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PLANNING MANAGER Monthly Salary: $8,037.10 – $10,381.68 Includes Competitive Benefits Package The City of Stockton is seeking to fill a Planning Manager position to oversee an Advanced Planning Section in the Community Development Department. This position will be responsible for the strategic implementation of a recently adopted General Plan Update that requires further […]
GIS PLANNER POSITION (Announcement) May 2019 The Northeast Georgia Regional Commission (NEGRC) is seeking qualified applicants for the position of GIS Planner within its Planning & Government Services (PGS) Division. The GIS Planner is primarily responsible for meeting the daily GIS (Geographical Information System) requirements of the NEGRC and assisting in local and regional efforts […]
SFB 1265 Summer School 2019 Spaces of Hope: Critical Perspectives on Spatial (Trans)Formations Berlin, September 11th to 13th, hosted by the Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1265) “Re-Figuration of Spaces” In times of escalating socio-spatial inequality and the global backlash of regressive politics, engaging with alternative and progressive forms of spatial (trans)formations […]
Position Title: Director of Community and Economic Development Employer’s Name: City of Burlington, Vermont Job Location (City, State): Burlington, Vermont Job description: The City of Burlington, Vermont seeks a Director of Community and Economic Development for the City of Burlington, an organization of ~800 employees serving the Vermont’s largest City of more than 40,000 […]
Tenure Track Assistant Professor City & Metropolitan Planning University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT The Department of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position to begin in Fall 2019. We seek a colleague with a commitment to excellence in teaching and demonstrated ability to […]
Fight for $15 Protest in Montréal, May 1, 2018. Photo by Mostafa Henaway. Across cities in North America and here in Montréal, Québec, a new type of labour movement has begun to emerge. That movement is the ‘fight for $15’ and it has won victories across states such as California, New York, Seattle, all the way […]
Remaining House in Beira Rio, after neighboring houses were demolished. Photo by Natalie Southwick. Source: http://www.rioonwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Island-of-homes-in-Beira-Rio-e1531319776658.jpg As of 2015, the City of Rio’s own data showed that 22,059 families (an estimated 77,000 individuals) across the city had been evicted from their homes since 2009, whether in the name of environmental protection, moving people out of ‘areas of […]
Student Maribel Meza addressing the assembly, San Miguel Analco. Photo by Marie Kennedy. [In part one of this article, the meaning of transformative community planning for community development was explored, highlighting the importance of vesting decision-making in the people most affected by the problems being addressed. In brief, it is participatory planning that empowers the […]
Unleashing the creative energy of ordinary people wherever we work in the world. Photos by Marie Kennedy. INTRODUCTION Transformative community planning is a way of working with communities across divisions. It is not based on the superficial pasting together of short-lived, issue specific coalitions, but on transforming relations between groups. In this sense, it […]
Photo by Lisa Berglund The 48217 zip code of Detroit is considered the most polluted zip code in Michigan. This fact was discovered by public health scholar-advocates concerned with environmental justice in this majority Black city. Many residents of 48217 are children of the second great migration, and part of a very tight knit community […]
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