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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 ‘s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI) began in 2001 with the goal of demolishing some 14,000 […]
FEATURES Resource Rights and Wrongs Nikhil Aziz 7th Generation – Israel’s War for Water Marie Kennedy Water is Life! Cochabamba, Bolivia against Privatization Don Leonard Urban Water Management in Mexico David Barkin A Bottom-Up Planning Model for a Safe and Accessible Water Supply in Malawi K. Tyler Miller Water Planning for the Future Jonathan Leavitt […]
By Don Leonard Water is life! This was the battle cry for a coalition of labor unions, activists, cocaleros(coca producers), students, professionals, small farmers and community groups that gathered in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia in January of 2000. They organized to take back control of the water resources that had been sold to a subsidiary […]
By Marie Kennedy In South Africa, residents of Soweto are smashing water meters and taking Johannesburg Water to court in protest against prepayment meters, which they claim are unconstitutional (the South African constitution guarantees water as a human right). In Michigan, activists striving to prevent bottling companies from further water takings are seeking legislative oversight […]
By Nikhil Aziz Water and other natural resources are at the center of conflicts worldwide, in large part due to their unequal distribution. These conflicts are both paradigmatic and traditional, involving a fundamental difference over whether water is a human right or a marketable commodity. For rural small producers from the Middle East to Latin […]
FEATURES America’s “Dietary Divide” Peter Zelchenko 7th Generation – Chicago 2006: From City Beautiful to Sustainable? Kara Heffernan Why The Midwest Needs Local and Organic Food Lynn Peemoeller Touring Sustainable Chicago Sarah Morton Where Are Poor People to Live? Transforming Public Housing Communities Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith and Patricia Wright Urban Planning as a […]
By Meredith Phillips The Academy of Urban Planning in Brooklyn taps into the curiosity of high school students about their environment, teaches skills needed for modern careers, and puts the students on a path aimed towards higher education. As a program manager at this new school, I have seen how students are learning how to use […]
By Peter Zelchenko I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. –Langston Hughes, “I, Too, Sing America ” Lately grassroots and higher-level activity in food access planning has been growing. Americans aren’t leading healthy lives because they are […]
FEATURES Towards a Transformative View of Race john a.powell, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Daniel Newhart & Eric Stiens 7th Generation Tom Angotti And the Winner in the New Orleans Mayoral Race Is… Chester Hartman Katrina’s Race and Class Effects Were Planned Gregory D.Squires From Here to Autonomy Chris Tilly & Marie Kennedy SPECIAL SECTION ON GENDER […]
By María Teresa Vázquez-Castillo Femicide is a word whose definition women in Ciudad Juárez can explain very well. They learned and appropriated the word in the process of trying to make sense of the more than 400 murders of women that have taken place in this Mexican border city since 1993. In the last thirteen […]
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