Selected Feature Breath of Air in Harlem by Peggy Dye Shedding Light on the Shades of Strategic Planning by Jordi Borja What Planners Don’t Know About Food: Food Planning in New York and Beyond by John Nettleton
What Planners Don’t Know About Food: Food Planning in New york and Beyond
by John Nettleton In recent Planners Network articles on alternative plans for New York City, there was no discussion about the natural resource base for the city or region and no ideas for economic development that build on such a […]
Shedding Light on the Shades of Strategic Planning
by Jordi Borja [In the last issue of PN, Fabricio Leal de Oliveira criticized the theory and practice of strategic planning in Latin America, in his article “Strategic Planning and Urban Competition: The Agenda of Multilateral Agencies in Brazil.” Leal […]
A Breath of Air in Harlem
by Peggy Dye In the 1930s, Robert Moses, master planner for New York, stripped Harlem of potential park along the Hudson River where, further down the river, his engineers preserved land for white Manhattan communities. In Harlem, planners laid a […]
September/October 2000 Planning
Selected Feature Public Space and Crime: The Cultural Meaning of Violence by Herbert Glasauer Strategic Planning and Urban Competition: The Agenda of Multilateral Agencies in Brazil by Fabricio Leal de Oliveira The Role of Technnical/Professional Workers in Progressive Social Change […]
Light and Shadow in the Strategies of a Consultant on Strategies
by Carlos B. Vainer Professor at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning and Research, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro — IPPUR/UFRJ “In the criticisms from Brazil against strategic planning and the influence of urban planning from Barcelona, which […]
The Role of Technical/Professional Workers in Progressive Social Change
by Bob Heifetz During the 1930s and 1940s, members of the left-led Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians (FAECT) helped build a radical political agenda. The experiences of this group of technical and professional workers offer lessons for progressive […]
Strategic Planning and Urban Competition: The Agenda of Mulitlateral Agencies in Brazil
by Fabricio Leal de Oliveira In Brazil today, the same solutions for cities come up in almost all forums, debates, and institutions: sustainability and competition. Competition, which is expressed through strategic urban planning, affects all local policy, including environmental policy. […]
Public Space and Crime: The Cultural Meaning of Violence
by Herbert Glasauer In Germany, as in most European countries, there has been a dramatic increase in people’s concerns about insecurity in the past thirty years. In particular, people living in big cities are afraid of using public urban space […]
July/August 2000 Civil Society
Selected Feature What You Always Knew About Globalization but Were Afraid to Tell: Five Basic Lessons by Kanishka Goonewardena Mexico’s Pioneer Experiences in Participatory Planning by Gustavo Romero Fernöndez Civil Society: A Challenge to Planners by Gerda R. Wekerle
Civil Society: A Challenge to Planners
by Gerda R. Wekerle Planning is generally identified with the state or private sector. ‘Citizens’ are often relegated to discussions of citizen participation, which is token and marginal to the real action. Or they are described as “special interests,” one […]
Mexico’s Pioneer Experiences in Participatory Planning
By Gustavo Romero Fernšndez In the early 1970s, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) began to get involved in urban planning. They were invited to get involved because they weren’t “urban planning professionals” but technicians linked to the social processes of popular urban […]
What You Always Knew About Globalization but Were Afraid to Tell: Five Basic Lessons
By Kanishka Goonewardena Globalization is a code word for something else. That is why David Harvey has the good habit of reminding his audiences that by globalization he means “the latest stage in the development of capitalism.” If he were […]
May/June 2000 The Electronic Frontier
May/June 2000 The Electronic Frontier Selected Feature Information Technologies and Progressive Planning by Ann Forsyth Online for Organizing: The Story of COMM-ORG by Randy Stoeker NKLA: Neighborhood Improvement and Recovery is Not Just for the Experts! by Bill Pitkin The […]
Household Information Strategies and Community Responses
by Gwen Urey For progressive planners, the “digital divide” should be thought of as a “digital wedge.” Technology-based strategies to improve the flow of information at the local level may have perverse effects if we don’t really understand the needs […]
The “Digital Divide” and the Persistence of Urban Poverty
by Blanca Gordo In the last six months, the “digital divide” has attracted a lot of public attention from corporate leaders, politicians, and scholars. The growing interest is in part a response to the release of the Department of Commerce’s […]
NKLA: Neighborhood Improvement and Recovery is Not Just for the Experts!
by Bill Pitkin Within planning, the computer has long been associated with images of the rational, technocratic planner who plugs data into a model that magically analyzes the information and proposes optimal solutions. Planners within a ‘progressive planning’ tradition tend […]
Online for Organizing: The Story of COMM-ORG
by Randy Stoeker In 1994 Wendy Plotkin, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, started an e-mail discussion list on the history of community organizing. She had lined up a nice set of papers to present on-line. But while […]
Information Technologies and Progressive Planning
by Ann Forsyth For two centuries technological changes in production, transportation, and communications have been reshaping cities and regions; and for around a century people recognizable as planners have been trying to manage those changes. We are currently in the […]
March/April 2000 Election 2000
March/April 2000 Election 2000 Selected Feature Election 2000: Is It Time for Urban Policy? Participatory Budgeting In Porto Alegre, Brazil by William W. Goldsmith Proposal for PEO History Project By Ken Reardon
Proposal for PEO History Project
By Ken Reardon On October 15 and 16, 1999, approximately fifty former members of Planners for Equal Opportunity (PEO) gathered for a 25th Reunion Celebration at Pratt Institute’s Manhattan Center. Following a short set of remarks by Lew Lubka and […]
Participatory Budgeting In Porto Alegre, Brazil
by William W. Goldsmith In December 1999, seven PNers went to Porto Alegre and São Paulo, Brazil for nine days of conferences, meetings, and tours to exchange information about progressive alternatives for local government. In Porto Alegre, we made presentations […]
Election 2000: Is It Time for Urban Policy?
Could it be urban policy time again? As Bush and Gore square off, is there a chance the idea of having a national policy governing urban development ð something most other industrialized nations have could catch their attention? Election […]
January/February 2000 Self Determination and Planning
January/February 2000 Self Determination and Planning Selected Feature The Seventh Generation By Eve Baron Self Determination and Planning by Eve Baron Indigenous Planning and Tribal Community Development by Ted Jojola São Paulo Squat by Barbara Lynch
São Paulo Squat
By Barbara Lynch A highlight of the Planner’s Network trip to Brazil was our December 11 visit to a squat on a lively commercial street in São Paulo’s downtown, close to the streets where mass demonstrations assembled in the 1980s to […]
Indigenous Planning and Tribal Community Development
by Ted Jojola What we ask of America is not charity, not paternalism, even when benevolent. We ask only that the nature of our situation be recognized and made the basis of policy and action. ›Declaration of Indian Purpose, American […]
Self-Determination and Planning
by Eve Baron During the winter of 1990 an Associated Press photograph of a young Mohawk man dressed in camouflage fatigues appeared in the New York Times. He was on his belly commando-style, brandishing an assault rifle at some unseen […]
7th generation
By Eve Baron Native Americans have been in the news quite a bit in the last few years›striking it rich with casinos; making hefty political campaign contributions; prompting inquiries into the affairs of cabinet members; bringing Las Vegas to its […]