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By Michael Dudley Mushroom clouds blossoming over dense cityscapes. Thousands of gun emplacements throughout Baghdad promising fierce resistance. Civilians killed by the hundreds in open marketplaces, in cars, in their homes. Brutal building-by-building urban warfare, with heritage sites thousands of years old destroyed in the crossfire. Thick oily smoke billowing through the city in a […]
Post 9/11 Section: The Ground Zero Architectural Competition By Peter Marcuse Seventh Generation By PN Editors Imagine New York By Penelope Duda and Eva Hanhardt Post-9/11 Planning By Tom Angotti From Pruitt-Igoe to the World Trade Center By Clara Irazabal Homeland Security By Jacqueline Leavitt Regular Section: Fuel Cell Futility By Chip Haynes Planning as […]
December 13, 2002 WASHINGTON, DC In an unusual move, the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) today condemned the remarks made by Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi on December 5 suggesting that the United States “wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years” if Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), the presidential nominee […]
By Adrian Blackwell and Kanishka Goonewardena, for Planning Action On September 24, 2002 the Toronto media reported two events under two separate headlines. The smaller headline was about the unveiling of the new official plan of the city of Toronto. This began with news of presentations by Mayor Lastman and the director of the Planning […]
By Jeff Halper In Israel’s thirty-six-year occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, planning has been perfected as a tool of political control. Nowhere in the world is planning used with such sophistication to such a single-minded purpose. Because Israel denies having an “occupation” at all–insisting that it is merely reclaiming the historic […]
By Chip Haynes Hey, big news: the federal government has stopped trying to get the American auto industry to build fuel-efficient gas cars and instead has hung its hat onto hydrogen fuel cells (HFCs). Yeah, well, it’s not like that fuel efficiency thing was going to work out anyway, right? OK, you can stop laughing […]
By Penelope Duda and Eva Hanhardt The tragic events of September 11, 2001 profoundly affected us all. Within days property owners, politicians, the press and some planning and architecture professionals began to propose how the city and region should quickly rebuild, some even calling for a “redevelopment czar.” Yet, to many others it was clear […]
By the Editors Tom Angotti, Eve Baron, Ann Forsyth, Kara Heffernan, Norma Rantisi This time last year, we produced the first issue of Planners Network Magazine. Instead of uncorking champagne or baking a birthday cake, we’d like you to join us in taking a look at what we’ve done and where we want to go […]
By Peter Marcuse Nine proposals by teams of internationally-renowned architects were unveiled by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) in December, 2002. They made the front pages of every New York newspaper, and have been subject to extensive comment ever since. Both praise for imaginative ideas and criticism for overblown gigantism have been heaped […]
Special Issue on Transportation The Costs of Auto Dependency By Lisa Schreibman Seventh Generation By Tom Angotti Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice By Rich Stolz Toronto Car Culture Is Alive and Well By Janice Etter Toronto Cyclists Fight for Respect By Nick Gamble and Nancy Smith Lea Toronto’s Eco Foot Soldiers Take Back the Streets […]
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