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by Randy Stoeker In 1994 Wendy Plotkin, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, started an e-mail discussion list on the history of community organizing. She had lined up a nice set of papers to present on-line. But while she originally envisioned that this on-line group would discuss the historical dimensions of community organizing, […]
by Ann Forsyth For two centuries technological changes in production, transportation, and communications have been reshaping cities and regions; and for around a century people recognizable as planners have been trying to manage those changes. We are currently in the midst of a new wave of technological change that started in earnest in the 1970s […]
March/April 2000 Election 2000 Selected Feature Election 2000: Is It Time for Urban Policy? Participatory Budgeting In Porto Alegre, Brazil by William W. Goldsmith Proposal for PEO History Project By Ken Reardon
By Ken Reardon On October 15 and 16, 1999, approximately fifty former members of Planners for Equal Opportunity (PEO) gathered for a 25th Reunion Celebration at Pratt Institute’s Manhattan Center. Following a short set of remarks by Lew Lubka and Walter Thabit, the assembled members stood, one by one, to describe their involvement in PEO […]
by William W. Goldsmith In December 1999, seven PNers went to Porto Alegre and São Paulo, Brazil for nine days of conferences, meetings, and tours to exchange information about progressive alternatives for local government. In Porto Alegre, we made presentations at a three-day seminar hosted by the government of Porto Alegre, known for its pioneering […]
Could it be urban policy time again? As Bush and Gore square off, is there a chance the idea of having a national policy governing urban development ð something most other industrialized nations have could catch their attention? Election 2000 has brought a few pleasant surprises. Republicans are throwing mud at each other over […]
January/February 2000 Self Determination and Planning Selected Feature The Seventh Generation By Eve Baron Self Determination and Planning by Eve Baron Indigenous Planning and Tribal Community Development by Ted Jojola São Paulo Squat by Barbara Lynch
By Barbara Lynch A highlight of the Planner’s Network trip to Brazil was our December 11 visit to a squat on a lively commercial street in São Paulo’s downtown, close to the streets where mass demonstrations assembled in the 1980s to help bring down the military government. The squat is just one Brazilian manifestation of a […]
by Ted Jojola What we ask of America is not charity, not paternalism, even when benevolent. We ask only that the nature of our situation be recognized and made the basis of policy and action. ›Declaration of Indian Purpose, American Indian Chicago Conference, June 20, 1961. Origins Nearly two generations have passed since the convocation […]
by Eve Baron During the winter of 1990 an Associated Press photograph of a young Mohawk man dressed in camouflage fatigues appeared in the New York Times. He was on his belly commando-style, brandishing an assault rifle at some unseen target. The obvious association was war, and observers of the incidents that took place on […]
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