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...estaban y se los reintegre a la sociedad. Eran militantes políticos y sociales capturados por miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas en la larga noche de la sangrienta represión de la Dictadura, de quienes no se conocía si estaban vivos y…
...chard Platkin The Los Angeles Times (March 1 and March 14, 2010), Southern California’s rapidly shrinking, former newspaper of record, repeatedly complains that Los Angeles’s elected officials, primarily Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the fifteen members of the Los Angeles City…
...dministration, through its Sustainable Communities Initiative, state and local agencies and progressive think-tanks all emphasize TOD as a means to achieve housing, transportation and environmental goals, often through public-private partnerships. But as TOD has been justifiably promoted as the cleaner…
...ame a hot topic. But soon the plight of America’s cities returned to political obscurity. Urban Policy on the Margins Today, more than four years after the L.A. riots, our urban crisis remains marginal to the political debate in this…
...terests receive little attention. This article will also examine a program called City of Lights, which aims to bring invisible cyclists out of the shadows using a combination of self-empowerment training and advocacy work. We found City of Lights to…
...obile is a commodity, and its production and sale are motivated and historically constrained by the social and economic framework of the capitalist order. The economy in the United States changed into a form of monopoly capitalism with the post-Depression…
...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…
...dable housing and tenants–rights based agency. You will have strong analytical approach to shape and carry forward our policy advocacy. Ideally, you would bring your experience in affordable housing and land use organizing, policy and practice (ideally in San Francisco…
...ity residents. And the costs are falling on urban taxpayers, making the fiscal crisis worse. For the first time since the rebellions of the 1960s, corporate investment is flowing into Harlem. So far $550 million has been committed from the…
..., the neighborhood in which the park is located is the poorest in Southern California and the densest west of Manhattan. The park is also at the center of a thriving Central American community, the residents of which began arriving…
...e globe at lightning speed, beyond the pale of government regulation and local activists. They’re closing factories, downsizing, and abandoning workers and their communities in the North; they pillage and pollute in the South. They seem to be accountable to…
...eptional benefits package. Job Description Summary The Enterprise Northern California office is seeking a Program Officer to join our dynamic Building Sustainable Communities team, working to address the interlocking housing and climate change crises through the creation of sustainable, affordable…
...of quantitative and geospatial methods to evaluate how changes in the physical, social, economic, and environmental conditions may impact health outcomes. Other responsibilities include preparing equity analyses that address community health and the built environment and preparing policy recommendations. Experience…
...Agency: County of San Bernardino Location: San Bernardino, CA Position: Assistant Director of Land Use Services & Planning Director Assistant Director of Land Use Services Annual Salary: $137,425 – $197,204 DOE/DOQ Planning Director Annual Salary: $131,123 – $187,907 DOE/DOQ Closing…
...diversity of ethnicity, class, language and religion, there is an ideological unity of patriarchy, of female subordination and dependence. Yet, there is also a vibrant living tradition of female economic autonomy, of female headed households, and family structures in which…
...s of affluence that had formed during the 1980s and reframing the central scale of social struggle from the global to the urban. RTTC is one of the first mass formations to emerge from the previous era of sustained anti-globalization…
...using, gender, labor and community development. Leavitt received her political science degree from Pennsylvania State University (1961) and both her master’s degree (1965) and Ph.D. (1980) in urban planning from Columbia University. Even though s Leavitt he was interested in…
...ies, from depots to highways, can be just as threatening to health as chemical plants and incinerators. In response to the inequities in transportation planning, most would agree that an equitable transportation system should: Ensure opportunities for meaningful public involvement…
...s? In facing these questions, there will be a strong draw toward technological fixes for the security problem: more sophisticated surveillance of public places by video cameras, more metal detectors, more barriers. By themselves, these do not make public places…
...other members of Enterprise’s team, the Program Officer will deliver technical assistance (TA) to affordable housing developers, community-based organizations and public agencies in Northern CA. S/he will report to our statewide AHSC Director, and closely coordinate with other members of…
...other team members to facilitate design integration, alignment with technical requirements for all urban design aspects, and community/stakeholder considerations. Key Responsibilities Directs technical aspects and production deliverables of multiple large-scale projects and teams, keeping projects on track and creating success…
...and owned by Korean investors, the shopping mall Plaza Mexico in Southern California embodies a unique case of invention and commodification of traditions for locally-bound immigrants and U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. The Plaza is an architectural recreation of Mexican…
...system by performing an inventory of existing nutritional services, specifically markets and restaurants, and then use that assessment to challenge gaps in the existing system. Community organizations such as churches and social service groups were subsidized to conduct inventories in…
