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…