Magazine
Issue 18: Living under peril
Spring 2008
Extraordinary people developing communities under extraordinary circumstances is the theme to our Spring 2008 issue. Fire, water, terror, global warming, illegal immigration, racism and war isn’t enough to stop activist leaders like Van Jones and Majora Carter from making a positive impact on neighborhoods in need. Through both paranoia and legitimate fear, ours is a world attuned to, even stimulated by, hazard. But in the face of this, the question is not; should we advance or withdraw? The question is; how can we grow?
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.
- 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.
- GalleryThe Human Landscape
Co-existence and the Merging of Civilization and Nature
- 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.
Departments
- IdeasBlacklisted
Is failing to plan with minority architects, in fact, planning to fail?
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.’
- LeadersBaghdad’s Bureaucracy
A former United States Civil Affairs officer shares his thoughts on the U.S.’s role in Iraq’s biggest city.
- 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.
- LeadersRespect for the Human Scale 2
An interview with urban theorists James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros
- Urban HistorianAsk an Urban Historian: The South
Etcetera
- ReviewsPedestrianism Fact and Fancy
- ReviewsSociety of Saint Jane
- ReviewsTaming Times Square
- TravelCounterfeit Urbanism
At Sea in Thames Town
