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By Leonie Sandercock Twenty something years ago I wrote a book (my first) called Cities for Sale, which opened with the following statement: “This book is about failure. City planning in Australia this century has failed to improve the welfare of our city dwellers and unless we understand why, our urban planners will continue to devise […]
Labor and Community Living wage, Live action Reprinted from The Nation by Robert Pollin Labor and community Not an Easy Marriage by Maryann Leshin Whither Planners Network? Are We Progressive Planners? by Ruth Yabes Promote International Networking and Local Action by Barbara Loevinger Rahder Column The Seventh Generation: Watch Out! It’s Giuliani Time! by Tom Angotti
by Tom Angotti Seems wherever we New Yorkers go these days we hear about the great job “our”mayor’s doing. They say that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has cleaned up the streets, cut the crime rate and pulled the city out of debt. He’s made unruly New York more civil, going after taxi drivers, jaywalkers, street peddlers […]
by Barbara Loevinger Rahder The value of Planners Network for me is the opportunity it provides for networking with progressive planners, academics, and activists in other places, and the support and ideas that these contacts offer my work locally. In thinking about where PN might develop in the future, I’d like to see these strengths […]
by Ruth Yabes What should Planners Network and progressive planners be doing? How can I possibly answer that question since I don’t feel I am a true progressive planner. I am embarrassed to admit this, but I don’t think I am alone among PN members. The classes I teach have not been as successful as […]
by Maryann Leshin The prospect of bringing together labor and community at the PN 1999 Conference brings to mind several critical discrepancies between the agendas of these two groups. I see labor and community from the perspective of someone who has worked for affordable housing and community development for the past two decades, a one-time […]
by Robert Pollin This past summer, security workers at LAX airport in Los Angeles began their first-ever union organizing drive. They were motivated, labor activists say, by the city’s foot-dragging in implementing a living-wage ordinance that had passed the previous year and guaranteed a minimum of $7.25 an hour (rising with inflation every July 1), […]
Columns and Opinion The Seventh Generation by Tom Angotti Collective Action by Patricia Nolan Feature Advocate for Progressive Planning Education by Cathy Klump Keep Networking by Gwen Urey Support Activists, Question Capitalism by Dick Platkin You Gotta Represent Dispersing Authority to Dispersed Members by John McCrory
By John McCrory When we pause to consider what purpose Planners Network can usefully serve in the coming years, I think we must begin by recognizing the limits of a national organization such as ours. We must understand what PN can and cannot do. Planners Network is a national, even international, association of volunteer members. […]
By Dick Platkin First, PN should be a source of analysis and technical resources for community struggles, especially those involving public budgets. For the past generation public investment in most urban programs has shrunk. This trend was already obvious in the 1970s and has since gotten steadily worse. This is clearly bad news for most […]
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