Category: Spring ’17 Issue

by Mariano Moran Ventura In August 2014, the Corredor Cultural Chapultepec “CCC”[1] project was announced by the local government of Mexico City. It was destined to be one of the biggest urban improvements in the history of Mexico’s capital. Echoing the Highline Park in New York City, the CCC was greeted with enthusiasm as an… Read more Public Participation in the Planning of Developing Countries: Lessons from the Chapultepec Cultural Corridor

by Joyce Choi Li On November 8, 2016, I watched an onscreen battle unfold through maps. As election results rolled in, they seemed to glow in anger. Across the major television networks, analysts manipulated these maps on large touchscreen monitors beyond the usual red and blue distribution across states. We were shown deep dives into… Read more Let’s Wage Cartographic War

by Eduard Cabre Romans After two years living in NYC and absorbing knowledge and practice from the American urban planning world I realize my views regarding the role of planners have substantially changed. There are plenty of things I have learned and incorporated to my perception of urban planning as a discipline, and I am sure… Read more European Views on the American Way of Planning

by Wagner Planner Editors Articles included in the Spring 2017 issue share a common thread — they offer perspectives on planning’s intersection with politics. As aspiring practitioners, we are constantly provoked to question the role of the planner: are we facilitators, developers, technocrats, or mediators? And, in all these roles, we wrestle with identifying the… Read more Perspectives: Spring 2017 Issue

by Rachel Cohen They say all politics is local, but this election season seemed to suggest otherwise. With all eyes on the Presidential election and the rhetoric so focused on everything wrong with Washington, a number of state and local initiatives got buried in the news rubble. These votes show that Americans may not be… Read more If All Politics Is Local, What Does this Election Say About Planning?