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...6, fue reconocida oficialmente por el gobierno nacional y hoy gradúa especialistas en muy diversas disciplinas, con programas estrechamente vinculados a los principios que siempre defendieron y defienden las Madres. Ese mismo año, el Estado nacional les concedió permiso para…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...this experience for anything. However, my initial impression of the Rogue Valley in August of 1998 was a much different experience. As I crawled off the freeway after a breathtaking five-hour drive to interview for the position the image before…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
..., 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…
...New Yorkers, through the Housing Not Warehousing campaign, are providing real alternatives to private market development, shattering the conventional wisdom that nothing can be done to end homelessness. The Housing Not Warehousing Coalition is creating a Homeless People’s Community Land…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...Beth Maclin At the entrance to the squatter camp sits a bright green chemical toilet, accented with a gray top and door. A narrow lane winds past it to a collapsing building where three young men lean against two pay…
...women started their years-long dharma, or sit-in, in 2002 to prevent the local Coca-Cola bottling plant from stealing and polluting their water. This year, Kerala banned colas, and Coke Pepsi Free Zones are spreading across the country. From Atlanta to…
...experienced in community planning, zoning and urban design, he often gets called on for outreach in minority communities. Clients who have worked with him will call him back for jobs regardless of the neighborhood’s characteristics, but most colleagues in the…
...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…
...t the same time, 70 percent of the world’s water usage goes towards large-scale, heavily subsidized, export-oriented agricultural production. The model of agriculture, water use and privatization of resources promoted through NAFTA and the WTO enables food dumping and increases…
...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…
...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,…
...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…
...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…
...ano Land by Tom Angotti Feature Articles Israel’s Ongoing War Against the Palestinians of Gaza by Marie Kennedy Playas Para Todos: The Struggle for Puerto Rico’s Coast by Katherine T. McCaffrey Urban Prospects Under Obama Right to the City Builds…
...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…
...the social housing concept back to the ayllu, the traditional socio-political organization in Bolivia’s rural indigenous communities, where every family’s right to the land is protected. “We don’t believe in making a market commodity out of Pachamama (Mother Earth),” he…
...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…
...ic elements resembling parts of pyramids, giant temple pillars and a classical Greek façade. One section of the mall is supposed to look like a traditional souk, or Arab marketplace. But unlike the average souk, it is strictly for European…
...pacto del Bombardeo en las Poblaciones Civiles Plan Puebla Panama By Wendy Call Roadmap to Stop the Bulldozers For a More Social World Forum By Theresa Williamson Asian Social Forum By Penelope Duda Water Poverty and Neoliberal Reforms By Larissa…
...n for the city (and untold billions more for private developers), the plan calls for 28 million square feet of Class A office space, 12.6 million square feet of primarily market-rate housing, an extension of the No.7 subway line, a…
Contextualizing Radical Planning: The 1970s Chicano Takeover in Crystal City, Texas by Jonathan Thompson Supporting Resident-Led Revitalization in Librino, Italy by Kenneth Reardon, Filippo Gravagno, and Laura Saija Accommodating Social Diversity in the Gentrified City: Making Space for Families by…
...it 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;…
...e secrets of countless agreements by which multilateral agencies finance local governments that agree to employ strategic planning. Or, he could tell us about the agreements by which many Latin American cities, known for their misery and inequality, spend millions…
...industrial and residential communities, Blacks, Latinos and whites. People called from all over the country and wanted to know more about it. Foundations wanted to know what they could do. The old Red Hook image of a forbidden and forgotten…
...olar orientation, prevailing winds and topography and the development of local capacity for waste elimination through recycling and the use of biodegradable materials. Although this definition is adequate from an environmental perspective, urban conditions demand a more comprehensive approach. Sustainable…
...since 1948. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights John Dugard calls Gaza a prison. All roads and commerce in and out of Gaza are blocked by the Israeli military. Israel’s economic blockade has resulted in an unemployment rate of…
...that terminated in the World Trade Center. Some 220,000 riders used the local lines or buses, some 60,000 the PATH commuter line every day. There is a major subway interchange at Fulton Street, near, but not connected to, the World…
...ssing chapter in the history of “progressive planning,” and to gain a critical understanding of ethnic-centered planning as it was articulated during the early period of the “advocacy” planning paradigm. Among the many missing voices of this period are those…
...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…
...based issues. Though the links between the two fields have developed organically in my own practice, both practices also interlink theoretically. There are obvious points of common ground between the two fields. Both are explicitly progressive, dedicated to undermining inequitable…
...nibus-taxi system that is a source of swelling public complaint. But political transformation in South Africa has opened the door for equitable and sustainable transportation policies. New government policies seek to reverse apartheid policy by dramatically expanding and improving public…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...acebook – https://www.facebook.com/PlannersNetworkDenver/ Greater Delaware Valley Chapter Bob Brand & Bruce Caswell – bob.j.brand(at)gmail(dot)com & caswell(at)rowan(dot)edu Los Angeles Chapter (University of Southern California) Chris Tilly – tilly(at)luskin(dot)ucla(dot)edu New York City Chapter Google group – plannersNetworkNYC@googlegroups.com Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/PlannersNetworkNYC/ & http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58758...
...ife! This was the battle cry for a coalition of labor unions, activists, cocaleros(coca producers), students, professionals, small farmers and community groups that gathered in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia in January of 2000. They organized to take back control…
...by the prime directive of greed. Instead the Olympics are an overly commericalized venture that consistently fails to deliver on its promises of economic development, leaving the host cities and nations with enormous debts and a set of sports facilities…
...forces played no small role, may hint at what lies ahead. Last year an upscale, subterranean Japanese restaurant designed by the Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury opened in Beirut. The underground restaurant is located on the old Green Line, amid heavily…
...k, East Jerusalem and Gaza, planning has been perfected as a tool of political control. Nowhere in the world is planning used with such sophistication to such a single-minded purpose. Because Israel denies having an “occupation” at all–insisting that it…
...dman, Malcolm X, and W.E.B. Du Bois who combined utopian vision with practical proposals to realize that vision inspire us. The Reagan and Clinton Administrations, and neoliberalism generally, have emphasized the paring back of the state and with it the…
...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…
...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…
...ty preservation and development. We oppose the U.S. war in Iraq as a politically unacceptable means of resolving the problem of disarmament and dealing with the despotic regime in Iraq. The Bush administration has turned its back on the United…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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.…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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.…
...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.…
...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…
...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,…
...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…
...sportation Will Result in Environmental and Energy 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…
...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…