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...ue no explota fuerza de trabajo como la autoconstrucción asistida tradicional*]}*–tiene excelentes perspectivas para los años por venir. El proyecto global más importante supone construir mediante esta metodología cooperativa y solidaria no menos de 5.000 viviendas con su correspondiente equipamiento…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
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...ment is the ‘fight for $15’ and it has won victories across states such as California, New York, Seattle, all the way […] Read More Four Eviction Tactics Used by Rio Authorities, and How Favela Residents Have Fought Back Anna…
...ructions to join Join Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally and the Ecological Society of America to learn how science and policy intersect to protect wetlands, hear from local advocates for ecologically sound practices, and discuss the potential impact of an…
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...she originally envisioned that this on-line group would discuss the historical dimensions of community organizing, she was quickly inundated with hundreds of us who ignored the “history” part of the announcement and lunged at the “community organizing” part. We were…
...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…
...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…
...w the statement here. Check out our online magazine, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives. You can also follow along on Facebook and Twitter. About Planners Network Planners Network is a 501 (3) (c) non-profit organization. Get details on how to Join…
..., and justice throughout the region, we invite you to join us in this critical work. A Principal Solid Waste Planner: RFP and Contracts-oversees procurement for and ongoing management of major contracts supporting the operation of Metro’s solid waste system.…
...ers are professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas. We serve as a voice for social, economic, and environmental justice through planning. PN connects progressive planners in the following…
...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…
...material of American planning history derives from two concerns: the physical problems associated with regional growth and the social ones connected to race and class. New York, because it is simultaneously one of the nation’s oldest cities as well as…
...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…
...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.…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...lication of Planners Network is the online Magazine, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives. The online Magazine seeks to be an important means for networking among members, a source of innovative ideas, and forum for controversial policy questions neglected in mainstream planning…
...holarships and needs-based tuition assistance available for qualified applicants. The Yale Climate Change and Health Certificate is an 18-week, online certificate program that prepares public health professionals and those in related fields to address the health impacts of climate change.…
...three references. The University of Toronto’s recruiting tool will automatically solicit and collect letters of reference from each once an application is submitted. Applicants, however, remain responsible for ensuring that references submit letters (on letterhead, dated and signed) by the…
...search. We are seeking candidates who work at the intersection of (i) critical race theory, environmental justice, Black ecologies, or Black studies in diaspora and transnational migration; and (ii) the arts, environmental ethics, ecology, urban studies, global political ecologies, or…
...acteristics of the U.S. social welfare state. It examines the socio-historical foundations and political economy of social welfare including the role of interest groups, courts, and public bureaucracies in molding U.S. social welfare. Special emphasis is placed on policies and…
...d have a master’s degree or PhD in in public policy, urban planning, political science, sociology, or a related field. Those with real-world practice and policy experience are preferred, as well as teaching experience at the college-level. Application instructions All…
...ughout 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.…
By Heather Stouder A key (and often contradictory) challenge for local food system initiatives is to take a syst ematic approach to move beyond providing local flavor to a privileged few, while ensuring that farmers and food producers receive a…
...progressive planners and community organizers. It is an accessible, analytical book, a fascinating read. Here is the history, as Angotti lays it out: As far back as Peter Stuyvesant in the 1600s, big developers had always been at the center…
...mper polluting traffic. There is also no belt of ramshackle slums, the typical welcome mat of cities in the South, but I still felt the urge to pick up a paintbrush, trowel and mortar to tackle the overwhelming deterioration. Quite…
...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…
...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,…
...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…
...atherine T. McCaffrey Urban Prospects 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,…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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.…
...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.…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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…
...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,…
...ractice, engagement and/or activism. This hire is supported by CIVIC (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the Cornell provost’s radical collaboration task force in the Humanities and the Arts, which targets faculty hires in the fields of public life…
...broader knowledge across disciplines. Cornell’s Ithaca campus is the physical and academic center for AAP, but given the global nature of our interests, the college has extended its reach to include permanent programs in the historic center of Rome and…
...onsequences, such as social exclusion and gentrification, loss of unique local characteristics, high housing prices, and other problems (Larsen and Hansen, 2008; Montgomery, 2008; Rohe, 2009). Urban regeneration has taught us valuable lessons such as: physical renewal alone is problematic;…
...Network principles of social, economic, and environmental justice at the local level. Chapters determine their own structure, activities, and decision-making processes. See a list of existing chapters and the ways to contact them on our Chapters Page, and see information…
...munication and their ethics. From the household to the urban and regional scales, these questions are as important to engage in data-poor parts of the global north and south as they are in the data-rich. We seek a scholar with…
...ndidates are encouraged to self-identify as a member of one or more historically disadvantaged and marginalized groups, including the following: those who self-identify as women, members of other visible minorities (racialized groups), First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples, Indigenous peoples…
