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By Gregory D. Squires and Charis E. Kubrin The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) has generated trillions of dollars for urban and rural neighborhoods that had traditionally been redlined by financial institutions. But the Bush administration, with the help of its financial service industry friends, continues its assault on this law and on the low- […]
By Joe Grengs No other governmental program comes close to influencing the divided geographic patterns of our metropolitan regions like that of federal transportation. Yet most citizens would be hard-pressed to name who decides how and where transportation dollars are spent. Metropolitan planning organizations, or MPOs, are the bodies through which billions of federal dollars […]
FEATURES Electoral Politics by Itself Doesn’t Work for the Left by Frances Fox Piven 7th Generation by Chester Hartman and Tom Angotti Back to Basics for Progressive Planners by Peter Marcuse Act Locally: Strategies for Cities and Activists under Siege by Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly Needs Are Not Just Urban by Jonathan Lachance U.S. […]
By R. Alan Walks “Morons Elect One of Their Own” was one of the more provocative headlines offered in the wake of the recent US election by commentators here in the Great White North. The phrase is in reference to the much criticized slip-of-the-tongue by Francoise Ducros, ex-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s communications advisor, who called […]
By Frances Fox Piven A good many liberals and progressives are shocked at George Bush’s victory. Republican gains in the Senate and House only make it worse. It is not that we were unaware of the Republican advantages. We knew that the Bush campaign’s constant talk of the war on terror stirred fear and excitement […]
New York City’s Olympic Bid -Why? Peter Marcuse Integrating Visions and Ethics: A Feat of Olympian Proportions Richard Milgrom 2004 Athens Olympic Games Bring Misery to Roma Communities in Greece COHRE Atlanta’s Olympic Legacy Anita Beaty Declining City, Big Ambitions: Leipzig’s Olympic Wish Matthias Bernt An Environmental Success Story? Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Helen Jefferson […]
By Peter Dreier On April 29, 2002, the tenth anniversary of the civil unrest, George W. Bush came to Los Angeles to speak at a church-sponsored community development center at the 1992 riot’s epicenter, South Los Angeles. Given the occasion, reporters might have expected the President to announce a new initiative to address the nation’s […]
By Stephen Goldsmith Honorable men envisioned a Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 1960, almost forty years before the Games were actually staged in our oasis on the edge of a desert. These men believed that long- and short-term economic development opportunities were the genuine gold medals of the games. Exhibiting the magnificent […]
By Christopher A. Shaw The artificial frenzy of the Athens Summer Olympics are now safely behind us and the media have returned to covering real news. Those locked to their TVs for the seventeen days of saturation advertising during the summer were probably unaware that the war in Iraq was still raging, that missile defense […]
By Peter Marcuse Cities have pursued hosting the Olympic Games out of a variety of motivations, often more than one. Absent from these motivations in recent years has been the original purpose of the Games: to promote peace through the substitution of friendly athletic competition for war. “The Games have always brought people together in […]
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