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...ral State in Planning” 2020 webinar, featuring Deshonay Dozier, Courtney Knapp, Silky Shah and Sheryl-Ann Simpson and moderated by Annette Koh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi7mZjbO2MA Ear to the Pavement Podcasts: Podcast Interview with Rob Robinson “Take Back the Land beat Bank of…
...ing jobs in their field. Check back periodically at the 2010 conference website, http://www.caps-aceau.org, for updates. L’Urbanisme Progressif Un Processus en Évolution? Le Congrès CAPS-ACÉAU 2010 Guelph, Ontario, du 4 au 6 février 2010 L’Association canadienne des étudiants en aménagement…
...to enhance efficiency, rehabilitation and preservation, was, and still is, appealing. A Democratic administration, with a highly regarded HUD secretary, is initially given the benefit of the doubt by many. But as housing advocates, policy analysts and tenant organizers have…
...e. (They can be seen and sorted in the “Idea Gallery” of the Imagine NY website, www.imagineny.org.) The ideas were reviewed and categorized by the Imagine NY Steering Committee. The Steering Committee also developed preliminary drafts of the forty-nine vision…
...“Pedestrian Facilities Users Guide” and the “Bicycle Lane Design Guide” at www.pedbikeinfo.org.) One approach is to construct sidewalks and bike lanes opportunistically–say, when streets are being paved or sewers redone. Note that in many communities health officers review all development…
...income housing units. For the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the CNU’s approach is a means to reduce the concentration of poverty: transforming “the projects” into communities will encourage higher-income working families to live in redeveloped sites. But…
...es for smaller commercial and light industrial uses at the east end of the site, accommodating many of the existing businesses. While the third objective of the CAI was the “social and economic participation of core area residents in development…
...re, including the “inalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” as our Declaration of Independence has it. That is the ultimate purpose of public ownership. It is not the purpose for which private owners own and manage…
...leave. Road block protests prevent vehicles from entering the construction site. Source: http://www.rioonwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/17003372271_ff7acd8909_o.jpg Residents of Horto, a more than 200-year-old community located next to the Botanical Gardens in Rio’s South Zone, have been struggling against eviction in a drawn out…
...substantial difference is that the home in the white neighborhood is worth approximately $150,000 while the home in the black neighborhood is worth approximately $90,000. The estimated repair cost for each of the homes is approximately $150,000. The homeowner in…
...om the charrette and notes from the stakeholder meetings were added to the site regularly, and the site’s interactive tools offered people a chance to participate on their own time. Although few people in this neighborhood have internet access at…
...y, the state, and the public all have substantial leverage to affect what happens, and the Port Authority itself is a creature of other entities that can effectively control what happens. There is a need for a fully transparent planning…
...pter Google group – plannersNetworkNYC@googlegroups.com Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/PlannersNetworkNYC/ & http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5875871261 Twitter: @NYCPlanners / Instagram: @plannersnetworknyc University of Maryland Chapter Carter Reitman – cartert(dot)reitman(at)gmail.com Illinois Chapter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Ken Salo – kensalo(at)illinois(dot)edu Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/36505585...
