Issue 18: Living under peril

Spring 2008

Features

• Building Under Peril 1
  Nature will always challenge developers, but landmark studies of wildfire in California and flooding along the Mississippi are showing new ways of living in America’s most dangerous regions.
  by Scott Gabriel Knowles
• Green For All 1
  On opposite sides of the country, Van Jones and Majora Carter try to parlay two lifetimes’ worth of social activism into a cleaner, greener economy to solve the problems of urban poverty.
  by Robbie Whelan
• GalleryThe Human Landscape
  Co-existence and the Merging of Civilization and Nature
  by Domingo Milella
• Freedom of Expression 3
  In the heart of the Deep South, Jackson Free Press has resurrected the alt-weekly tradition of maverick investigations and cultural provocation.
  by Casey Sanchez

Departments

• IdeasBlacklisted
  Is failing to plan with minority architects, in fact, planning to fail?
  by Brentin Mock
• IdeasFrom LOVE comes Paine
  Years after legislation criminalized one of the most famous informal skateparks in the country, a thoroughly planned predecessor, Paine’s Park, finally nears completion. Is this Shangri-La for skateboarders? Or an expensive cover-up for NIMBY-pandering city policies.
  by Liz Marklewicz
• IdeasThe Cleaned City
  In São Paolo, outdoor advertising has been outlawed as “visual pollution,” leaving the city’s landscape dotted with blank billboards and decayed frames. A year into the law, how has the city changed?
  by David Evan Harrs
• IdeasMagnolia
  An ambitious plan to develop a Manhattan-sized brownfield highlights old power dynamics, a Southern struggle pitting black interests against white interests, and deep-seeded racism in a birthplace of American slavery.
  by Hayley Richardson
• LeadersGod’s Business
  A discussion with Tracy J. Brown and Dr. Steve Parson about black churches, investment, inner-city communities and the ‘Modern Day Pharaoh System.’
  by Matt Stroud
• LeadersBaghdad’s Bureaucracy
  A former United States Civil Affairs officer shares his thoughts on the U.S.’s role in Iraq’s biggest city.
  by Matt Stroud
• LeadersShelter and the Storm
  After Hurricane Katrina hit, Dr. Vera Triplett played a major role in helping to rebuild her community, the Gentilly neighborhood, and the rest of New Orleans.
  by Helen I. Hwang
• LeadersRespect for the Human Scale 2
  An interview with urban theorists James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros
  by Lakis Polycarpou
• Urban HistorianAsk an Urban Historian: The South
  by Dr. Julian Chambliss

Etcetera

• ReviewsPedestrianism Fact and Fancy
  by Jeanne Haffner
• ReviewsSociety of Saint Jane
  by Mariana Mogilevich
• ReviewsTaming Times Square
  by Jeanne Haffner
• TravelCounterfeit Urbanism
  At Sea in Thames Town
  by Mariana Mogilevich