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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 […]
By Chris Tilly and Marie Kennedy In January of 1994, the ski-masked Maya rebels of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) rocked Mexico by rising up in arms in Mexico ‘s southernmost state, Chiapas. Twelve years later, the Zapatista movement is still at work amidst a long-standing but uneasy truce, and it continues to […]
By Tom Angotti Racism. If there is one thing that explains the post-Katrina catastrophe, it’s race. We all know about the gross incompetence and insensitivity of FEMA and state and local government. We all know that the federal government has failed to allocate sufficient resources for housing, cleanup and recovery. We all know about the […]
By john a. powell, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Daniel Newhart and Eric Stiens “You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals….so many of these people…are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold.” — Wolf Blitzer on […]
FEATURES Politics With Poetry: The Quest for a Legitimate Architecture of Housing Michael Pyatok 7th Generation Connie Chung and Ann Forsyth Community Engagement Ron Shiffman Diversity in Practice Kathy Dorgan Origins of Community Design Henry Sanoff Equity [or Not] by Design Roberta M. Feldman Engaging Communities, Enriching Design Education Cheryl Doble & Peter Aeschbacher Asian […]
By Henry Sanoff Community design stands for an alternative style of practice, based on the idea that professional technical knowledge is often inadequate in the resolution of social problems. It is an umbrella term covering community planning, community architecture, social architecture, community development and community participation, all of which emphasize the involvement of local people […]
By Kathy Dorgan Each community design center (CDC) has a unique and winning personality. The character of these participatory public interest professional design practices are shaped by the communities they serve, their funders and, perhaps most importantly, their leadership. Centers vary widely in their organizational structure, the constituencies served, the type of projects undertaken and […]
By Ron Shiffman Though the practice of community design has a history that includes over four decades of accomplishments, its contribution to the practice of architecture and its role in the rebuilding of communities, neighborhoods and cities is still often misunderstood and misinterpreted. Community design, when practiced genuinely, goes far beyond the planning, design and […]
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