...e buildings and declared them structurally sound, and architecture critics applaud their garden style. Still, HUD plows ahead, planning to spend tens of millions of Katrina dollars to tear down millions of dollars of habitable housing only to end up…
...land from local residents. In 1951, plans to build a new city hall on the site were added, and by the mid-1950s, two-thirds of the area had been demolished to make way for development. By the end of the 1960s,…
...dential vacancy rate of only 2.9 percent. Monthly apartment rents near the Hudson Yards site are already $400 above the city average. The city’s plan does not include any proposals to provide affordable housing to working people with modest incomes.…
...senior urban designers to produce 2D and 3D plans and graphics, including site analysis, site plans, and concept diagrams Conduct project site visits and collect site/precedent photography. Conducts existing conditions analysis, scale comparisons, and precedent research. Research and analyze zoning…
...to the City Alliance and the Homes For All Campaign. Moderator: Courtney Knapp Courtney Knapp, AICP is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment at the Pratt Institute. Courtney teaches…
...r Education Recruitment Consortium (NorCal HERC). Visit the NorCal HERC website at https://www.hercjobs.org/regions/higher-ed-careers-northern-california/ to search for open positions within a commutable distance of our institution. The University of California offers a competitive benefits package and a number of programs to…
...record of research including publications and/or external funding support appropriate for the level of appointment ability to teach courses that address environmental planning, climate change or resilience ability to teach in the program’s masters-level core courses (e.g., Planning Theory, Research…
...nt leaders was made dramatically clear in the authority’s early 1997 draft application to HUD for the Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program. Since MTW was an open door to federal deregulation, a citywide campaign by several advocacy organizations got…
...s of strategy for progressives concerned about the shortcomings of liberal approaches to problems of social justice. Sometimes confrontation and sharp criticism are appropriate; at other times, cooperation on immediate actions, even if with different long-term perspectives, is productive. On…
...ned in the city as of mid-2006, however, exceeded expectations. The NTI website boasts that since the year 2000, the average home in the city has appreciated 30 percent. Politicians give much of the credit to NTI. Clearly, the national…
...ntinue to strengthen its publications, online and in-print. This can only happen if we alter our conception of what membership means. We must see that the authority conferred by membership also gives each of us the responsibility of reporting back…
...decisions need to be made on any project and for several, those regarding site plans and dwelling plans, local participant feedback is critical. The decisions around these can be characterized as “casting the die” or creating the fundamental “DNA” of…
...ontext of a market-based model while deaccessioning some scattered housing sites. While NTI has offered more land to Las Parcelas for garden development, PHA’s plans for its parcel are still undetermined. The fate of an individual piece of land rests…
...eighborhood leaders pursuing urban agriculture as an “import substitution” approach to local economic development and civic leaders seeking to address the devastating impacts of uncontrolled sprawl. Other site visits examined Ithaca’s recently launched participatory neighborhood planning program, the commercial revitalization…
...Rio’s rich end up with the lion’s share? Theresa Williamson holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and is founder and executive director of Catalytic Communities (www.catcomm.org), a Rio de Janeiro-based NGO. Follow the…
...hool of Planning, Dalhousie University, and Halifax, please go to these websites: https://www.dal.ca/faculty/architecture-planning/school-of-planning.html https://www.dal.ca/ https://www.halifax.ca/ Candidates should provide statements of their teaching and research interests, examples of peer reviewed published work, a curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information…
...s sabbatical year is doing research and writing about urban enclaves and urban agriculture. For more information about the issue raised here, see: www.bimkom.org;www.icahd.org; www.stopthewall.org; www.btselem.org....
...going Debate Over Privatization of Public Housing: National Association of HUD Tenants Comments on Draft Ellison PETRA Bill by National Association of HUD Tenants Transit-Oriented Development and Communities of Color: A Field Report by Gen Fujioka A Manifesto for Progressive…
...ts to help middle and lower class families purchase homes, and encouraging HUD to speed up conversion of publicly subsidized projects to cooperative housing. The first two programs have the advantage of appealing to real estate developers and the construction…
...we’re really talking about here is a culturally constructed definition of appropriate family composition and the apportioning of domestic space masquerading as a neutral, and even healthy and necessary, social policy – a social policy which can only have a…
...ity bus tour that was part of the 6 th LA Freewaves Festival. The tour revisited the history of public housing in Los Angeles, including Chavez Ravine. Everyone Is an Artist Residents were involved in a number of ways, lending…
...emain. If recent efforts to desegregate the nation’s neighborhoods have disappointed, new and better approaches are required. If integration does not “work,” as some critics claim, it may well be because it has never really been tried, as most fair…
...ratic” politicians and were even depicted as kind parents of children they appropriated after disappearing their biological parents. But only a few faces were known. Escraches tore off the shield of anonymity behind which hundreds of torturers hid. Through these…
...lized in a manner that reflects Latino, Asian, African and Native American approaches to pattern design. Converting an Abandoned Site into a Culturally Diverse, Low-Income Housing Project The second case is a community-based effort in the 1990s to redevelop a…
...more popular medium to communicate, I’ve found an increasing number of web sites for organizations involved in planning and gender issues. One of the most interesting sites is the Metro Action Committee on Public Violence, METRAC. METRAC is a community…
...in the year 2000 the number was closer to two per month. (See the NTAC web site at and the site called “Remembering Our Dead” at www.gender.org/remember.) Throughout history and in many cultures transgendered people have played visible and useful…
...ritten by Lewis Mumford in The City in History (1961, pp. 563-564): Let me approach the more abstract relations of the invisible city by drawing a parallel to the new relation on a more visible plane: a small but accurate…
...y to learn UNM’s software and asset management systems. Experience in the field of planning for educational communities. Apply Here: https://www.click2apply.net/V7DaodhEX8OXTn1Gfb4y7 PI159920273 ...
