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Progressive Planning Magazine back issues Spring 2008 Table of Contents

Spring 2008 Tourism Trap

Feature Articles Gaza and the Green Zone: Urban Apartheid and Occupied Territories by Tom Angotti State Support for Social Production of Housing? Mexico’s New Housing Law Exposes Planning Contradictions and Challenges by Jill Wigle and Lorena Zárate A Housing Tour […]

April 28, 2008October 3, 2012 Progressive Planning Magazine back issues, Spring 2008, Table of Contents

Spring 2008

The Role of the Postcard in Inventing Puerto Rico for Domestic Consumption

By Luis Aponte-Parés Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world today. Its impact on the environment, national economies, technology, social mores, health, culture and an array of other areas is very large and difficult to capture. In […]

April 3, 2008May 12, 2017 Spring 2008

Spring 2008

Bounded Tourism: Plaza Mexico in California

By Clara Irazábal and Macarena Gómez-Barris This article is excerpted with permission from Clara Irazábal and Macarena Gómez-Barris. “Bounded Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption, and Traditions at Plaza Mexico.” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 5 (3), 2007: 186-213. Conceived and owned by Korean […]

April 3, 2008October 3, 2012 Spring 2008

Spring 2008

Gender and Urban Planning: Time for Another Look

By Regula Modlich Almost fifty years ago, Jane Jacobs shook the planning establishment with her bookThe Death and Life of Great American Cities. While neither explicitly feminist nor oriented to women, Jacobs’ perspectives were rooted in the life experiences, sensitivities […]

April 3, 2008October 3, 2012 Spring 2008

Spring 2008

Gaza and the Green Zone: Urban Apartheid and Occupied Territories

By Tom Angotti City planning and military strategy are indistinguishable in the occupied territories of Palestine and Iraq, where together they rob Palestinians and Iraqis of basic human rights and freedoms. Yet city planners in the United States, the nation […]

April 3, 2008October 3, 2012 Spring 2008

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