Podcasts about people's plan

Sarah McKinley, Author and Manager of Community Development Programs for The Democracy Collaborative, discusses the value of establishing an ecosystem of interdependent cooperatives in major cities. Sarah also talks about case studies included in "Cites Building Community Wealth," a book she co-authored, and community wealth building strategies, such as; community development, finance institutions and cooperatives. Sarah McKinley is Manager of Community Development Programs for The Democracy Collaborative. She manages the Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building, a multi-year initiative supported by the Northwest Area Foundation, assisting five organizations in Indian Country to create social enterprises and employee-owned companies. She co-authored Cities Building Community Wealth, The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs, and Raising Student Voices: Student Action for University Community Investment. She has a background in community development and has worked with a number of community groups, including the Greater Southwest Development Corporation, a Chicago-based community development corporation, and the National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations. While earning her master degree in urban and regional planning at Cornell University, McKinley was a co-author of "A People's Plan for New Orleans" a bottom-up community development plan for the 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina. She holds a bachelor's degree in urban history from the University of Chicago. In her spare time, McKinley, an avid food lover, is a member of the board of Slow Food DC, the local chapter of an international organization that promotes a good, clean, and fair food system.

Our first episode this season is a special collaboration with Law Meets World, a series by UCLA Law Review Discourse that explores the effects of gentrification and displacement in Los Angeles. In this episode, we chat with Doug Smith, Ysabel Jurado, and Joe Donlin to learn more about the role of community planning in combating gentrification in Los Angeles. We look at the People's Plan, a community plan developed by South LA residents in 2017 to prioritize affordable housing and prevent displacement.

CodeNEXT is the City of Austin initiative to rewrite its complex and outdated land development code. The project is a component of the City Council adopted comprehensive plan, Imagine Austin, which aims to promote growth in more connected, sustainable, and affordable ways, embodying the values and character of the Austin community. It is a complicated and controversial topic with supporters and critics. We had guests with varying views of CodeNEXT on Shades of Green to get us updated on the issues. Our guests were: Jim Duncan - member of the city's Zoning and Platting Commission. Conor Kenny - member of the city's Planning Commission Susana Almanza - Executive Director of PODER (People Organized In Defense of Earth and Her Resources) As land use commissioners, Jim and Conor shared information about each of their commission's specific recommendations to City Council around CodeNEXT. Susana has been involved in several efforts organizing against CodeNEXT, and was one of the co-authors of the People's Plan (an alternative to CodeNEXT focused around curbing displacement and gentrification) Susana also shared with us an environmental success!!! She gave us an update around her work in getting the Pure Castings Industrial Metal Foundry to relocate away from Zavala Elementary School in East Austin.

A People's Plan for the East River Waterfront co-authors Jason Chan, Projects Coordinator, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities Anne Frederick, Executive Director, Hester Street Collaborative Damaris Reyes, Executive Director and winner of Jane Jacobs Medal, GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side)

Speaker:Dr. Manjula Bharati, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, IndiaYou are invited to listen to a presentation on the micro level planning process in Leh, India, an innovative participatory process influenced by the highly acclaimed People's Plan of Kerala. Dr. Manjula Bharati, an internationally renowned researcher who participated in both processes of democratic decentralization, will discuss key issues faced by local communities in understanding and articulating their own development problems, and how these can be resolved.Moderated by Dr. Daniel Schugurensky, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 10/15/08http://socialeconomy.utoronto.ca/podcasts/mb_101508.mp3