FEATURES Participatory Housing Cooperatives: An Argentinean Experiment Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly 7th Generation Ann Forsyth Vietnam Going Global without a Plan: Welcome to the Capitalist World Tom Angotti Good Design Alone Can’t Change Society Kimberly Libman, Lauren Tenney and…
By Jason Hackworth A Return to the Halcyon Days or Just Another Empty Promise? On April 29, 2005, officials from Ontario and the Canadian federal government announced what was deemed by one senior provincial official as “the largest affordable housing…
By Kym Liebman, Lauren Tenney and Susan Saegert In 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered, the nation’s cities and campuses were torn by riots and all the conventional approaches to cities were being questioned. Every modern approach to social reform,…
By Tom Angotti In the Jan/Feb 1998 issue of the Planners Network newsletter (the forerunner ofProgressive Planning Magazine ), I wrote, “If you love livable cities, hurry up to Hanoi ” because new development “threatens the city’s greatest asset, its street…
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly In the shadow of the sparkling skyscrapers of Buenos Aires ‘s newly redeveloped Puerto Madero waterfront area, we picked our way along the muddy paths of a villa miseria, the Argentinean word for a squatter settlement.…