Critical Planning Publishes its 18th Volume!  October 31, 2011 -
2:30pm  For its 18th volume, Critical Planning explores
migration with a particular focus on its causes, consequences,
and responses. Migration is rarely a painless process, and
almost never a voluntary one. People move from the countryside
to the city, from the city to the suburbs (and back), and from
the developing world to the developed world in order to seek
employment, to flee political oppression or war, or to escape
the impending ravages of climate change. Such human flux
produces fertile ground for creative interactions among people
of diverse languages, cultures, and experiences. At the same
time, it can inspire adverse reactions, as seen in recent
immigration enforcement legislation in Arizona and the
proscription of minarets and headscarves in Europe.  The
innovative forces of global capitalism have manifested
themselves geographically through depopulation and disinvestment
in former leading centers of manufacturing. Reactions to thes