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By Lynn Lewis Picture the Homeless is a decade-old grass roots membership organization of homeless New Yorkers, and a member of the coordinating committee of the New York City Right to the City Alliance. We have targeted the powerful Chase Manhattan Bank to press for real changes in the way people are housed, as one […]
By Clara Irazábal and Susan Fainstein Peter Marcuse is known throughout the world as a leading scholar and practitioner of progressive planning, but he has also been an outstanding member of Planners Network since it was founded in 1975. Peter is an attorney, a practicing planner and a teacher of planning. He is truly one of the most multifaceted, […]
By Michela Zonta Open the newspaper on any day of the week and you will most likely come across a headline such as “U.S. Unemployment Rate at 26-Year High,” “Hundreds of Workers Laid Off,” or “Area Foreclosures Increase,” along with news about business closures, bankrupt financial institutions and increasing rates of homelessness. Such headlines and news are not very different from […]
Mobilizing Hope and Obama by Tom Angotti The Right to the City Alliance: Time to Democratize Urban Governance by Jacqueline Leavitt, Tony Roshan Samara, Marnie Brady Sticking It to the Banks and Keeping Residents in Their Homes by City Life/Vida Urbana’s Bank Tenant Association Dear Dr. Dollar by Arthur Macewan Columbia University’s Expansion and the […]
By Brian Paul In 2003 Columbia University announced its plan for a new campus in West Harlem and promised a collaborative partnership with the local community. Looking back at Columbia’s troubled and racially charged relations with Harlem, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger proudly proclaimed that “Columbia is a different neighbor now…We want to stay here […]
By Jackie Leavitt, Tony Roshan Samara and Marnie Brady In 2007, grassroots organizers in the United States formed the U.S. Right to the City (RTTC) Alliance as a means of taking their cities back from the coalitions of affluence that had formed during the 1980s and reframing the central scale of social struggle from the […]
By Tom Angotti Many progressive planners continue to be hopeful that the Obama administration will usher in real change that we can believe in. But unless we ratchet up the organizing the prospects for change are not good. Obama can’t and won’t do it on hope alone. And there are just enough angry white men […]
Bengaluru Goes from Garden City to Nano Land by Tom Angotti Feature Articles Israel’s Ongoing War Against the Palestinians of Gaza by Marie Kennedy Playas Para Todos: The Struggle for Puerto Rico’s Coast by Katherine T. McCaffrey Urban Prospects Under Obama Right to the City Builds Alliance, Confronts Mayors by Jacqueline Leavitt Urban Prospects in […]
By Dick Platkin American cities are entering a perfect storm of deepening urban crises despite—and in some cases because of—the hopes that many community activists hold for the Obama administration. Activists fully expect the new administration to effectively address a wide range of urban problems, but that is unlikely. What is likely is that over […]
By Jacqueline Leavitt When the U.S. Conference of Mayors arrived in Providence, Rhode Island, this June, it faced an unexpected list of issues and demands from a national organization, the U.S. Right to the City (RTTC) Alliance. RTTC, which promotes a new form of organizing that combines local and national actions around a common framework […]
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