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By Kristin Day The US population is heavier than ever, with obesity and overweight reaching alarming levels. Inadequate physical activity explains at least part of this trend. As Thomas Halton explains elsewhere (see “Obesity Epidemic” in this issue), 22 percent of US adults today do not participate in regular leisure-time physical activity. The health implications […]
On the Practical Relevance of Marxist Thought By Renee Toback Seventh Generation By Tom Angotti Participatory Planning in Cuba By Marie Kennedy, Lorna Rivera and Chris Tilly Sound Theory and Political Savvy By Morris Zeitlin Socialists and Cities By Joan Roelofs The Dilemmas of Cuban Housing Policies By Jill Hamberg Building Alternative Communities By Derek […]
By Marie Kennedy, Lorna Rivera and Chris Tilly Last January we sat with about thirty Cubans in a community arts center in Boyeros, on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. The group included artists, teachers, social workers, government officials, architects, engineers and health professionals, all working in Boyeros. We were leading a three-day participatory planning workshop […]
By Tom Angotti Some thirty years ago when Planners Network started, many progressive planners proposed or discussed socialist alternatives to capitalist urban development and planning. Central planning in the Soviet Union, China and the emerging socialist nations of Africa and Asia was a reality, although there were differing judgments about the merits of these regimes. […]
By Renee Toback Progressives and socialists get very different press today than we did thirty years ago. What is unchanged from thirty years ago, however, is the status of “socialism” in the United States and the usefulness of Marxist analysis. When I received the first issue of Planners Network thirty years ago, I was a […]
War and the Urban ‘Geopolitical Footprint’ By Michael Dudley Seventh Generation By Tom Angotti Over 160 US Cities for Peace By Eugene Patron Dividing and Rebuilding Beirut By Katja Simons Vieques: El Impacto del Bombardeo en las Poblaciones Civiles Plan Puebla Panama By Wendy Call Roadmap to Stop the Bulldozers For a More Social World […]
By Katja Simons Will the US-led invasion of Iraq make Baghdad into another Beirut? How will the battle to reconstruct Iraq develop? Despite obvious differences, a look at the history of the Lebanese war, where external forces played no small role, may hint at what lies ahead. Last year an upscale, subterranean Japanese restaurant designed […]
By Eugene J. Patron More than 160 city and county councils in the US have passed resolutions opposing a preemptive or unilateral war in Iraq. This groundswell of local civic expression runs directly counter to claims by the Bush administration and members of Congress that they continue to have the support of the great majority […]
By Michael Dudley Mushroom clouds blossoming over dense cityscapes. Thousands of gun emplacements throughout Baghdad promising fierce resistance. Civilians killed by the hundreds in open marketplaces, in cars, in their homes. Brutal building-by-building urban warfare, with heritage sites thousands of years old destroyed in the crossfire. Thick oily smoke billowing through the city in a […]
Post 9/11 Section: The Ground Zero Architectural Competition By Peter Marcuse Seventh Generation By PN Editors Imagine New York By Penelope Duda and Eva Hanhardt Post-9/11 Planning By Tom Angotti From Pruitt-Igoe to the World Trade Center By Clara Irazabal Homeland Security By Jacqueline Leavitt Regular Section: Fuel Cell Futility By Chip Haynes Planning as […]
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