November/December 1999 – Planners Network

November/December 1999 Progressive Planning Magazine back issues Table of Contents

November/December 1999 Smart Growth

Selected Feature How Smarth Growth Can Save Growth By Tom Angotti Oregon: Where’s the Growth Control? by Kevin Adams Who Benefits From Smart Growth? By Faisal Roble

November/December 1999

Who Benefits From Smart Growth?

By Faisal Roble Politicians all over are hawking smart growth as a formula for enlightened urban development. They include everyone from President Clinton and Vice-President Gore to Mayors in Oregon and Texas. The smart growth movement endorses development strategies that […]

November/December 1999

Oregon: Where’s the Growth Control?

by Kevin Adams In September of 1998 I had a wonderful opportunity to serve another year in AmeriCorps National Service (“domestic Peace Corps”). The Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) Program provided me a great opportunity to work as an […]

November/December 1999

How Smarth Growth Can Save Growth

By Tom Angotti I saw Lewis Mumford the other day. He was the beneficiary of a technological revolution in embalming (how ironic, he so distrusted technological revolutions). He said he heard all the chatter about Smart Growth and Growth Control and […]

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Assistant to the Chair for Communications & Marketing, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Pratt Institute, NYC

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Call for Submissions for Free City magazine, on the theme of “Revive”

The students of the McGill School of Urban Planning publish an online magazine called Free City. Check out the call for submissions for the upcoming issue, on the theme of “Revive”. Deadline January 24th! https://free-city.ca/call-for-submissions The theme of the fifth […]

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Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Climate Change The School of Planning at Dalhousie University invites applications for a probationary tenure-streamAssistant Professor position, starting in July 2022. Dalhousie University, located in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is one of […]