...C) Alliance. RTTC, which promotes a new form of organizing that combines local and national actions around a common framework and commitment to a democratic model of practice, engaged and challenged the mayors to set their priorities straight and use…
...ods have a core and identifiable boundaries. Within these boundaries are local shops, a neighborhood school, library and other community facilities such as health, recreation. The image of a neighborhood’s cohesiveness is augmented by the population density, a network of…
...how and zine exploring struggles for liberation and social justice, both locally and internationally). Stefan is also a founding member of the Howl! arts collective, a CKUT radio host since 2000 and has contributed to publications in Montreal and around…
...Politics, with a focus on Community Organizing, Labor Studies, Urban Political Economy, and/or Public Policy. The position will begin August 2023. We are interested in candidates who understand urban and environmental problems as deeply linked, and whose research and teaching…
...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…
...alary rate with modified benefits, including: Use of increased pay rate to calculate County contributions to RMT, 401(k), and 457(b) plans, leave cash outs, and retirement contribution rate. Work Schedule: Flexible 9/80 and remote work schedule. HOW TO APPLY: For…
...tranquilizing many community activists, non-profits and well-intentioned local officials into passivity at a time when the political energies of these groups are desperately needed to press for a progressive urban agenda in Washington. Some of these potential advocates view the…
...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…
...is in the making, targeting immigrant communities of Latino origin, specifically of Mexican origin. Between 2005 and 2007, California cities such as Escondido, Costa Mesa and Newport have used city planning tools to control immigration within city boundaries based on…
...ountless racial, ethnic, and linguistic communities. Although it is historically associated with gang violence and, more recently, with clashes between police and demonstrators, the park has become an incubator for some of LA’s most innovative and successful social justice initiatives.…
...te answer is no. Minority and low-income populations not only are systematically denied that fair share, but often end up worse off for the expenditure of large sums on transportation improvements in their communities. In California, bus riders have added…
...n in The Reluctant Metropolis, the growth machine is a cabal of lenders, local boosters, newspaper editors, home builders, contractors, construction unions, Democratic party officials, and public agency managers who work in concert to promote continued suburban and urban real…
...2004 Conference, talked about breaking down walls by building bridges at local, national and international levels. Jackie Leavitt, professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, runs the Community Scholars program and works with community/labor coalitions. Sheela…
...o question the essential relationships on which the system is based. The focal point of these cultural campaigns is the evolution of political conviction into artistic actions and vice versa. We will present cultural performances as political actions because everyone…
...only if they fight effectively. The living-wage movement has been strategically astute since its inception. It has emerged primarily at the level of municipal politics because organizers correctly assessed that their efforts have a greater chance of success when they…
...ivities, added no funds for these worthy, though band-aid, efforts, simply calling for redirection of existing moneys. Indeed, thanks to his $1.3 trillion tax cuts, mostly for the wealthy, Bush made it impossible for Washington to provide any significant aid…
...serve Fourteen Years of Backbreaking Work in Reclaiming Vacant Land” or “Local Residents Strive to Preserve Social Capital: Fourteen Years of Community Building Gives Way to a Warehouse.” He does, however unintentionally, bring attention to the two biggest problems facing…
...if not the outside world. Movement spokesperson Subcomandante Marcos, now calling himself Delegate Zero, is touring the country to campaign against all of the candidates in this year’s Mexican elections and in favor of a grassroots left movement to transform…
...” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has partnered with state and local law enforcement agencies to deploy military-based intelligence systems in cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The continued integration of federal security policies within…
...tz Kay, in Asphalt Nation, where she shows the environmental, social, physical, economic, and aesthetic damage inflicted on America by its love affair with the automobile. A love affair, she points out, that has more to do with government aphrodisiacs…
...ver the next decade or so to counter the projected energy crunch in electrical generation and it looks like someone’s going to have to do without. And that someone is us. If, instead, the hydrogen for all of these new…
...idea that “good” urban design will positively contribute to levels of physical activity. The enthusiasm demonstrated by such perspectives is refreshing; most agree it is critically important to support planning efforts that make physical activity and “active travel” easy, available…
...d demand for regionally produced fruits and vegetables, grown either organically or on transitional land in the process of becoming organic. Starting from this small base, according to Hal Hamilton in Yes Magazine, “it will take years of mind-boggling growth…
...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 social roles. In the aftermath…
...oundaries of traditional professional design practice to make use of political, communication, financial and other skills, as well as those of the design arts to, in partnership with their clients, change the world. Despite their many differences, community design centers…
...n the staff of the National Housing Law Project (then part of the Univ. of California Berkeley Law School, later to go independent), dealing with a range of housing justice issues. So in 1974 I contacted about three dozen planner…
...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…
