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Seventh Generation How Imperial Decline Contributes to Urban Decay in Los Angeles (644 KB) by Dick Platkin Focus on Los Angeles Here’s Why We’re Not Finding Real Solutions to Homelessness in LA by Steve Clare Learning from Los Angeles: People’s Planning in the City of Angels by Lauren Ahkiam The Los Angeles 1992 Civil Disturbance: A […]
Seventh Generation Occupy Urban Planning! (221 KB) By Tom Angotti and Marie Kennedy Occupy Racism by Chester Hartman Occupy! The Tactic of Occupation and the Movement of the 99 Percent by Jonathan Matthew Smucker What Can We Do In Public? Lessons from Zuccotti Park by Manissa McCleave Maharawal Occupy Nowhere: OWS After the Eviction by Samuel […]
Seventh Generation Sites Speak Louder than Words: Occupy Wall Street in New York City (471 KB) By Samuel Stein Manufacturing Introduction to the Special Issue on Manufacturing (410 KB) By Jennifer Clark and Pierre Clavel Planners and Manufacturing: An Uneasy Alliance (210 KB) By Robert Giloth Job Creation Strategies to Accelerate the Return of U.S. Manufacturing By Susan […]
The Seventh Generation An Urban Need for a New Economic Public Policy Approach in Economic Development Practice (190 KB) by Fernando Centeno Feature Articles Public Transit’s Imperiled Future (153 KB) By Lisa Schweitzer Getting There: Putting Accessibility into Practice for Progressive Transportation Planning By Jonathan Levine and Joe Grengs What is Transportation Equity? By Tom Sanchez Race, […]
The Seventh Generation The Austerity Scam by Peter Marcuse Feature Articles Planning in an Age of Austerity—1979 and 2011 by Pierre Clavel MLK Assassination: 1968 Sanitation Strike Reminds Us What’s at Stake Today by Chad Johnson The Right Fit for Scale: Crafting Progressive and Sustainable Community Development: A Synopsis of the Planners Network Conference Session […]
The Seventh Generation Why Unions Matter: Defending the Great Equalizer by Chris Tilly Feature Articles From and Toward a Queer Urbanism by Kian Goh Challenging the Mixed-Income Housing Paradigm: Preserving Low-Income Communities through Non-Profit Development Initiatives by Michael Pyatok Growing Greener in the City: Open Space Advocacy for Environmental Justice in Jackson Heights by Donovan […]
By Michael Pyatok Recent federal housing policy and conventional wisdom among a new generation of housing professionals assert that, to overcome problems of poverty in lower income communities, those communities must either be dispersed among higher income neighborhoods or injected with a massive dose of higher income households so that the lower income households become a […]
By Kian Goh “The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationships to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire.” —David Harvey, “The Right to the City” “. . . Queer space finds in the closet or the dark alley places where it […]
The Seventh Generation The Heresies in HUD’s Public Housing Policy by Peter Marcuse Feature Articles Just Transportation Planning: Lessons from California by Richard A. Marcantonio The Ongoing Debate Over Privatization of Public Housing: National Association of HUD Tenants Comments on Draft Ellison PETRA Bill by National Association of HUD Tenants Transit-Oriented Development and Communities of […]
By Gen Fujioka Transit-oriented development (TOD) has become a leading policy prescription for reversing America’s sprawling path of growth. The Obama administration, through its Sustainable Communities Initiative, state and local agencies and progressive think-tanks all emphasize TOD as a means to achieve housing, transportation and environmental goals, often through public-private partnerships. But as TOD has […]
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