COVID 2020: RECOVERING FROM A TRIPLE WHAMMY
In Montréal, looking back on the last few months, we see how the repercussions of the pandemic hit us in waves, like a triple whammy. The...
PLACEMAKING WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTER
What would placemaking look like when Black lives matter?[i] Washington D.C.’s director of planning illustrated the racial limits of DIY...
ZONE, AND ZONE OUT
On November 15, 2011, Michael Bloomberg’s urban planning commissioner, Amanda Burden, co-chaired the Zoning the City conference. It was...
“NEGRO REMOVAL” REVISITED: URBAN PLANNING AND THE NEW JIM CROW IN KANSAS CITY
Academic men [sic] are inclined to ascribe an importance to knowledge all out of proportion to its actual role in human conduct. This is...
THE DRUG WAR, PRISONS, AND POLICE KILLINGS OF BLACK MEN
Photo Credit: JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY Early on New Year's Day 2009, a transit officer shot and killed Oscar Grant at BART's Fruitvale...
PRISONS, POLICING AND PLANNING: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS VISIBLE
In August 2014 attention turned towards Ferguson, Missouri as a Black teen was shot and killed by a police officer. This event, along...
VISION ZERO: RACISM, POLICING, AND RETHINKING SAFETY
Over the past two years, New York City has erupted in protest over the deaths of unarmed Black people at the hands of the police. In...
