the neighborhood in which the park is located is the poorest in Southern California and the densest west of Manhattan. The park […]
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 Mayo (mothers of desaparecidos) pioneered the redefinition of the word public, which is at the core of the struggle for human rights in Argentina. By turning motherhood into a public activity, […]
By Clara Irazábal Public spaces are privileged sites for the enactment and contestation of various stances on democracy and citizenship in the public sphere. Indeed, the public sphere, as the intangible realm for the expression, reproduction and recreation of a society’s culture and polity, usually encompasses divergent political visions and nurtures acute social confrontations that get […]
By Michael Dudley As the United States was preparing for its military assault on Iraq in 2003, Planners Network issued a statement, “Urban Planners Oppose the War in Iraq” (Reprinted in PN 155). Among the considerations in this statement were concerns over the threat of destruction to physical infrastructure—especially because Iraq is the cradle of […]
Feature Articles Gaza and the Green Zone: Urban Apartheid and Occupied Territories by Tom Angotti State Support for Social Production of Housing? Mexico’s New Housing Law Exposes Planning Contradictions and Challenges by Jill Wigle and Lorena Zárate A Housing Tour in South Africa by Beth Maclin Gender and Urban Planning: Time for Another Look by […]
By Luis Aponte-Parés Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world today. Its impact on the environment, national economies, technology, social mores, health, culture and an array of other areas is very large and difficult to capture. In the academic world, the study of tourism and leisure has become a major focus of […]
By Clara Irazábal and Macarena Gómez-Barris This article is excerpted with permission from Clara Irazábal and Macarena Gómez-Barris. “Bounded Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption, and Traditions at Plaza Mexico.” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 5 (3), 2007: 186-213. Conceived and owned by Korean investors, the shopping mall Plaza Mexico in Southern California embodies a unique case of invention […]
By Regula Modlich Almost fifty years ago, Jane Jacobs shook the planning establishment with her bookThe Death and Life of Great American Cities. While neither explicitly feminist nor oriented to women, Jacobs’ perspectives were rooted in the life experiences, sensitivities and issues of women. So were her solutions. The second wave of feminism started forty […]
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