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By Aaron Golub Nothing defines and shapes post-war urban transportation in the United States more than the automobile. The strong links between transportation, land use, and urban development affect nearly every aspect of the urban environment. Planners now find that providing for the circulation and storage of automobiles is an integral part of their jobs. […]
By Dick Platkin and Ben Rosenbloom, Guest Editors This issue of Planners Network is on the Urban Growth Machine, a popular model for understanding the development of land under capitalism. As presented by William Fulton in The Reluctant Metropolis, the growth machine is a cabal of lenders, local boosters, newspaper editors, home builders, contractors, construction unions, Democratic […]
By Dwayne Wyatt The Growth Machine that gave us suburban sprawl is going to the inner city. But the benefits of the new urban megaprojects are bypassing most central city residents. And the costs are falling on urban taxpayers, making the fiscal crisis worse. For the first time since the rebellions of the 1960s, corporate […]
Selected Feature Transnationalism not Assimilation By Arturo Sanchez PN 99 At Lowell: Labor and Community Meet By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly Contesting Mythic America: Community-based Citizenship Education for Immigrants By Laura Y. Liu Transnational and Local Communities: How Mexican Gangs get Made in New York By Robert Smith
By Robert Smith Migration has both local and transnational dimensions. Many of the problems that immigrants face ð for example, disruption of family and social life and exploitation at work are experienced both in their country of origin and their country of residence. And problems that first arise in immigrant communities in the US can […]
By Laura Y. Liu Community-based organizations have long served immigrant groups in urban areas. They organize around labor issues, deal with domestic violence, and help immigrants negotiate the naturalization process. In many ways, community groups mediate between government and the communities they serve. Local community groups often represent the state to particular groups of immigrants, […]
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly “WHO’S IN THE HOUSE?” Participants at the Planners Network 1999 conference got used to hearing conference co-coordinator Ty DePass calling out this invitation to stand up and be counted. At this first-ever PN meeting on labor and community, held at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in June, over 230 activists […]
By Arturo Sanchez The contemporary urban landscape is rapidly being transformed by massive waves of non-European immigration. This movement of Third World peoples to the “American City” is viewed by many influential decisionmakers as problematic. In the popular mind, large-scale immigrant clusters are seen as sites of disorder and are associated with the breakup of […]
Column The Seventh Generation by Tom Angotti Articles Organizing A Childcare Union In Philadelphia By Peter Pitegoff Worker Coops By Chitra Somayaji Employee Stock Ownership — ESOPS By Corey Rosen The Uncertain Future Of Worker Ownership: Two Decades Of Lessons By Len Krimerman Immigrant Economies and New York City’s Garment Industry: Challenges for Community Development […]
By Tarry Hum Despite its dramatic and continued decline, apparel production remains the largest manufacturing industry in New York City. It is viable, in large part, due to the mass influx of new immigrants “sweating” it out in cramped, poorly ventilated factories for a piece-rate that averages a dollar or so per assembled garment. The […]
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