Like the original New Deal, a Green New Deal can be a long deferred source of national planning for regional economic and environmental balance.
Catherine Tumber
Catherine Tumber, an independent scholar and journalist, is the author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (MIT Press, 2012). Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Baffler, Boston Review, In These Times, The Nation, and Raritan.
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The Neighborhood Activist as Prophet
How Jane Jacobs took on the planners—and how her legacy is at risk.