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Urbanist.org

Urbanist.org is a project I proposed to the Urban Planning Program at Columbia University. The idea was to create a multidisciplinary web review on "the city" with contributions from students, professors, and practitioners. The staff would have been mainly constituted by students working for academic credits and by a couple of permanent editors.

Unfortunately, there was no money and little motivation from the administration so the project got buried. If you are a rich donor, or an interested investor do not hesitate to contact me.

If you are broke but interested anyway you can view the flash and acrobat PDF presentations I made.

The other blurbs and links on this page are fake.

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top: Diagram by Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-Morrow, from http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda

bottom: Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin pour Paris 1945, from http://www.volker-goebel.de

A Plan for New York City by Peter Marcuse of the Urban Planning program at Columbia University.

New York city needs planning before design argues professor Marcuse. Yet once again America's economy defied the pessimists. On the back of strong productivity growth, resilient consumer spending and an upswing in corporate profits, it surged in the first three months of 2002. George Bush's $42 billion economic-stimulus bill seemingly came too late.

Editorial by Lisa Chamberlain

After nine years of robust growth, America’s economic bubble burst in 2000. Technology shares plunged in the spring, foretelling a sharp economic slowdown later that year. The Fed, led by Alan Greenspan, slashed interest rates. But the economy failed to pick up and was in recession before the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11th. Its health took another knock in December when Enron's collapse shook investor confidence.
Yet once again America's economy defied the pessimists. On the back of strong productivity growth, resilient consumer spending and an upswing in corporate profits, it surged in the first three months of 2002. George Bush's $42 billion economic-stimulus bill seemingly came too late.After nine years of robust growth, America’s economic bubble burst in 2000. Technology shares plunged in the spring, foretelling a sharp economic slowdown later that year. The Fed, led by Alan Greenspan, slashed interest rates. But the economy failed to pick up and was in recession before the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11th.

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Design for Downtown Manhattan by Richard Meier & Partners. For a review of the design proposals go to http://www.RenewNYC.com

Content Febuary 1-15 2003

Can We Make the Cities We Want? Susain Fainstein

A Plan for New York City Peter Marcuse

Affordable Housing: New York City on the verge of a new crisis? Lance Freeman

Perception of the City: The changing role of Television Jennifer Most

A Sustainable Urbanity: The case of Toronto Zineb Morabet

The New Cultures of Paris Nadia Zimerman

New Urbanism Gary Roth

Trading Places Summer Conference: Urban extremes in Latin America Ann Yamamoto

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