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By Caron Atlas What are the tough questions that public officials—mayors, planning commissioners and economic development experts—and private developers should address to incorporate issues of cultural planning in community development programs/projects? And what are the questions artists and arts organizations need to consider related to their roles in development? I work at the intersection of […]
By Jacqueline Leavitt We believe in a grassroots movement that puts into question the essential relationships on which the system is based. The focal point of these cultural campaigns is the evolution of political conviction into artistic actions and vice versa. We will present cultural performances as political actions because everyone is artist and activist […]
By Ann Markusen Artists have been under-appreciated as participants in community and neighborhood development in cities around the world. On the one hand, they have been lumped into a “creative class” whose hedonistic preferences for residing in lively, diverse cities are credited with generating economic growth. On the other hand, artists are sometimes accused of […]
FEATURES Participatory Housing Cooperatives: An Argentinean Experiment Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly 7th Generation Ann Forsyth Vietnam Going Global without a Plan: Welcome to the Capitalist World Tom Angotti Good Design Alone Can’t Change Society Kimberly Libman, Lauren Tenney and Susan Saegert Zoning for Ethnic Cleansing Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Neoliberal Ideas and Social […]
By Jason Hackworth A Return to the Halcyon Days or Just Another Empty Promise? On April 29, 2005, officials from Ontario and the Canadian federal government announced what was deemed by one senior provincial official as “the largest affordable housing deal in Canadian history.” The roughly C$600 million partnership between the federal and provincial government […]
By Kym Liebman, Lauren Tenney and Susan Saegert In 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered, the nation’s cities and campuses were torn by riots and all the conventional approaches to cities were being questioned. Every modern approach to social reform, planning and architecture was under scrutiny. The door was open for experimentation and new approaches. […]
By Tom Angotti In the Jan/Feb 1998 issue of the Planners Network newsletter (the forerunner ofProgressive Planning Magazine ), I wrote, “If you love livable cities, hurry up to Hanoi ” because new development “threatens the city’s greatest asset, its street life.” Unfortunately, it’s now too late. I recently spent three weeks in Hanoi studying the […]
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly In the shadow of the sparkling skyscrapers of Buenos Aires ‘s newly redeveloped Puerto Madero waterfront area, we picked our way along the muddy paths of a villa miseria, the Argentinean word for a squatter settlement. The houses ranged from small, spartan brick boxes with cement floors to subhuman hovels with […]
FEATURES Fighting for Balanced Transportation in the Motor City by Joe Grengs 7th Generation by Tom Angotti Sprawl and Justice by Thad Williamson Strategies to End Domestic Violence and Promote Community Sustainability by Jessica Dexter Community Development as Improvised Performance by Esther Farmer Planning Open Space:The World Social Forum and Neoliberalism by Josh Lerner Bush […]
By Kyle D. Brown and Todd Jennings Excerpted with minor revisions from Brown, K.D. and T. J. Jennings. Social Consciousness in Landscape Architecture Education: Toward a Conceptual Framework. Landscape Journal. Volume 22, No. 2. Copyright 2003. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. The practice of landscape architecture is diverse, and the implications […]
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