...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…
...enied on the basis of ability, race, gender, sexuality and class. For this call, we are seeking short submissions (roughly 500 words) for our online magazine, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives, on initiatives, strategies or actions that aim to secure more…
...e and equitable projects. Knowledge of data on racial disparities within local, state, and national context and the impacts that historic and contemporary transportation investments have had to establish and exacerbate those disparities. Ability to review, interpret and translate legislation…
...t articles check out our current online publication, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives. 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 Sept – Dec: After September 11 July – August: The Road from Rochester…
...rch and teaching. Required application materials (to be submitted electronically): Curriculum vitae Letter of application Statement of research and teaching interests Statement of Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Writing samples List of three references with telephone numbers as well…
...egral role in the development of funding proposals to federal, state and local agencies. In addition to leading the development and maintenance the climate justice research and program portfolio of the Institute, s/he is expected to oversee all grant making…
...of feasibility studies; identification of project goals, objectives, critical physical and environmental constraints; space utilization and facility condition assessments; and completion of project deliverables. § Assists with preparation of quantitative-based projections for facility and capital projections. § Supports the production…
...students of the McGill School of Urban Planning publish an online magazine called Free City. Check out the call for submissions for the upcoming issue, on the theme of “Revive”. Deadline January 24th! https://free-city.ca/call-for-submissions The theme of the fifth issue…
...n the solidarity economy and mutual aid responses, and it has prompted new calls to expand the role of government and public policy in supporting socially and environmentally just economic alternatives. ‘Community Economic Development’ provides one avenue to promote such…
...s a National Network Coordinator to lead the implementation of a new Technical Assistance Program for member organizations at different stages of organizational development. Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are community led, non-profit organizations which acquire and hold land in the…
...ability to review, evaluate, and solve problems in an efficient and methodical manner. The Associate Planner is responsible for conducting professional planning work in land use and urban planning including current and/or advanced planning projects within the City and in…
...ngs.; and performs related duties as assigned. Oakland is a racially, ethnically, linguistically and economically diverse community, and the City of Oakland welcomes candidates with diverse and multicultural skill sets. The Bureau of Planning supports the mission of the City…
...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. To see full information about how to…
...happenstance. They are planned, designed and built from a series of methodical choices. The City of Dublin has always been a community that embraces this philosophy and has prospered as a result. The work of the division touches all parts…
...rly and low-income African Americans. In response to the request for technical and architectural design assistance, a Project Planning class during the summer of 1999 at UTA prepared a Redevelopment and Renovation Plan that focused on the physical and economic…
...These sites allow users to create profiles, share information, news, and photographs, link to their own wikis and blogs, join groups, contribute to discussions, post important links, and promote events. Although both sites are commonly used for professional networking, Facebook…
...nt” professionals and supporters of the field, and he courted them energetically, seeking bequests of papers and books. The university already had some papers at that point—from John Nolen, for example, and Charles Mulford Robinson. John Reps and Kermit C.…
...May/June 2000 The Electronic Frontier Selected Feature Information Technologies and Progressive Planning by Ann Forsyth Online for Organizing: The Story of COMM-ORG by Randy Stoeker NKLA: Neighborhood Improvement and Recovery is Not Just for the Experts! by Bill Pitkin The…
...ublic housing. On September 26th, the Senate passed its version of this so-called overhaul, which would in fact end this nation’s longstanding commitment to public housing. While many housing projects are beset with problems, we must understand that public housing…
...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…
...tributing time to volunteer efforts with PN or working on more immediate local issues. Nevertheless, the work our members do in their local communities is perhaps the more powerful, but quieter, contribution PN has made. I believe this work is…
...Clinton has just told another lie, this time not about the relatively trivial matter of his sexual activities, but about matters of life and death. In explaining his decision to bomb Baghdad, he said that other nations besides Iraq have…
...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…
...ent of a multi-million dollar program funded by the Clinton Administration called Clickstart. Despite the attention devoted to it, talk about the “digital divide” and proposed solutions to this “new phenomenon” both mis-specify the problem of the digital divide and…
...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…
...nd region. Cars and trucks are expected to account for 43 percent of all local greenhouse gas emissions in Multnomah County by 2010. Transportation sources are also the biggest contributors (38 percent) of local air pollutants such as ozone and…
...inable design and development, community development for social justice, local and regional economic development, and land use and transportation concentrations, as well as a cross cutting transnational planning specialization. The university (www.illinois.edu) and departmental (www.urban.illinois.edu) web sites offer additional information.…
...tools available to them, nor have they championed the types of state and local activities that make a difference at the community level. Fortunately, creative solutions are being pursued in cities and towns across the country. The Problem with How…
...candidates running on advocacy platforms opportunities to win big at the local level, and advocates across the city some reason to be optimistic that their views might be represented within the political system. As elections neared, the Campaign for Community-Based…
...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…
...anners Network member, is professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 1999, she has also been director of the UCLA Community Scholars Program, co-sponsored by her department and the UCLA Center for Labor Research…