...risons, implementation of police and surveillance through virtual and physical border walls. Cities with budgets, big and small, plan their jails, police and surveillance techniques as connected to how neighborhoods are planned (see Jack Norton’s work). What does this mean…
...was held at the University of Rochester in New York on June 21-24. Nine local colleges and universities and the City of Rochester joined Planners Network in hosting the conference. The primary focus of the conference was the critical role…
...hose yet to return—have waited in vain for leadership and resources from local, state and federal sources. In the face of such neglect, and united with a determination to rebuild their lives and communities, many residents and grassroots organizations have…
...ons opposing a preemptive or unilateral war in Iraq. This groundswell of local civic expression runs directly counter to claims by the Bush administration and members of Congress that they continue to have the support of the great majority of…
...vely inside and outside academia and government to promote the highest ethical standards for the profession. He has also been a consistent advocate for social justice. The following review of Peter’s scholarship, teaching excellence and service in the field of…
...with communities. My work in the environmental justice arena and at the local level on environmental issues informs not only the way I see the planning profession going, but the progressive movement as a whole. The environmental justice movement transcends…
...ge those changes. We are currently in the midst of a new wave of technological change that started in earnest in the 1970s with the invention of microprocessors, microcomputers, fiber optics, the fledgling internet, and in a related move, genetic…
...r cities, made worse in recent years by the loss of jobs through technological change, downsizing, and capital flight. According to the renowned urban sociologist, William J. Wilson, job loss has exacerbated such inner city problems as drugs, gangs, and…
...dscapes of walls and practices of separation, would be consigned to historical memory. Today, however, there is a new generation of fear-driven landscapes, ranging from urban-based, gated communities to borderlands between nation-states, best exemplified by the border fence between the…
...ng to federal guidelines for the use of interstate transportation funds, local counties have to come up with a compromise agreement among themselves before the feds will cut loose with the money, which in this case will total nearly $500…
...The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child By Kim Knowles-Yánez Toronto’s YOUTHLINK Program By Llewellyn Golding The YouthPower Story By Imre Kepes Principles for Young Peoples’ Participation in Planning By Suzanne Speak Regular Section Smart Growth As Trojan…
...ars to be to limit the obstacles posed to motorized traffic flow by specifically targeting pedestrians and cyclists. The alternative but minority view about gridlock lies in reducing the number of cars on the road (in absolute numbers and in…
...without a comprehensive, community-based approach it is just another political line and not the solution for designing livable communities inside the boundary. I was drawn to the concept of urban growth boundaries as a refugee from the East Coast looking…
...worker-centered childcare enterprises, cosponsored the gathering with a local think-tank. CCDI is a driving force behind this unusual organizing campaign, mobilizing employers and employees alike. CCDI is best known for developing worker-owned daycare centers that create better childcare jobs and…
...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…
...dents, professors, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and more. The conference theme called for “Bridging the Gap between Labor and Community,” and the first step in our weekend-long dialogue on that subject had to be figuring out who was present to talk.…
...labor and community at the PN 1999 Conference brings to mind several critical discrepancies between the agendas of these two groups. I see labor and community from the perspective of someone who has worked for affordable housing and community development…
...evelopment law that allowed residents (as well as government) to propose local plans. A neighborhood association in one of the oldest downtown neighborhoods, with advice from the NGOs and from students and professors of the National Mexican University, presented their…
...first level, the idea simply is to put the few hundred North American ‘radical planners’ in regular touch with one another, to share ideas and experiences, discuss their work and lives, develop some sense of community and mutual support.” These…
...ystem. More Congestion, More Pollution As a result, New Yorkers face chronically clogged transportation arteries. Overcrowded transit, congestion on the roads and the concomitant pollution are so ubiquitous that the heavy financial and health toll they take is hardly mentioned…
...a Parisi The Complicated Relationship of Transnational Organizations and Local Popular Movements: Reflections from South Africa by Richard Pithouse Nike Reimagineered: A Case Study Examining Expanded Corporate Planning Capacity by Andrea Marpillero-Colomina Lithium in Bolivia: Achieving Both Sovereignty and Development?…
...s of color reflect everyday life experiences of social, economic and political disenfranchisement. Yet, for the most part, their concerns and perspectives have been marginalized from mainstream discussion about sustainability and the environment. These concerns are with environmental racism, the…
By Leonie Sandercock Twenty something years ago I wrote a book (my first) called Cities for Sale, which opened with the following statement: “This book is about failure. City planning in Australia this century has failed to improve the welfare…
...of the rational, technocratic planner who plugs data into a model that magically analyzes the information and proposes optimal solutions. Planners within a ‘progressive planning’ tradition tend to reject this use of technology, focusing instead on more social or political…
...unity development that makes sense to me, takes a quick look at the historical roots of today’s community-oriented planning, contrasts transformative planning with advocacy planning, and gives a thumbnail sketch of lessons I’ve learned through practice and engagement. The second…
