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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 […]
By Gwen Urey Planners Network was in the vanguard by conceiving of itself as a “network” in 1975. We have evolved technologically, holding ourselves together through old newsletter technology and the new pn-net and Web page. As these vehicles and our conferences reflect, a network has been not only a way for members to communicate […]
By Cathy Klump Most planners stumble into planning en route to their perceived destiny as lawyers, doctors, English professors, and business people. For a number of reasons, the career aspiration of a more mainstream job gets excused, and in its place comes a profession or lifestyle that is intertwined in every aspect of daily life. […]
By Patricia Nolan “While we think and plan, we shouldn’t let thinking and planning get in the way of or substitute for doing.” When I decided to be a planner, a colleague and mentor of mine shared this thought with me after I expressed dismay at the way planners allow a lack of political will […]
by Tom Angotti [half] In the last couple of issues, we asked PN members to give us their views on what Planners Network and progressive planners should be doing. We got a variety of answers, which are printed in this issue of PN. Patricia Nolan urges us to take on a PN action project. Dick […]
By Dick Platkin One of the most vexing problems facing progressive planners in the United States is the enduring poverty of America’s inner cities, made worse in recent years by the loss of jobs through technological change, downsizing, and capital flight. According to the renowned urban sociologist, William J. Wilson, job loss has exacerbated such […]
Columns and Opinion The Seventh Generation: Special Issue on Feminism, Gender, and Planning by Ann Forsyth Do Equity Planners Care About Health Care ? by Patricia Nolan Feature Women Plan Toronto: Incorporating Gender Issues in Urban Planning by Barbara Loevinger Rahder Lifting Women’s Voices: The Roofless Women’s Action Research Mobilization and Participatory Action Research by Marie […]
by Wanda I. Mills Community building and development efforts need to take into account differences among groups within communities. I propose a model that looks at how class, race, ethnicity, nationality, colonial status, sexuality and gender produce diverse relationships among women and men. This model examines gender differences by using storytelling, life and group histories, […]
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