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By Eugene J. Patron Just a stone’s throw from Manhattan ’s famed Theatre District, the curtain has risen on one of the city’s major urban redevelopment dramas. The line of community and civic groups opposing the massive Hudson Yards plan runs around the block. Dreamed up under the administration of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the […]
By Eve Baron The year 2001 was a landmark one for electoral politics in New York City. Due to the first-time imposition of term limits, two-thirds of the City Council’s incumbent members would lose their seats, making room for the biggest freshman class since the inception of the institution. New York City ’s liberal four-to-one […]
By Tom Angotti As the preeminent global center of capitalism, New York City thrives on the free flow of capital. But it’s not so liberal when it comes to the movement of people. More and more walls are going up that divide people and neighborhoods and restrict freedoms in public space. The city’s planners are […]
By Alex Schafran New York City ’s planners are rezoning land left and right to make way for new housing. They refuse to adopt, however, a tried-and-true method of city planning to ensure that some of the new housing goes to meet the dire housing needs of working-class people. That method, inclusionary zoning, mandates or […]
Bad Meat and Brown Bananas By David C. Sloane 7th Generation By Katherine Crewe Philadelphia’s Food Trust and Supermarket Access By Hannah Burton Inner City Grocery Retail: What Planners Can Do By Kami Pothukuchi Food System Planning:Setting the Community’s Table By Mark Winne Food Problems: A Structural Model and the North Korean Case By Gill-Chin […]
y Gus Newport Following the recent presidential election, many concerned and free-thinking Americans began to wonder, “Where do we go from here?” We soon recovered and recognized that G.W. was inheriting a mess which he himself created. As we wondered how he might get out of this, our initial thoughts were, of course, in reference […]
By Danielle Schami The majority of small-scale producers in Mexico contend with multiple pressures that impair their efforts to grow food. In addition to the everyday struggles related to poverty, these producers face a host of challenges resulting from agrarian reform, climate change, structural adjustment, biotechnology and international trade agreements. El Círculo de Producción y Consumo […]
By Heather Stouder A key (and often contradictory) challenge for local food system initiatives is to take a syst ematic approach to move beyond providing local flavor to a privileged few, while ensuring that farmers and food producers receive a fair price for their products. Though addressing only a small piece of this puzzle, the […]
By Mark Winne Food system planning is a relatively new concept that grows out of American society’s increasing concern for what it eats, where and how its food is produced and the inequities that exist in the distribution of food resources. Like other planning activities, food system planning is concerned with what happens and […]
By David C. Sloane for the African Americans Building a Legacy of Health Coalition /REACH 2010 Project What do planners have to do with food? Since 1999, community residents, community organizations and researchers in planning and health have been working to understand food security in the Los Angeles area and to increase options for healthier […]
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