...le of private interests in the funding priorities of the Parks Department. Apparently unhappy about the slow pace of a $19 million pet project to install irrigation systems under city golf courses, the mayor appointed pro-shop manager Richard McDonough to…
...al Pulse of a New York City Neighborhood (10 th Grade). Using a multimedia approach that includes novels, short stories, poetry, film, photography and site visits, this unit acquaints students with the “social” anatomy of a New York City neighborhood…
...ligations please visit the accessibility and Human Rights websites. How to Apply Applicants must submit their application online via the Faculty Recruitment Portal (click on “Start Application Process” to begin) by January 25, 2021. The application must contain the following:…
...with “business-friendly” planning departments dedicated to the expeditious approval of permits for private real estate development. In combination, these neoliberal changes at all levels of government have led to such futile neoliberal urban programs as: Congestion management through highway pricing…
...ilson@cpshr.us Recruitment Brochure: https://executivesearch.cpshr.us/flyer?file=APPROVEDCityofAuroraMPPDC.pdf City of Aurora website: https://www.auroragov.org...
...pation (783 KB) For more information see the Planners Network Manitoba web site: www.pnmb.ca Older Conferences May 30-June 2, 2007, New Orleans, LA Race, Class and Community Recovery: From the Neighborhood to the Nation and Beyond June 8-11, 2006, Chicago,…
...pian visions in the context of social-spatial (trans)formations. We invite applicants from all countries and backgrounds. Application: Please note that spaces are limited. To apply, please e-mail the following supporting documents, as a single PDF and no later than Monday,…
...anning specialization. The university (www.illinois.edu) and departmental (www.urban.illinois.edu) web sites offer additional information. https://jobs.illinois.edu/academic-job-board/job-details?jobID=104041…-assistant-professor-department-of-urban-and-regional-planning-104041 Page 1 of 2 Job Details: College of Fine + Applied Arts: Assistant Professor – Department of Urban and Regional Planning (104041) 10/2/18, 10(08 AM Apply…
...become a training ground for the next generation of activist planners. For additional information on each of these projects, see: UCLA Community Scholars: www.sppsr.ucla.edu SPARC: www.sparcindia.org The Huairou Commission: www.huairou.org...
...orld, planners can work to prevent its sequel. Michael Dudley is at the Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg. For more information on the Detroit Project, visit www.detroitproject.com. For more information on the Project for the New American Century,…
...Harlem Environmental Action: www.weact.org Transportation Equity Network: www.transportationequity.org Labor/Community Strategy Center: www.thestrategycenter.org Interfaith Federation Challenges an MPO: Linking Metropolitan Equity & Environmental Justice The Interfaith Federation is a multiracial, church-based metropolitan organizing group in the northwest corner of Indiana. Less…
...itions: PENGON, the Palestinian Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations Network (www.pengon.org) Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (www.icahd.org) The Rebuilding Alliance (www.rebuildingalliance.org)...
