• Project Description
  • Life / Legacy
  • Writing / Speeches
  • Interviews
  • Advocacy Planning
  • Additional Resources
The Davidoff Tapes Project
  • Project Description
  • Life / Legacy
  • Writing / Speeches
  • Interviews
  • Advocacy Planning
  • Additional Resources

 Advocacy Plans

Paul Davidoff criticized mainstream urban planning in the early 1960s for its support of elite business and development interests over those of poor and working-class 

communities, especially those of color. He called for the democratization of planning by encouraging professionals to devote a portion of their time to preparing high-quality advocacy plans for marginalized communities. These advocacy plans, developed with a high level of citizen input, would offer Planning Commissions an alternate perspective in planning for specific neighborhoods, thereby, improving the quality of official plan-making for these areas. 

LIBRARY OF PLANS
ARTICLES ABOUT ADVOCACY PLANNING
LEGAL WORK
DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
SUBMITTING YOUR ADVOCACY PLAN

 Library of Plans 

THE PEOPLE'S PLAN
RAMAPO MOUNTAIN
THE VANCE AVENUE COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION PLAN
SOUTH MEMPHIS REVITALIZATION ACTION PLAN
ORIGINS OF THE SOUTH MEMPHIS RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE
ADVOCACY PLANNING
PAALF:PEOPLE'S PLAN
LESSONS FROM EL BARRIO

The People’s Plan

Book   I   ACORN, University of Illinois, Cornell University, Columbia University, NSF   I   Pages 1 – 23   I   Published 2006

The essence of politics is who gets what. Or call it distributive justice. The public planning process as a part of the political system is inextricably related to the distributional question facing communities in which planners work.

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Ramapo Mountain: A New Community in Mahwah, New Jersey

Book   I   Garden Cities Development Corporation   I   Pages 1 – 33   I  Published September 6,
1972

Ramapo Mountain is a new community proposed by Garden Cities Development Corporation. It will be located in Mahwah, New Jersey, thirty minutes from New York City.

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The Vance Avenue Community Transformation Plan

Book   I   University of Memphis   I   Pages 1 – 105  I   Published September 13, 2012

The suburbanization of population and jobs in the metro-I political regions is an accomplished fact. Rather than, fighting this movement, urban development policy’ should work with it to assure equal access to suburban land and jobs for all citizens of the regions.

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South Memphis Revitalization Plan

Executive Summary   I   University of Memphis   I   Pages 1 – 17   I  Published September, 2009

The suburbanization of population and jobs in the metro-I political regions is an accomplished fact. Rather than, fighting this movement, urban development policy’ should work with it to assure equal access to suburban land and jobs for all citizens of the regions.

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Origins of the South Memphis Renaissance Colaborative

Book   I   University of Memphis   I   Pages 1 – 130  I   Published 2009

The essence of politics is who gets what. Or call it distributive justice. The public planning process as a part of the political system is inextricably related to the distributional question facing communities in which planners work.

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Advocacy Planning 

Journal article   I  Marcia Marker Feld & Patricia Baron Pollak   I   Pages 3 – 6  I  Published 2010

Advocacy planning represents a departure from scientific, objective, or rational planning, which was the dominant paradigm of the post-World War II era. It is premised upon the inclusion of the different interests involved in the planning process itself.

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The Portland African American Leadership Forum “People’s Plan”

Book   I   Dr. Lisa K. Bates   I   Pages 1 – 138  I  Published June 23, 2015

The Portland African American Leadership Forum envisions a world where people of African descent, enjoy the rights, resources and recognition to be a thriving, resilient and connected community.

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“Lessons from El Barrio – The East Harlem Real Great Society/Urban Planning Studio: A Puerto Rican Chapter in the Fight for Urban Self-Determination.” 

Journal Article   I  Louis Aponte- Pares,  I   Pages 399-420  I  Published 1998

This article chronicles the early history of the East Harlem Real Great Society/Urban Planning Studio which was a collaborative effort by Puerto Rican activists and design professionals to enhance the quality of life in two important immigrant areas of New York Cities during the mid-1960s. 

