Special Issue on Transportation The Costs of Auto Dependency By Lisa Schreibman Seventh Generation By Tom Angotti Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice By Rich Stolz Toronto Car Culture Is Alive and Well By Janice Etter Toronto Cyclists Fight for Respect…
By Oren Yiftachel There are few societies in which urban and regional planning has been so central to nation-building and state policy as Israel. Over the years, Israeli planning has been a pivotal activity for reshaping the landscape according to…
By Eugene J. Patron People in Montgomery, Alabama will tell you that as much as the city likes to see itself as part of the “New” South, local politicians have been slow to give up their old, dirty tricks. For…
By Janice Etter In the last few years, Toronto’s newspapers have been full of references to “gridlock” as the city’s major transportation challenge. Letters to the editor–mainly from car drivers–rant about the amount of time it takes to travel around…
By Rich Stolz West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT) has fought for years to mitigate the high concentration of bus depots in this New York City neighborhood. Diesel exhaust has been linked by researchers to asthma and cancer, and WE…
By Lisa Schreibman We are paying dearly for the American love affair with the car. We pay through taxes and out of our pockets. The environmental costs are staggering, and the toll in deaths and injuries is comparable to the…
Special Issue on 2002 PN Conference Bridging Divides, Building Futures: A Puerto Rican Perspective By Agustin Lao-montes Seventh Generation By Eve Baron Bridging Divides, Building Futures: Conference Planning as Cross-Cultural Dialogue By Kiara L. Nagel 2002 Planners Network Conference Summary…
By Leonardo Vazquez, PP/AICP A friend of mine, a terrific planner in the private sector, gets called in on jobs from public sector clients and private sector colleagues who want him to join their team. He is one of the…
By Katharine N. Rankin I welcomed the invitation to join this dialogue on planning education because I have had my own experiences of being defined at the margins of “real” planning. I relish those experiences because they remind me of…
By Barbara Rahder Who is a “real” planner? What makes one person a “real” planner and another person not a “real” planner? How is this decided and by whom? What are the common expectations of students entering planning programs (or…
By Gerda R. Wekerle The idea for this dialogue was formed at the ACSP luncheon last year in Atlanta. Two colleagues, one senior-level and well-established, the other newly hired to a planning program after a long and successful career in…
By Kiara L. Nagel It’s late Saturday night and the conference is winding down, the planners are exhausted from a long day of workshops, presentations, and cultural events, and some have even headed to their cars in search of sleep…
From a talk delivered by Agustin Lao-Montes, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, on Saturday June 15th, 2002 at the Planners Network National Conference, “New Visions For Historic Cities: Bridging Divides, Building Futures,” in Holyoke, Massachusetts.…
Table of Contents The Narrow Base of the New Urbanists By Michael Pyatok Seventh Generation By Richard Milgrom Placemaking as a Critique of New Urbanism By Robert G. Shibley From “Sugar Cookies” to “Gingerbread Men”: Conformity in Suburban Design By…
By Janet L. Smith Chicago’s public housing is testimony to a long history of struggle between poor people and politicians. The latest contest is over the Chicago Housing Authority’s (CHA) Plan for Transformation, which aims to reduce the existing…
By Jennifer Hurley I became interested in planning because I wanted to fight poverty, and I saw that poverty and the physical environment were tied together. I was also concerned with protecting the natural environment and preserving quality architecture. I…
By Jill Grant New urbanist-inspired approaches to suburban development are common in contemporary Canada. Suburbs influenced by new urbanism and featuring modified grid layouts, narrow streets, small lots and limited street setbacks are increasingly common. “Traditional” houses with front porches…
By Michael Pyatok New urbanism has been aggressively marketed within the last decade by “boomers” who came of age professionally in the 1990s, disenchanted with the negative physical and social consequences of the sprawl and urban renewal they had witnessed…
Special Issue on Youth and Planning Involving Youth in Planning: The Progressive Challenge By Ann Forsyth Seventh Generation Chester Hartman and Tom Angotti Townview, Texas: A High School Adoption Program By M. Teresa Vázquez-Castillo Teenagers Show Planners How It’s Done: Build Your…
By Fernando Marti Perhaps you remember hanging out after school, searching out those empty lots, abandoned parks, or downtown plazas with their concrete benches? They were the real playgrounds and obstacle courses of our adventurous minds. Perhaps now, as urban…
By M. Teresa Vázquez-Castillo (This is a story about a group of planning students whose semester-long project became a powerful tool for change when they organized a dynamic one-day program involving young people in a gentrifying neighborhood in Texas.) When…
by Tom Angotti I agree with Chester Hartman that Planners Network’s development in recent years has been healthy. PN is increasingly recognized as a progressive voice in planning. The newsletter has evolved into a magazine with lots of contributions that…
By Ann Forsyth How can children and youth have a voice in planning? What are the responsibilities of planners to incorporate children and youth in their activities? This issue of Planners Network features a number of articles about these issues…
By Peter Marcuse The following paper was drafted as the basis for discussion at a series of meetings planned by New York City Planners Network. It reflects the concerns expressed by Planners Network members who have been involved with some…
By Chester Hartman In 1970, I moved from the East coast (Cambridge) to the West coast (San Francisco). While it was, for me, a very satisfying change of venue, as a lifelong Easterner (seventeen years in the Bronx, followed by…