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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 […]
By Oren Yiftachel There are few societies in which urban and regional planning has been so central to nation-building and state policy as Israel. Over the years, Israeli planning has been a pivotal activity for reshaping the landscape according to the Zionist image of a modern, European-like settler society, while erasing its Palestinian-Arab past and […]
By Eugene J. Patron People in Montgomery, Alabama will tell you that as much as the city likes to see itself as part of the “New” South, local politicians have been slow to give up their old, dirty tricks. For the better part of the 1990s, the Montgomery City Council and Mayor threatened to shut […]
By Janice Etter In the last few years, Toronto’s newspapers have been full of references to “gridlock” as the city’s major transportation challenge. Letters to the editor–mainly from car drivers–rant about the amount of time it takes to travel around the city, while municipal politicians debate widening expressways and giving priority to buses and streetcars […]
By Rich Stolz West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT) has fought for years to mitigate the high concentration of bus depots in this New York City neighborhood. Diesel exhaust has been linked by researchers to asthma and cancer, and WE ACT continues to demand that transportation agencies deal with the health impacts of their facilities. […]
By Lisa Schreibman We are paying dearly for the American love affair with the car. We pay through taxes and out of our pockets. The environmental costs are staggering, and the toll in deaths and injuries is comparable to the casualty lists from major wars. Automakers tell us their products are increasingly safe because they […]
Special Issue on 2002 PN Conference Bridging Divides, Building Futures: A Puerto Rican Perspective By Agustin Lao-montes Seventh Generation By Eve Baron Bridging Divides, Building Futures: Conference Planning as Cross-Cultural Dialogue By Kiara L. Nagel 2002 Planners Network Conference Summary By Arturo Ignacio Sánchez Retrospective Holyoke: Housing By Chris Holme The Art of Revitalization in […]
By Leonardo Vazquez, PP/AICP A friend of mine, a terrific planner in the private sector, gets called in on jobs from public sector clients and private sector colleagues who want him to join their team. He is one of the few senior-level planners of African-American heritage in the New York area, and while I would […]
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