By Jonathan Michael Feldman and Jessica Gordon Nembhard This special section is devoted to an analysis and discussion of democratic economic development as the foundation for a new way to organize communities. We hope to provide planners with inspiration, new…
The September 11 attacks on New York City and Washington brought horror and death and there is no moral or political justification for them. We are concerned that the cries for war arising in the U.S. will lead to more…
By Tom Angotti The attacks on the World Trade Center brought horror, fear, death and anger to many New Yorkers. In the weeks after the attacks, government at all levels and many brave volunteers took care of the urgent tasks…
By Peter Marcuse We are all of course trying to come to grips with what the events of September 11 mean, and will mean. It has been a terrible disaster, and the immediate loss of life is incredible. But I…
Selected Feature PN 2001 in Rochester: Voices of Change By Ken Reardon Rochester: The Path Less Traveled By William A. Johnson, Jr. Changing the Culture of Planning By Norman Krumholz
By Ken Reardon Nearly four hundred neighborhood leaders, professional planners, planning students and planning academics participated in this year’s national conference, which was held at the University of Rochester in New York on June 21-24. Nine local colleges and universities…
By Mayor William A. Johnson, Jr. Why did Rochester take the path less traveled when we decided to create a partnership with citizens to chart our future? Lewis Mumford put it as well as anyone when he said that “the…
by Norman Krumholz I want to report on my impressions of planning after years of close association with the American Planning Association (APA) and American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), and much conversation with planning practitioners around the U.S. I have…
Selected Feature Community-based Planning: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric By Jocelyne Chait Getting Transportation Priorities Straight By Lisa Schreibman Privatizing Public Space: Saving NYC’s Parks By Dave Lutz
By Dave Lutz In New York City little planning is done to meet the needs for public space. City government has no idea of what the public needs are, or what it would cost to meet them. There are no…
By Lisa Schreibman As New York City grew in the 1990’s so did the demand for transportation. Population grew by 9%, jobs by 10% and personal wealth by 5%. The average number of weekday bus riders grew by 47% between…
By Jocelyne Chait The growth in community-based planning across the United States over the past decade reflects increasing recognition of the value of citizen participation in rebuilding neighborhoods and promoting sustainable community development. New York City, one of the largest…
Selected Feature Queers and Planning By George Cheung and Ann Forsyth Transgendered as Mine Shaft Canaries By Petra L. Doan Deviant History, Defiant Heritage By Gail Dubrow Zoning that Excludes Queers By Gwen Urey
By Gwen Urey In Pomona, California, where I am a planning commissioner, a simple phrase in one sentence of a complex ordinance would have had a discriminatory effect had I not caught it. It could have excluded some low-income queer…
By Petra L. Doan In coal mining country it is common knowledge that canaries are highly sensitive to noxious methane gas sometimes found in mines. Miners used to carry a caged canary into the mine as an early warning device;…
By George Cheung and Ann Forsyth Planners Network has had a commitment to queer issues for some time, but what this means has not been much discussed in the organization. This newsletter issue grew out of our experience, and the…
Selected Feature Federal Urban Renewal Not Dead by Tom Angotti Race and Waste: Options for Equity Planning in New York City by Juliana Maantay
By Gail Dubrow While there is no shortage of queer folk in the preservation movement, as volunteers and preservation professionals there are very few positive depictions of GLBT identity at the historic sites and buildings that are our life’s work.…
by Juliana Maantay The concentration of waste transfer stations in New York City’s poorer neighborhoods and communities of color undermines public health, equity, and the environment. For all the calculations that have gone into the city’s latest plan for solid…
by Tom Angotti So you thought Nixon killed federal urban renewal in the 1970s? Did you know that the federal government is currently financing one of the largest urban renewal plans in history? It has displaced tens of thousands of…