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Remarkably, grassroots-based community planning flourishes in New York City -- the self-proclaimed \"real estate capital of the world\" -- with at least seventy community plans for different neighborhoods throughout the city. Most of these were developed during fierce struggles against gentrification, displacement, and environmental hazards, and most got little or no support from government. In fact, community-based plans in New York far outnumber the land use plans produced by government agencies. InNew York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards. Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community planning, focuses on the close relationships among community planning, political strategy, and control over land. After describing the political economy of New York City real estate, its close ties to global financial capital, and the roots of community planning in social movements and community organizing, Angotti turns to specifics. He tells of two pioneering plans forged in reaction to urban renewal plans (including the first community plan in the city, the 1961 Cooper Square Alternate Plan -- a response to a Robert Moses urban renewal scheme); struggles for environmental justice, including battles over incinerators, sludge, and garbage; plans officially adopted by the city; and plans dominated by powerful real estate interests. Finally, Angotti proposes strategies for progressive, inclusive community planning not only for New York City but for anywhere that neighborhoods want to protect themselves and their land.New York for Saleteaches the empowering lesson that community plans can challenge market-driven development even in global cities with powerful real estate industries

The inequalities between the large metropolitan regions, small cities, and rural towns of Latin American nations are a reflection of the economic inequalities between North and South and within the South, and an unequal division of labor. Government and international aid have been unsuccessful in eliminating the problem because they do not address the underlying economic inequalities.

Uses Engels' 'The Housing Question' as a starting point for an examination of the housing crisis and analyses the relationship between social ownership and socialism. Looks at the Institute for Policy Studies' 'Progressive Housing Programme for America' and its influence on the 1988 Jesse Jackson campaign. (SJK)

Examines the premises on which the demonology of Stalin is based. Looks at the main historical direction of the Soviet Union during the Stalin period, and Stalin's role in the formation and execution of the policies of the Soviet party and state. Attempts to identify the major outstanding questions yet to be resolved by historians. (JLN)

THE URBAN QUESTION IN LATIN AMERICA MAY ACTUALLY BE DEFINED AS TWO DISTINCT BUT INTERRELATED THEORETICAL AND POLITICAL QUESTIONS: ONE DEALING WITH THE URBAN COMMUNITY AND THE OTHER WITH REGIONALISM AND CENTRALIZATION. IN POLITICAL TERMS, THE QUESTION IS: WHAT SIGNIFICANCE DO URBAN MOVEMENTS HAVE WITHIN THE BROADER STRUGGLE FOR REFORM AND REVOLUTION? THE SECOND ASPECT OF THE URBAN QUESTION IS THE PROBLEM OF REGIONAL INEQUALITIES OR DISPARITIES.