November/December 1999 Smart Growth
Selected Feature How Smarth Growth Can Save Growth By Tom Angotti Oregon: Where’s the Growth Control? by Kevin Adams Who Benefits From Smart Growth? By Faisal Roble
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Who Benefits From Smart Growth?
By Faisal Roble Politicians all over are hawking smart growth as a formula for enlightened urban development. They include everyone from President Clinton and Vice-President Gore to Mayors in Oregon and Texas. The smart growth movement endorses development strategies that…
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November/December 1999
Oregon: Where’s the Growth Control?
by Kevin Adams In September of 1998 I had a wonderful opportunity to serve another year in AmeriCorps National Service (“domestic Peace Corps”). The Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) Program provided me a great opportunity to work as an…
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November/December 1999
How Smarth Growth Can Save Growth
By Tom Angotti I saw Lewis Mumford the other day. He was the beneficiary of a technological revolution in embalming (how ironic, he so distrusted technological revolutions). He said he heard all the chatter about Smart Growth and Growth Control and…
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November/December 1999
September/October 1999 The Growth Machine
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…
Building New Identities: Book Review
By Catherine Diaz Possible Urban Worlds: Urban Strategies at the End of the 20th Century Edited by Richard Wolff, Andreas Schneider, Christian Schmid, Philip Klaus, Andreas Hofer, and Hansruedi Hitz. 1998. Available from Birkhauser Verlag, PO Box 133, CH-40010, Basel,…
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September/October 1999
Profit Drives the Growth Machine
By Rodney D. Green Profit maximization is at the heart of the Growth Machine. But the Growth Machine isn’t strictly a local or regional phenomenon, as suggested by urban planners who rely on the Growth Machine model. It operates according…
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September/October 1999
The Auto Drives the Growth Machine
By Aaron Golub Nothing defines and shapes post-war urban transportation in the United States more than the automobile. The strong links between transportation, land use, and urban development affect nearly every aspect of the urban environment. Planners now find that…
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September/October 1999
Alternatives to the Growth Machine
By Dick Platkin and Ben Rosenbloom, Guest Editors This issue of Planners Network is on the Urban Growth Machine, a popular model for understanding the development of land under capitalism. As presented by William Fulton in The Reluctant Metropolis, the growth machine…
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September/October 1999
The Growth Machine Goes to the Inner City
By Dwayne Wyatt The Growth Machine that gave us suburban sprawl is going to the inner city. But the benefits of the new urban megaprojects are bypassing most central city residents. And the costs are falling on urban taxpayers, making…
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September/October 1999
July/August 1999 Immigration and Community
Selected Feature Transnationalism not Assimilation By Arturo Sanchez PN 99 At Lowell: Labor and Community Meet By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly Contesting Mythic America: Community-based Citizenship Education for Immigrants By Laura Y. Liu Transnational and Local Communities: How Mexican…
Transnational and Local Communities: How Mexican Gangs get Made in New York
By Robert Smith Migration has both local and transnational dimensions. Many of the problems that immigrants face ð for example, disruption of family and social life and exploitation at work are experienced both in their country of origin and their…
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July/August 1999
Contesting Mythic America: Community-based Citizenship Education for Immigrants
By Laura Y. Liu Community-based organizations have long served immigrant groups in urban areas. They organize around labor issues, deal with domestic violence, and help immigrants negotiate the naturalization process. In many ways, community groups mediate between government and the…
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July/August 1999
PN99 At Lowell: Labor and Community Meet
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly “WHO’S IN THE HOUSE?” Participants at the Planners Network 1999 conference got used to hearing conference co-coordinator Ty DePass calling out this invitation to stand up and be counted. At this first-ever PN meeting…
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July/August 1999
Transnationalism not Assimilation
By Arturo Sanchez The contemporary urban landscape is rapidly being transformed by massive waves of non-European immigration. This movement of Third World peoples to the “American City” is viewed by many influential decisionmakers as problematic. In the popular mind, large-scale…
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July/August 1999
May/June 1999 Labor and Community
Column The Seventh Generation by Tom Angotti Articles Organizing A Childcare Union In Philadelphia By Peter Pitegoff Worker Coops By Chitra Somayaji Employee Stock Ownership — ESOPS By Corey Rosen The Uncertain Future Of Worker Ownership: Two Decades Of Lessons…
Immigrant Economies and New York City’s Garment Industry: Challenges for Community Development
By Tarry Hum Despite its dramatic and continued decline, apparel production remains the largest manufacturing industry in New York City. It is viable, in large part, due to the mass influx of new immigrants “sweating” it out in cramped, poorly…
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May/June 1999
The Uncertain Future Of Worker Ownership: Two Decades Of Lessons
By Len Krimerman Worker-owned enterprises, sometimes called “worker cooperatives,” have a long history, even in the United States. But they face an uncertain future. In May, 1791, Philadelphia’s Journeyman Carpenters started the nation’s first working-class cooperative. A century or so…
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May/June 1999
Employee Stock Ownership — ESOPS
By Corey Rosen If you’ve worn Gore-Tex lately or flown on United Airlines, you’ve patronized a company most of whose stock is owned widely by its workers, through employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs. During the last decade, the number…
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May/June 1999
Worker Coops
By Chitra Somayaji Cooperatives come in several types: producer-owned, consumer-owned, and worker-owned, the last being our focus here. Unlike ESOPs, pure worker coops are 100% controlled by the worker-owners, normally on a one-person one-vote basis (although some coops have hired…
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May/June 1999
Organizing A Childcare Union In Philadelphia
By Peter Pitegoff “What an awesome gathering!” Kim Cook, a union organizer from Seattle, smiled as she looked around the meeting room of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees in Philadelphia in mid-June. Just one month earlier,…
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May/June 1999
Which Labor, Which Community?
