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By Eve Baron Native Americans have been in the news quite a bit in the last few years›striking it rich with casinos; making hefty political campaign contributions; prompting inquiries into the affairs of cabinet members; bringing Las Vegas to its knees; striking fear into the hearts of upstate New York property owners; opening luxury resorts. […]
Selected Feature How Smarth Growth Can Save Growth By Tom Angotti Oregon: Where’s the Growth Control? by Kevin Adams Who Benefits From Smart Growth? By Faisal Roble
By Faisal Roble Politicians all over are hawking smart growth as a formula for enlightened urban development. They include everyone from President Clinton and Vice-President Gore to Mayors in Oregon and Texas. The smart growth movement endorses development strategies that may one day replace such popular post-war approaches as urban renewal, community development, enterprise zones, […]
by Kevin Adams In September of 1998 I had a wonderful opportunity to serve another year in AmeriCorps National Service (“domestic Peace Corps”). The Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) Program provided me a great opportunity to work as an assistant planner in Talent for one year and learn firsthand one of the best land […]
By Tom Angotti I saw Lewis Mumford the other day. He was the beneficiary of a technological revolution in embalming (how ironic, he so distrusted technological revolutions). He said he heard all the chatter about Smart Growth and Growth Control and thought he was being summoned. He said he expected that some day the world would […]
Selected Feature The Growth Machine Goes to the Inner City By Dwayne Wyatt The Seventh Generation: Alternatives to the Growth Machine By Dick Platkin and Ben Rosenbloom, Guest Editors The Auto Drives the Growth Machine By Aaron Golub Profit Drives the Growth Machine By Rodney D. Green Building New Identities: Book Review By Catherine Diaz
By Catherine Diaz Possible Urban Worlds: Urban Strategies at the End of the 20th Century Edited by Richard Wolff, Andreas Schneider, Christian Schmid, Philip Klaus, Andreas Hofer, and Hansruedi Hitz. 1998. Available from Birkhauser Verlag, PO Box 133, CH-40010, Basel, Switzerland. The end of the 20th Century has both real and symbolic connotations for almost […]
By Rodney D. Green Profit maximization is at the heart of the Growth Machine. But the Growth Machine isn’t strictly a local or regional phenomenon, as suggested by urban planners who rely on the Growth Machine model. It operates according to the global imperatives of capitalism. The Urban Growth Machine merely reflects the current operation […]
By Aaron Golub Nothing defines and shapes post-war urban transportation in the United States more than the automobile. The strong links between transportation, land use, and urban development affect nearly every aspect of the urban environment. Planners now find that providing for the circulation and storage of automobiles is an integral part of their jobs. […]
By Dick Platkin and Ben Rosenbloom, Guest Editors This issue of Planners Network is on the Urban Growth Machine, a popular model for understanding the development of land under capitalism. As presented by William Fulton in The Reluctant Metropolis, the growth machine is a cabal of lenders, local boosters, newspaper editors, home builders, contractors, construction unions, Democratic […]
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