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 Articles About Advocacy Planning 

COMMUNITIES & INTERESTS IN ADVOCACY PLANNING
BRIDGING INTERESTS & COMMUNITY
THE EVOLUTION OF ADVOCACY PLANNING
WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVOCACY PLANNING
ADVOCACY PLANNING IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
14 YEARS OF SUBURBAN ACTION AND METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE
NEW YORK CITY'S HOUSING CRISIS
THE CASE OF ADVOCACY PLANNING: LIMITS IN PLANNING PRACTICE

Communities & Interests in Advocacy Planning 

Journal article   I   Lisa R. Peattie    I   Pages 151 – 153   I   Published spring, 1994

The essence of politics is who gets what. Or call it distributive justice. The public planning process as a part of the political system is inextricably related to the distributional question facing communities in which planners work.

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Bridging Interests & Community
Advocacy Planning and the Challenges of deliberative Democracy

Journal article   I   John Forester   I   Pages 153 – 158   I   Published spring, 1994

The suburbanization of population and jobs in the metro-I political regions is an accomplished fact. Rather than, fighting this movement, urban development policy’ should work with it to assure equal access to suburban land and jobs for all citizens of the regions.

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The Evolution of Advocacy Planning

Journal article   I   Pierre Clavel   I   Pages 146 – 149   I   Published spring, 1994

The suburbanization of population and jobs in the metro-I political regions is an accomplished fact. Rather than, fighting this movement, urban development policy’ should work with it to assure equal access to suburban land and jobs for all citizens of the regions.

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We Shall Not Be Moved
Hank William Village and the Legacy of Advocacy Planning

Journal article   I   Roger Guy   I   Pages 159 – 175   I   Published 2013

The essence of politics is who gets what. Or call it distributive justice. The public planning process as a part of the political system is inextricably related to the distributional question facing communities in which planners work.

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Advocacy Planning in the Age of Trump: An Opportunity to Influence National Urban Policy 

Journal article   I Kenneth Reardon & Antonio Raciti   I  Pages 606-611   I  Published 2019 

The essence of politics is who gets what. Or call it distributive justice. The public planning process as a part of t… In 1965, Paul Davidoff, reflecting upon growing racial inequality in American society, wrote, ‘Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning’ which challenged several of the most important assumptions underlying the rational model of planning which dominated mid-century professional practice in the United States and Europe (Davidoff, 1965)….

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Up Close and Personal 

What One Planner Learned in a 55-Year Career That Has Paralleled the Major Events of the Time 

Journal article   I   Floyd Lapp    I   Pages 60 – 68   I   Published  2018

Growing up in a shifting urban environment during the major socioeconomic transition in the Bronx(NY) in the 1950s and 1960s, my interests in neighborhood change peaked with the changes in housing, the impact of urban renewal, the need for more open-space recreation, the arrival of the interstate highways, and the new faces of the population… 

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14 years of Suburban Action and Metropolitan Institute

Report I   History of Metropolitan Institute at Queen’s College 

Metropolitan action is planning and civil right groups with particular focus on issues of housing and regional development

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New York City’s Housing Crisis
Private Development and Public Need 

Working Conference Agenda   I   Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development    I   Dec 12    1983  

A working conference on the established of inclusionary zoning and a housing trust fund for affordable housing in New York.

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The Case of Advocacy Planning: The limits for pluralism as a basis for policy and planning practice 

Thesis: Degree of Master of City planning and Master of Architecture I Yanni Pyrgiotis  I  Published 1972

This thesis attempts to examine and explain the limitations of the outcomes of advocacy planning and to suggest ways through which these limitations can be overcome. 

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National Conference on Advocacy and Pluralistic Planning 

Brochure   I     Paul Davidoff  I  January 10 and 11, 1969

On January 10 and 11, 1969 Paul Davidoff  organized a national conference to consider the future of advocacy planning. The attached document is the program pressure for this event which was entitled, National Conference on  Advocacy and Pluralistic Planning.

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Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown: A legal Symposium  

Brochure   I    Center for Metropolitan Action     I  November 14, 1983

On November 14, 1983, Center for Metropolitan Action, CUNY Graduate School , American Planing Association and Pratt Institute for Community and Environmental Development organized a conference on Inclusionary zoning . 

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 Legal Work 

Oakwood at Madison Corp

Oakwood at Madison Corp v Towship of Madison 

Docket No. L-7502-70 P.W (283 A.2d 353, 117 N.J. Super 11, 3 ERC 1541) (N.J. Super . Ct. October 27, 1971) 

A municipality which zoned large tracts of land exclusively for low-density high-cost housing on the grounds that the township needed a “breathing spell” from fast population growth, may not use that zoning law as means of evading its fair proportion of the obligation to meet the housing need of its own population and of the region.

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 Development Activities 

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