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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GCPE Spring Lecture Series concludes on Friday 4/30 with the final interactive panel on Decolonizing the Planning & Development Sector at 5:30 PM EST Moderated by Professor Emeritus Ron Shiffman and NYC-EJA Executive Director Eddie Bautista, and co-sponsored by Planners […]