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By Deborah Cowen A lot has been written about urban neoliberalism but much less about activist responses to it. Planning Action is a group of activists that has been organizing to combat neoliberal policies in Toronto. By sharing our tactics, failures, challenges and even our moments (or months) of confused disillusionment, we hope to advance […]
By Ann Meyerson and Tony Schuman In March 1974, 200 housing and community activists attended a conference in New York City to confront the systematic destruction of low-rent housing caused by government urban renewal programs and expanding private institutions. An organization called Homefront: Citywide Action Group against Neighborhood Destruction and for Low-Rent Housing emerged from […]
The Planners Network 2004 Conference recognized the important role played by five people who for four decades have made outstanding contributions to progressive planning. They began their careers as advocate planners in the spirit of Paul Davidoff, who first made that term popular. LINDA DAVIDOFF, who passed away December 31, 2003, played a central role […]
City Planners Realize Windfalls for Developers and Oppose Inclusionary Zoning Alex Schafran Planning in New York City : Walls that Divide, Bridges that Unite Tom Angotti Planning for All New Yorkers: The Campaign for Community-Based Planning Eve Baron Olympic Glory or Fool’s Gold?: New Yorkers Boo Stadium & Midtown Plan Eugene J. Patron Lower Manhattan […]
By Eugene J. Patron Just a stone’s throw from Manhattan ’s famed Theatre District, the curtain has risen on one of the city’s major urban redevelopment dramas. The line of community and civic groups opposing the massive Hudson Yards plan runs around the block. Dreamed up under the administration of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the […]
By Eve Baron The year 2001 was a landmark one for electoral politics in New York City. Due to the first-time imposition of term limits, two-thirds of the City Council’s incumbent members would lose their seats, making room for the biggest freshman class since the inception of the institution. New York City ’s liberal four-to-one […]
By Tom Angotti As the preeminent global center of capitalism, New York City thrives on the free flow of capital. But it’s not so liberal when it comes to the movement of people. More and more walls are going up that divide people and neighborhoods and restrict freedoms in public space. The city’s planners are […]
By Alex Schafran New York City ’s planners are rezoning land left and right to make way for new housing. They refuse to adopt, however, a tried-and-true method of city planning to ensure that some of the new housing goes to meet the dire housing needs of working-class people. That method, inclusionary zoning, mandates or […]
Bad Meat and Brown Bananas By David C. Sloane 7th Generation By Katherine Crewe Philadelphia’s Food Trust and Supermarket Access By Hannah Burton Inner City Grocery Retail: What Planners Can Do By Kami Pothukuchi Food System Planning:Setting the Community’s Table By Mark Winne Food Problems: A Structural Model and the North Korean Case By Gill-Chin […]
y Gus Newport Following the recent presidential election, many concerned and free-thinking Americans began to wonder, “Where do we go from here?” We soon recovered and recognized that G.W. was inheriting a mess which he himself created. As we wondered how he might get out of this, our initial thoughts were, of course, in reference […]
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