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...mismos ideales de justicia para todos que defendieron sus hijos, surgió en el seno de las Madres. Decidieron, primero, instalar una Universidad Popular, para formar graduados imbuídos de la necesidad de afirmar, en toda circunstancia, la vigencia plena de los…
...ublic activity, the group was crucial in resetting the boundaries of political spaces in Buenos Aires. By conquering and remapping urban territories, both physical and metaphorical, it shaped the style and the scope of human rights activism. Over the last…
...eople. Planning students are taught how to wield the most up-to-date technical tools, but frequently they are not taught how to work with people in a way that puts the power to make decisions into the hands of the people…
...oughout the nation and world people are facing powerful economic and political forces that lead to evictions from their homes and displacement from their communities. In response, people are organizing, resisting, and developing their own plans and policies as alternatives.…
...king knowledge of French. Work or research collaboration experience with local government planning agencies in Canada is an asset. The incumbent will be expected to join Concordia’s Next Generation Cities Institute (NGCI). A PhD in Urban Planning, Geography, or in…
...looks a lot like the rest of the world. The balance of economic and political power still rests with the minority of European descent who keep a tight grip on the reins. Bloomberg’s Master Plans Michael Bloomberg, Gotham ’s billionaire…
...ore, some members of these two professions have sought to build an ideological and methodological basis for guiding these professions so that they are at least more self-conscious about when their seemingly neutral, professionally-derived beliefs, or seemingly innocent, artistically-derived beliefs,…
...cause asthma attacks. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2001 found that acute asthma care events for children–those that required hospitalization–dropped by 41.6 percent in Atlanta when the city banned many passenger cars from…
...the national debates on Smart Growth? New York City is one of the most densely populated cities in the country and Wall Street has a very dense daytime population. Federal policy for the last half century has favored low-density, sprawled…
...ted officials who would move traffic at all costs. Too many planners and local governments in the United States are as car crazy as the American Automobile Association. They foster auto-dependent development by requiring excess roadways and parking and ignoring…
...ects Under Obama Right to the City Builds Alliance, Confronts Mayors by Jacqueline Leavitt Urban Prospects in the Age of Obama by Dick Platkin Will the Obama Administration Cut the Racial Trip Wire? by Bill Fletcher, JR How Segregation Drives…
...gh East St. Louis on the south side of a major interstate which has historically divided the city. Residents of the East St. Louis neighborhood of Emerson Park first learned through an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that one…
...t for Tenement Rehabilitation (Proyecto Integral y Participativo para la Recalificacion del Cortiço) invaded this unoccupied office building in December 1998. Until the early 1990s, the building housed the Secretariat of Culture for the State of São Paulo, and its…
...its 1959 revolution, Cuba’s variety of socialism has featured both large-scale planning (physical, economic, social) and massive popular participation through active mass organizations and frequent mobilizations. Participatory planning, however, has remained more elusive. Experiments in participatory planning finally began to…
...tes who resent the increasing presence of working females in public spaces call these womenmaquilocas, meaning flirtatious women who work in maquiladoras Race and Class of the Femicide It is not difficult to infer the class and racial implications of…
...s promise to deliver low-cost housing to their constituencies. As befits a self-proclaimed “government of the social movements,” the MAS has articulated a strong commitment to a progressive, non-market vision of social housing, epitomized by the slogan: Vivienda Digna Para…
...ve planning for community development–a planning practice that I sometimes call transformative community planning. I see real community development as combining material development with the development of people. Real development, as I understand it, necessarily involves increasing a community’s capacity…