...global economy has only enhanced this advantage, since El Alto is also the site of La Paz’s international airport. Road blockades during the Gas Wars, for example, effectively cut off La Paz from the rest of the world. Autonomous organization.…
...rst acts as Speaker was to eliminate funds for these causes. How did this happen? It happened by concentrating Black and Latino voters in districts where they represent the majority of the population. This meant that the other districts in…
...000 a year. In May 2004, testifying before Congress to justify these cuts, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson claimed that “being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.” This comment infuriated several members of the Committee, including Michael Capuano…
...shift towards regionalism is reinforced by progressive initiatives such as HUD’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program and California’s greenhouse gas reduction legislation (SB 375), each giving MPOs more influence over local processes. But MPOs are more insulated than city…
...a lawsuit against the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to ensure that HUD property was inspected, and if necessary, cleaned of all offending lead. Over the next two decades, groups identified myriad other urban environmental issues and…
...d displaced working-class communities of color. The rhetoric coming out of HUD today suggests more of the same. The agency favors supporting the floundering markets, improving management and greening new development, while programs to help those in greatest need, low-income…
...pe for Gore? We cam give the Clinton-Gore Administration credit for saving HUD from extinction, acknowledging environmental justice as a legitimate concern, and withstanding some strong attacks on the by now severely limited role of the federal government in urban…
...administration continues to prioritize rebuilding Iraq while underfunding HUD. And it appears likely that Bush will attempt once again to revive the “faith-based initiative,” despite difficulties faced in launching it four years ago. We all know it is not realistic…
...ents illegally entered the St. Bernard housing project—closed and gated by HUD since Katrina—to clean the mildly damaged apartments and restore them as decent affordable housing. HUD officials stood by helplessly as dozens of residents stormed the gates and began…
...sing and Urban Development’s (HUD) HOPE VI program exemplifies this latter approach. It is interesting to note that CNU’s founders (who remain its leaders today) share certain characteristics–their ages narrowly range between forty-five and fifty-five, all are white and nearly…
...Her dissertation,Planning and Women, Women in Planning (1980), funded by a HUD grant, provided a critique of “the relationship between the planning profession’s impact on women planners and women planners’ impact on the profession and its products.” She has continued…
...rty’s reinvention of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the efforts made to demolish public housing units, mix incomes, and raise rents: First, question local housing authority assumptions about demolitions that are based on physical surveys…
...suggest a theoretical framework, grounded in a progressive planning theory appropriate to the mission of Planners Network, by which the answers might be approached, and then to suggest some possibilities for their practical interpretation in the New Orleans context. *…
...lyst Senior Employer’s Name: City of Austin, Housing and Planning Department Job Location: Austin, Texas Job description: This position will serve as the single point of contact in the preparation and planning of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban…
...nts and a unionized workforce. Sunset Park has emerged as a key production site in New York City’s apparel industry. Since the early 1980s, a growing segment of Sunset Park’s neighborhood economy has been fueled by small Asian and Latino…
...r capitalism; they run contrary to the need to maximize profit. Third, the site-specific liberal approaches do not make major contributions to housing affordability, racial and economic integration, or public sector investments in long-neglected communities. Instead, they make large, new…
...r city needs. The city also turned down a five-star hotel proposed for the site of a de-commissioned power plant, preferring to use the well-situated site as a public park, convention hall and public symbol of the city. And faced…
...aw as a sign of deep equality. Among the squatters, some of African origin appeared to have noticed and started talking to me, appreciative that I had eaten with them. I didn’t ask anyone where they came. When they talked…
...houses? GLBT Landmarks Beyond the homes of notable individuals, there are sites associated with the GLBT movement that merit landmark designation. Recent scholarship has documented the history of the movement, but the need remains to link that history to historic…
...cheduling, temporary relocation (if necessary) and execution Visit project sites as necessary to track progress of work and to ensure projects are on schedule Prepare payment applications, draw requests, and change orders and work closely with bookkeeper and accountant to…
...anyway), nor with even more beefed up security. What should be done at the site should not reflect the arrogance of power, but rather the resilience of continued and vibrant life and also very clearly the sorrow of their history…
...as already arisen about the wisdom of rebuilding on the World Trade Center site. Should federal, state and city governments invest extremely large sums to restore the infrastructure and density at the southern tip of Manhattan when the limited resources…
...ay repairs, for instance), streamlining should be on a case by case basis, approved by the City council and mayor, not by revisions of long-standing procedures. Position seven: The city has a City Planning Commission. It needs to be strengthened…
...rse Communities? To date, most public health research assumes a “barriers” approach to understanding active living in diverse communities. This approach assumes a shared definition of active living, and presumes that characteristics of individuals, groups and environments function to limit…
...rates as a local amenity, it makes little use of a spectacular waterfront site and alternative uses would be much more appealing. Others, many others, object to its costs. There is a complex financing plan developed by Dan Doctoroff in…
...oric subjects of Mexican Lynwood inhabit a place that has become a tourist site (i.e., they are not recognized as worthy of visiting an ethnic enclave), nor do they have the choice—because of legal or economic constrains—of visiting the homeland.…
...f the Elders’ stories and bring new depth to peoples’ understanding of the site and the spirit of the place. 4. Economic and Social Development Municipalities should work closely with Aboriginal communities to ensure that culturally appropriate policing and community…
...liabilities, could be used as advantages. Second, we wanted an integrative approach, where more than one issue could be addressed on one site. Third, as architects we wanted to develop paradigms of new development which would complement and reenforce instead…
...w development. The City’s goal was to maximize the size of the development sites. Nos Quedamos approached the plan from the perspective that the basic building block for redevelopment is not the physical structures but rather the people who live…
...rmation about PN here: www.plannersnetwork.org From the Planners Network site: Planners Network is an association of progressive planning. Our members are professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas.…
...ion of urban ecosystems. This position works collaboratively with the Program Director and Senior Project Manager. More information at: https://www.scenichudson.org/news/jobs/urban-planner-project-manager/...