...urse, “Abolitionist Planning in Today’s Political Conjuncture.” In a political moment in which a new state “fully committed to white supremacy, misogyny, and virulent nationalism” is deriving political power through racist sentiments, we sought to invoke abolition in our study…
...y the powers that be. Over 100 years ago, Friedrich Engels quite correctly called planning in capitalist cities “hypocritical,” explaining in his famous study of Manchester how “town planning” was really about “hiding from the eyes of wealthy ladies and…
...tch, however, has broadened the original responsibilities and mandate of local crime prevention to include terrorism detection and prevention. Since its inception, Neighborhood Watch was criticized for encouraging social divisiveness. An evaluation of USAOnWatch suggests that some key elements of…
...andscapes are dotted with low-slung factories that are key employers for local residents. As Toronto’s suburbia developed into a hodgepodge of various housing—apartment towers, townhomes, and single detached houses—the strip mall also emerged, each with its own setback, its own…
...the civil rights, anti-war and new social movements were significant political forces and generated interest in socialism and Marxism. It was not unusual then to contemplate the prospect of planning without private property, even in North America. Marxist analysis was…
...gs, 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 work in participatory budgeting over the last…
...gy Gains APTA College Campuses: Sustainable Transportation Laboratories By Carlos Balsas Following Rosa Parks: Montgomery Bus Riders Organize By Eugene J. Patron Ciudad Viva Fights the Costanera Norte By Patricio Lanfranco Chicago’s Campaign for Better Transit By Patricia Nolan and…
...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…
...ns for lost land, crops, or homes.” The settlements are part of a geopolitical and military strategy to make the formation of a viable Palestinian state impossible. They are usually located near existing Arab towns and villages, often overlooking them.…
...labor may be regaining some of its militance and working together on political strategy. But something’s missing here. The massive presence and unity of labor was sorely missed in recent demonstrations against police brutality and homophobic violence. Some unions have…
...of cities everywhere is being challenged by global restructuring and the escalating marginalization of low-wage workers and minority groups. One of the ways community groups have challenged this process is to reclaim neglected public and private land for communal use.…
...ressive change, it’s a chance to get involved in the discussion and pose real alternatives. And if Pat Buchanan enters the fray, he could use anti-corporate sentiments to pull the debate to the right and there would be no balancing…
...f 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 the closing…
...ore were maimed and wounded. Every family remembers the pain. Many still recall the daily fear of saturation bombing (on Hanoi streets, you can see cemented-over bomb shelters). Sixteen percent of the country’s land area was poisoned by toxic herbicides,…
...r taking control of its own development–building within the community critical thinking and planning abilities, as well as concrete skills, so that development projects and planning processes can be replicated by community members in the future. A good planning project…
...parities in our communities. Located between the San Francisco Bay and the California coastal mountains, and just north of Silicon Valley, Oakland is a thriving and vibrant community of more than 440,000 people with a lively urban-suburban mix that includes…
...monthly E-newsletter, Supporting an online magazine, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives, A discount to the PN Conference, And the opportunity to contribute to a planning organization that consistently promotes economic, social and environmental justice. There are two ways to join: By…
...nity of public stakeholders. Located between the San Francisco Bay and the California coastal mountains, and just north of Silicon Valley, Oakland is a thriving and vibrant community of more than 440,000 people with a lively urban-suburban mix that includes…
...nia Gordon America’s Obesity Epidemic By Thomas L. Halton Engineering Physical Activity Back Into Americans’ Lives By Mark Fenton Designing the Active City: The Case for Multi-Use Paths By Anne Lusk The San Fernando Valley Metro Rapidway By Phil Ganezer…
...recedented mobilization effort. But without continuing vigilance and technical support, public housing tenants will find themselves left out of decisions that directly affect their lives. National Context If the federal devolution of public housing becomes a reality, resident leaders will…
...ing. There is an implicit assumption that, in the face of impending ecological destruction, we’re all in this together. But, as Peter Marcuse argues, we are clearly not all in this together. The costs and benefits of moving toward a…
...action project. Dick Platkin wants PN to support activists and engage critical discussions about capitalism. Gwen Urey says we should keep on networking. Cathy Klump wants PN to do more to support progressive student planners and make planning education more…
...ing the 1960s and 1970s as well as their subsequent professional and political work. These individual reports described how this relatively small group of radical planners had attempted to move national urban policy in the U.S. in a more progressive…
...monthly E-newsletter, Supporting an online magazine, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives, A discount to the PN Conference, And the opportunity to contribute to a planning organization that consistently promotes economic, social and environmental justice. There are two ways to join: By…
...ation and neoliberal restructuring in Venezuela , poverty increased dramatically. The percentage of the population living below the poverty line went from 36 percent in 1984 to 66 percent in 1995. Given these stark disparities, a radical approach like that…