On May 12, the largest union demonstration in years hit New York City streets. Workers from the public sector, services, and construction trades came together to demand that city and state surpluses go to raise worker pay instead of tax…
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May/June 1999
Multicultural Planning Lessons from Papakolea
By Karen Umemoto There is a lot of talk about multiculturalism in planning. Planning programs and agencies often stress the need for planning staff to be able to work in “diverse communities.” Sometimes this simply means placing planners of certain…
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March/April 1999
The East Harlem Real Great Society, A Puerto Rican Chapter in the Fight for Self-Determination
by Luis Aponte-ParÞs This is a story of an important “advocacy planning” experience during the late sixties in New York City. Its importance is twofold: to add a missing chapter in the history of “progressive planning,” and to gain a…
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March/April 1999
Visions of Hope for People of Color: A Framework for Communication and Collective Action
By Mel King Where there are no limits to growth visions of plenty abound; where visions of plenty abound growth is unlimited; mind set is critical the 8 straight up sets limits, lazy * on its side is infinite See.…
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March/April 1999
The Invasion of Aztlšn and Struggles for Land
by Teresa CÜrdova The historical memory and contemporary reality of Chicanos from Aztlšn are of people taking our space. In Aztlšn (the part of the Southwest that the U.S. took through its war with Mexico), there is evidence of the…
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March/April 1999
Restricting Occupancy, Hurting Families
by Ellen Pader While much has been written about federal legislation designed to dismantle public housing, relatively little has been written about legislation designed to eviscerate the Fair Housing Act (FHA), which gives legal protections against discrimination in housing choice.…
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March/April 1999
Urban Planning in the African American Community In the Shadows
by June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf If urban planning is to support the equitable distribution of public goods and services, it must recognize and address the dismal conditions of millions of Americans who are poor or people of color.…
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March/April 1999
Racism and Planning, Still Around
by Marie Kennedy Racism continues to present the thorniest of challenges to progressive community development planners. The problems that were on the front burner for decades – residential and school segregation, housing and job discrimination – remain unsolved, and what…
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March/April 1999
January/February 1999 Iraq and War
Pedagogy Planning’s Radical Project: What’s the Pedagogy? by Leonie Sandercock Housing Putting Housing on the Unions’ Agenda by Chris Baker, Annica Cooper, Sahyeh Fattahi, Paula Bingham Goldstein, Jimmy Gomez, Daniel Inlender, Jacqueline Leavitt, Erika Licon, and Paula Sirola Post-modernism/Planning The…
Privatization and Planning
[quote] “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” -From the Great Law of the Iriquois Confederacy [/quote] Privatization and Planning The Fall/Winter New York Planners Network Forum featured three…
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January/February 1999
Iraq Bombing : Another Lie
By Howard Zinn [Immediately after President Clinton announced the bombing of Iraq, Mother Joneswww.mojones.com called Boston University historian Howard Zinn and asked for his take. After a few minutes, he sent this forceful accusation.] President Clinton has just told another lie,…
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January/February 1999
Apocalypse Now
By Edward W. Said It would be a mistake, I think, to reduce what is happening between Iraq and the United States simply to an assertion of Arab will and sovereignty on the one hand versus American imperialism, which undoubtedly…
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January/February 1999
The Bombing of Iraq: U.S. War Crime
By Noam Chomsky The US and its increasingly pathetic British lieutenant want the world to understand – and in particular want the people of the Middle East region to understand – that “What We Say Goes,” as Bush defined his…
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January/February 1999
The Postmodern Opportunity for Planning
By Paul Niebanck We are living at a time of huge new promise and opportunity for progressive planning. Long constrained by the rigidities associated with modernism, we are free now to help invent the future and construct the institutions that…
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January/February 1999
Putting Housing on the Unions’ Agenda
by Chris Baker, Annica Cooper, Sahyeh Fattahi, Paula Bingham Goldstein, Jimmy Gomez, Daniel Inlender, Jacqueline Leavitt, Erika Licon, and Paula Sirola Union organizing around housing is barely a blip on the radar screen of unions in Southern California. Striking gains…
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January/February 1999
Planning’s Radical Project What’s the Pedagogy?
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…
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January/February 1999