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By Gail Dubrow While there is no shortage of queer folk in the preservation movement, as volunteers and preservation professionals there are very few positive depictions of GLBT identity at the historic sites and buildings that are our life’s work. The stigma of deviance has kept interpreters silent on the subject of sexual orientation even […]
by Juliana Maantay The concentration of waste transfer stations in New York City’s poorer neighborhoods and communities of color undermines public health, equity, and the environment. For all the calculations that have gone into the city’s latest plan for solid waste management, important equity concerns have not been adequately addressed by the city’s planners. With […]
by Tom Angotti So you thought Nixon killed federal urban renewal in the 1970s? Did you know that the federal government is currently financing one of the largest urban renewal plans in history? It has displaced tens of thousands of low-income people over the last decade without any compensation. In their place, the government builds […]
Selected Feature Breath of Air in Harlem by Peggy Dye Shedding Light on the Shades of Strategic Planning by Jordi Borja What Planners Don’t Know About Food: Food Planning in New York and Beyond by John Nettleton
by John Nettleton In recent Planners Network articles on alternative plans for New York City, there was no discussion about the natural resource base for the city or region and no ideas for economic development that build on such a base. Recent articles in the Spring 2000 APA Journal further highlight a neglect by planners […]
by Jordi Borja [In the last issue of PN, Fabricio Leal de Oliveira criticized the theory and practice of strategic planning in Latin America, in his article “Strategic Planning and Urban Competition: The Agenda of Multilateral Agencies in Brazil.” Leal specifically cited the role there of technical advisors from Barcelona, Spain, including Jordi Borja. The […]
by Peggy Dye In the 1930s, Robert Moses, master planner for New York, stripped Harlem of potential park along the Hudson River where, further down the river, his engineers preserved land for white Manhattan communities. In Harlem, planners laid a highway directly on the waterfront to give commuters a delicious view while driving to and […]
Selected Feature Public Space and Crime: The Cultural Meaning of Violence by Herbert Glasauer Strategic Planning and Urban Competition: The Agenda of Multilateral Agencies in Brazil by Fabricio Leal de Oliveira The Role of Technnical/Professional Workers in Progressive Social Change by Bob Heifetz “‘Light and Shadow” a response to Jordi Borja’s “Shedding Light on the […]
by Carlos B. Vainer Professor at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning and Research, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro — IPPUR/UFRJ “In the criticisms from Brazil against strategic planning and the influence of urban planning from Barcelona, which include valid elements, this practice of using loose terminology has become habitual. I refer to […]
by Bob Heifetz During the 1930s and 1940s, members of the left-led Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians (FAECT) helped build a radical political agenda. The experiences of this group of technical and professional workers offer lessons for progressive planning today. The Great Depression of 1929 devastated working America, including its professional/technical workers. By […]
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