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September/October 1998

Progressive Planning Magazine back issues September/October 1998

September/October 1998 Whither PN?

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 […]

September 30, 1998September 6, 2012 Progressive Planning Magazine back issues, September/October 1998

September/October 1998

You Gotta Represent Dispersing Authority to Dispersed Members

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 […]

September 6, 1998September 6, 2012 September/October 1998

September/October 1998

Support Activists, Question Capitalism

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 […]

September 6, 1998September 6, 2012 September/October 1998

September/October 1998

Keep Networking

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 […]

September 6, 1998September 6, 2012 September/October 1998

September/October 1998

Advocate for Progressive Planning Education

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 […]

September 6, 1998September 6, 2012 September/October 1998

September/October 1998

Collective Action

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 […]

September 6, 1998September 6, 2012 September/October 1998

September/October 1998

From Whence and Whither PN?

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 […]

September 6, 1998September 6, 2012 September/October 1998

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