Volume 16

Featuring work on participatory planning in Mexico; master planning in face of disaster in Skopje, Macedonia; preparing urban planners for economic decline in North America; housing and gentrification in East Austin; Imagine Austin and the political economy; race, love, and urban planning; explorations into lived experience in Montreal, Canada; park life in Bucharest, Romania; regional energy access in India; marketing Mexico’s Pueblos Mágicos; and the spectacular history of planning Las Vegas.

Planning Forum is an annual publication produced by graduate and doctoral students in the Department of Community and Regional Planning at The University of Texas at Austin. The journal publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles as well as critical explorations in less-conventional formats. Planning Forum serves as a platform for emerging voices and new perspectives on the most pressing issues in the field. Scholars, practitioners, activists, and writers of all kinds are welcome to submit.

Inquires	Author
The Naked Practitioner: Participatory Community Development in Peri-Urban Mexico	Dr. Patricia Wilson
Skopje, Macedonia, 1965 to 2014: In Search of a Modern European Capital	Dr. Cynthia A. Lintz and Lauren Bulka
Preparing Planners for Economic Decline and Population Loss: An Assessment of North American Planning Curricula	Maxwell Hartt
Development and Displacement: Single Family Home Demolitions in Central East Austin, 2007 to 2014	Sara McTarnaghan
Imagining Austin: Political Economy and the Austin Comprehensive Plan	Adam Ogusky

Explorations
Piñata Power: Reflections on Race, Love, and Planning	Elizabeth Walsh
A Reflection on Exploratory Research in Pointe-Saint-Charles	Aditi Ohri
The Neighborhood and the Park: Drumul Taberei, Bucharest by Maria Alexandrescu	Maria Alexandrescu
A Case for Regional Planning in Energy Access Delivery	Vivek Shastry
Marketing Magic: The Tourism Ministry’s Pueblos Mágicos Program and Historical Preservation in Mexico	Gibrán Lule-Hurtado
The Spectacularization of Urban Development on the Las Vegas Strip	Kurt Kraler

Appendix
Author Biographies	Maria Alexandrescu – Lauren Bulka – Maxwell Hartt – Kurt Kraler – Dr. Cynthia A. Lintz – Gibrán Lule-Hurtado – Sara McTarnaghan – Adam Ogusky – Aditi Ohri – Vivek Shastry – Dr. Patricia A. Wilson – Elizabeth Walsh

Managing Editors
Thomas Rowlinson – Martin Sinel

Editorial Board
Brianna Garner – Greg Griffin – Adam Ogusky – Raksha Vasudevan – Juan Yunda