...persons with disabilities. The Affirmative Action program can be found at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs? or by calling the AA line at 416-736-5713. Applicants wishing to self-identify as part of York University’s Affirmative Action program can do so by downloading, completing and submitting…
...lus for diesels is this: they’ll run on vegetable oil, and run quite well, apparently. Something to think about when petroleum runs out. Hybrids Ah, the motorized comfort food of the auto industry, a sort of four-wheeled chicken pot pie.…
...diately after President Clinton announced the bombing of Iraq, Mother Joneswww.mojones.com called Boston University historian Howard Zinn and asked for his take. After a few minutes, he sent this forceful accusation.] President Clinton has just told another lie, this time…
...led information. For your convenience, a few of these are listed below. Websites Metro Portland, Oregon http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/metro/ Regional Plan Association New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Metropolitan Area http://www.rpa.org The Metropolitan Council Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota Metro / City of Toronto Toronto,…
...eview and analysis. Demonstrates the ability to understand, interpret, and apply city codes and ordinances, Federal and State rules, regulations, and guidelines as applied to architectural, zoning and general plan requirements, including CEQA and NEPA. Has the ability to explain…
...Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more information about the University of Wisconsin Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, visitwww.wisc.edu/cias, and the non-profit REAP Food Group, visitwww.reapfoodgroup.org....
...rhoods. Examples of recent community planning efforts can be found at both www.envisionhilltop.com and www.ourlinden.com. What you’ll do The ideal candidate will possess a broad range of planning experience coupled with excellent public speaking, research and community engagement skills. Specific…
...eers/oaklandca?keywords=Planner For more information contact: Deborah Gutman CPS HR Consulting (916) 471-3364 City of Oakland website: https://www.oaklandca.gov...
...link below to see a video on what it’s like to work for the City of Oakland! Working for the City of Oakland City of Oakland website: https://www.oaklandca.gov...
...2022 More details and application instructions can be found here: https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/about/jobs/tenure-track-appointments/2022/assistant-professor-urban-planning-for-sustainable-and-resilient-cities.html Poste au rang de professeur adjoint en urbanisme axé sur les villes durables et résilientes Le Département de géographie, urbanisme et environnement est à la recherche de candidates et…
...applicants are required to submit a City application, cover letter and resume using the online employment application system. This application can be accessed from the City’s website at www.cityofhesperia.us. City of Hesperia o 9700 Seventh Avenue o Hesperia, CA 92345…
...utman@cpshr.us Click on the link below to see a video on what it’s like to work for the City of Oakland! Working for the City of Oakland City of Oakland website: https://www.oaklandca.gov The City of Oakland is an equal opportunity…
...Be The First Bantustan? The siege of Gaza is bad enough in itself, but it appears to be Israel’s test case for a two-state solution that would produce a string of Palestinian urban prisons with the formal trappings of a…
...imum of two (2) years. To be considered for this position, candidates must apply online at: https://www.austincityjobs.org/postings/89841 Please review additional postings with Austin Transportation. The City of Austin has excellent benefits and provides an exceptional retirement system as well as…
...me in the email subject line. Label your file(s) as LASTNAME_freecity. Website: https://free-city.ca/ Facebook (very much so a work in progress): https://www.facebook.com/freecitymagazine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freecityzine/...
...rban Change (EUC), York University, invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a professorial stream tenure-track appointment in Black Studies in Geography and Environment at the Assistant Professor level, to commence July 1, 2021. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications…