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By Tom Angotti City planning and military strategy are indistinguishable in the occupied territories of Palestine and Iraq, where together they rob Palestinians and Iraqis of basic human rights and freedoms. Yet city planners in the United States, the nation that provides financial and military support for this ugly urban apartheid, are mostly silent about […]
Contextualizing Radical Planning: The 1970s Chicano Takeover in Crystal City, Texas by Jonathan Thompson Supporting Resident-Led Revitalization in Librino, Italy by Kenneth Reardon, Filippo Gravagno, and Laura Saija Accommodating Social Diversity in the Gentrified City: Making Space for Families by Mia Hunt Rendering the Invisible Visible: Cultural Architecture and Predatory Planning in Atlanta?s Sweet Auburn […]
By Beth Maclin At the entrance to the squatter camp sits a bright green chemical toilet, accented with a gray top and door. A narrow lane winds past it to a collapsing building where three young men lean against two pay phone booths with no phones. The door and windows are gone, and the tin […]
By Clara Irazábal and John Foley The December 2007 referendum proposing constitutional reforms in Venezuela, discussed in the Fall 2007 issue of Progressive Planning Magazine, was defeated by less than 2 percent of the vote. Some of these reforms would have strengthened grassroots power and the role of neighborhood-based communal councils. The effect of this defeat […]
Note: With this profile of Jacqueline Leavitt, Progressive Planning Magazine starts what will be an ongoing series examining the work of progressive planners. Jacqueline Leavitt, a long-term Planners Network member, is professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 1999, she has also been director of the UCLA Community Scholars Program, co-sponsored […]
Por Alejandro Rofman Es bien conocida la trayectoria de la Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo en la Argentina. Actualicemos, brevemente, su historia. A mediados del año 1977–hace una década–en plena Dictadura Militar en la Argentina, un grupo de madres de jóvenes desaparecidos por los represores de dicha Dictadura, comenzaron a reclamar de viva voz […]
By Alejandro Rofman In 1977, in the midst of Argentina’s military dictatorship, a group of mothers of young people who were disappeared by the military began to raise their voices, demanding to know the whereabouts of their children and to reintegrate them into society. The children were political and social militants captured by the armed […]
By Jonathan Thompson In 1970, radical Chicano activists swept into office in Crystal City, Texas, taking control of almost all of the institutions of local government in the small South Texas town. Part of a sophisticated political project by Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) activists, including José Angel Gutiérrez and María Luz Gutiérrez, the Crystal City […]
Security and Planning After 9-11 by Amy Siciliano and Norma Rantisi Networked Security in the City: A Call to Action for Planners by Matt Hidek Civic Duty: From Neighborhood Watch to ‘USAOnWatch’ by Marilena Liguori Israel’s Wall in Palestine: Control, not Security by Gary Fields From Fences to Walls on the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Joseph […]
By Peter Marcuse The U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta this July was a major success. There were some 10,000 people in attendance, 951 workshops and four plenaries, along with lots of culture, tents, networking and solidarity. It was amazingly grassroots. Almost everything was bilingual and a range of groups were represented; there were many Hispanic […]
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