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...ular frustration with centralized government has been manipulated by regional elites to fuel the autonomy conflicts that brought the country to the brink of civil war last September. The weakened capacity of public-sector institutions is a legacy of twenty years…
...ntenía apresados. El escenario del reclamo era la Plaza de Mayo, enfrente del Palacio presidencial, en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Una vez a la semana, todos los jueves, un grupo de madres comenzó ese reclamo, desafiando el poder dictatorial…
...a grassroots community organization in the neighboring indigenous city of El Alto. In fact, during the tumultuous “Gas Wars” of 2003-2005, while many groups (including campesinos, coca growers, workers and students) participated in the broad-based social movements that brought down…
...unity planning and suggests some workarounds when circumstances are not ideal. Although this community is in Mexico, the situation wasn’t that different from many we face here—a divided community, no organized community-based group to take the lead, a failing economic…
...al stores, and also the selections, the freshness and quality and the general level of service. Community members inventoried 261 stores in South Los Angeles, Inglewood and North Long Beach (the “target” area), which had, on average, a 47 percent…
...cially now that the femicide has spread to other countries like Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. These countries have also opened their doors to the maquiladoras, and the women murdered have been mostly indigenous women. María Teresa Vázquez-Castillo is an…
...Arabs. GRI and our Palestinian partners, such as the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC), recognize it at its very core to be a conflict over land and water, arising out of the unjust control and distribution of these resources. Existing…
...their beginnings, they created a style aimed at shocking and galvanizing a paralyzed society. This style was marked by a powerful presence in public spaces and the establishment of the Plaza de Mayo (la Plaza) and the streets as their…
...daries based on arguments about securing the border and protecting the fiscal well-being of urban areas. In response, cities such as Los Angeles, Maywood and San Francisco have proclaimed themselves sanctuary cities, safe for immigrants. Background California cities are not…
...ubai, the maximum enclave and theme park of global capitalism. Its monumental malls, skyscrapers and millionaire condos loudly announce this brash newcomer to the global competition for the most ostentatious city in the world. It proves that with enough money…
...new destination for commercial, sports and residential facilities. The legal challenge claimed that the city’s “new aesthetic” excluded the poor and in 1994 Vila Autódromo received title with the right to use the land for forty years. Still, on several…
...overage, posters and flyers. A public service announcement was run on several television stations and on the “jumbotron” screen in Times Square. The workshops and over 700 web and mail-in entries generated a total of 19,000 ideas. The forty-nine vision…
...e war to derail the orthodox economic policies adopted by Bolivia’s political elites. Yet six years after the Water War, Cochabamba is still searching for alternatives that will deliver services to the poorest half of the city, which lacks access…
...nal of the American Institute of Planners at a time when professional planners were tripping over themselves to do civil defense plans that falsely promised to save cities from a nuclear holocaust....
...the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Area Median Income by Michael E. Stone Changing the Debate on High-Speed Rail by Michael Dudley and Arne Elias Download this issue (1.97 MB)...
...anized in 1985 when neighborhood residents began undertaking neighborhood self-help projects in conjunction with the local settlement house. Today it is a 50-member 501(c)3 non-profit with a 150-page neighborhood improvement plan, an executive director, several environmental improvement projects, rehab projects…
...on: the Union de Movimiento de Moradías en São Paulo (UMM), and at a national level the Union Nacional de Moradía Popular. The group also collaborates with the widely known rural landless organization, the Movimento Sim Terra. Despite its growing…
...d by the disappearance of Soviet influence and by the economic crisis that paralyzed standard planning methodologies predicated on plentiful resources. Given the country’s high level of collective consciousness and organization, participatory planning would seem like a natural approach for…
...ormative planning means wielding our planning tools in a way that frames real alternatives; that elaborates the trade-offs in making one or another choice–that puts real control in people’s hands. It does not mean making everybody a professional planner–a possessor…