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Planning Forum Volume 16 The Naked Practitioner: Participatory Community Development in Peri-Urban Mexico Dr. Patricia Wilson Abstract: Participatory practice in community development is process- and relationship-oriented. Yet many community development practitioners focus on technical problem solving, service delivery, or information provision. How might these practitioners respond to participatory practice? Using… read more 

What if our traditional urban planning practices were overtaken and overturned, introducing a whole new set of problems, tools, and future possibilities? Such might be the case with the smart city, “a city activated at millions of points” (p. 13) and made intelligent “in the sense of the ability to… read more 

The United States (and global) economy has been moving into a period of economic stagnation for the past few decades (Magdoff & Foster, 2014). As a small number of large corporations dominate a greater share of sectors in the U.S. and global economies, business investment has slowed and wages are… read more