U of T researchers help design blueprint for Black food sovereignty in Toronto
- U of T researchers help design blueprint for Black food sovereignty in Toronto
- Three Ways Big Cities Can Draw In Citizens In The Next 10 Years @forbes
Three Ways Big Cities Can Draw In Citizens In The Next 10 Years @forbes
- Cities of despair - or opportunity?
Cities of despair - or opportunity?
- Perkins Eastman: Transformative Thinking: Building re-use and upgrades should be the default over teardown and new construction for a more sustainable future.
Transformative Thinking: Building re-use and upgrades should be the default over teardown and new construction for a more sustainable future.
- Introducing Perkins Eastman Strategies: Future Growth Goes Beyond Architecture
Introducing Perkins Eastman Strategies: Future Growth Goes Beyond Architecture
- In Search of the Black Utopia
In Search of the Black Utopia
- 8 Black Designers Challenging the Status Quo With Socially Impactful Work
Wielding design as a tool for empowering underserved communities, these visionary Black architects and designers are paving the way for a more ethical future.
- 11 Black Urbanists Every Planner Should Know
From the first Black planner to a celebrated photographer, we recognize the people who have helped us understand how cities work — and how we can help make them better
- America’s Lost Towns of Black Affluence
America’s Lost Towns of Black Affluence
- Black Design Still Matters
In 2014, students of color at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design were wondering how they could better impact social justice issues. Less than three years later, they’ve built a movement.
- 10 African-American urbanist leaders
10 African-American urbanist leaders
- Reflecting On “Race, Power, And Urban Spaces” And the Changing Landscape Of African American Urban Communities
Reflecting On “Race, Power, And Urban Spaces” And the Changing Landscape Of African American Urban Communities
- How Urban Design Perpetuates Racial Inequality–And What We Can Do About It
Our cities weren’t created equal. But they don’t have to stay that way.
- 9 Brilliant Black Designers and Architects You Should Know
Today’s top black designers and architects tell us about their design philosophies—and speak about diversity in the field
- Why Harvard GSD's Black in Design Conference Is Needed Now, According to Its Student Organizers
Why Harvard GSD's Black in Design Conference Is Needed Now, According to Its Student Organizers
- Why Black in Design Matters: Learnings from the Harvard conference:
Unapologetically black: Harvard’s Black in Design conference is shifting the paradigm of Black design by reframing pedagogical practices, building interdisciplinary collaborations, and contributing new thought and scholarship to the history and development of architecture and design, while offering distinct elements..
- Black in Design 2021: “Black Matter”
The Black in Design conference, organized by the Harvard Graduate School of Design African American Student Union, recognizes the contributions of the African diaspora to the design fields and promotes discourse around the agency of the design professions to address..
- Meet the Black design collective reimagining how cities get built - BlackSpace
Meet the Black design collective reimagining how cities get built - Urban planning often neglects or harms communities of color by cutting them out of the decision-making process. BlackSpace, a collective of architects, designers, artists, and urban planners, is quietly..
- Public Space in North American Cities
Public Space in North American Cities
- Project for Public Spaces: Ten Strategies for Transforming Cities and Public Spaces through Placemaking
Project for Public Spaces: Ten Strategies for Transforming Cities and Public Spaces through Placemaking
- Black Urbanists Are Leading the Fight for More Inclusive Cities:
Black city planning experts on inclusion in urban planning and why everyone needs to pay attention to transportation.
- Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan
Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan
- Urban Land Institute: Successful Public Private Partnerships From Principles to Practices
Ten years ago, the Urban Land Institute published Ten Principles for Successful Public/Private Partnerships. That publication set forth core principles essential for successful accomplishment of joint development by the public and private sectors, benefiting both, that neither could achieve independently.
- Structuring the Deal to be Profitable Fundamental Skills for Real Estate Development II
Structuring the Deal to be Profitable Fundamental Skills for Real Estate Development II
- Structuring the Deal to be Profitable Fundamental Skills for Real Estate Development I
Structuring the Deal to be Profitable Fundamental Skills for Real Estate Development I
- Real Estate Structuring
Real Estate Structuring
- Urban Land Institute: Ten Principles for Rethinking the Mall
Ten Principles for Rethinking the Mall
- Urban Land Institute: Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail
Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail
- Urban Land Institute: Ten Principles for Developing Successful Town Centers
Ten Principles for Developing Successful Town Centers
- Urban Land Institute: Ten Principles for Developing Affordable Housing
Ten Principles for Developing Affordable Housing seeks to help those who wish to develop housing for low- and moderate-income households understand what it takes to make affordable housing projects happen. It also seeks to help policy makers and community leaders..
- On the Waterfront: The main currents in Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Work - Nashville Waterfront Project
On the Waterfront: The main currents in Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Work - Nashville Waterfront Project It’s a crisp spring morning in Nashville when officials from Metro Nashville Planning Department join Perkins Eastman principals Vaughan Davies and Eric Fang on board..
- NAHB: Land Development Checklist
Land development today involves a rigorous, comprehensive set of evaluations and approvals involving multiple parties in both the private and public sectors
- KPMG Real Estate Innovations Overview
Digital transformation of industries is more present than ever in this year’s overview We recognize that especially developments in the digitizing field are becoming the cornerstone of many innovations globally We foresee that an acceleration of adoption is facilitated due..
- The BlackSpace Manifesto: Creating Black Spaces in the Built Environment
The BlackSpace collective brings together planners, architects, artists, and designers as Black urbanists, people who are passionate about the work of public systems and urban infrastructures.
- 10 Black Architects Who Shaped American Cities
They fought racial inequality in architecture and shaped the skylines we know today
- Black Urban Design in a "Changing America"
"The city is the black man's land," reads one capsule in an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Its curator explains why design is a critical part of the post-1968 urban and suburban landscape—and..
- Nashville: Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Design Projects
Nashville: Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Design Projects
- Confronting Urban Design’s Diversity Crisis With a Return to Black Places
An initiative taking shape at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture wants to disrupt conventional notions of planning.
- The case for AfroUrbanism: AfroUrbanism centers the lived experience of black people in the design and creation of black communities.
It puts black culture at the fore, taking into account the past harms, current challenges, and future aspirations of black city dwellers. AfroUrbanism goes beyond Black folks practicing traditional urbanism, it explicitly requires us to employ our cultural fluency; that..
- Conversation to action: Urban planning resource to address anti-Black racism in cities
Conversation to action: Urban planning resource to address anti-Black racism in cities
- To build safe streets, we need to address racism in urban design
To build safe streets, we need to address racism in urban design
- Urban planning can’t happen without black people in the room—Yet it does
Urban planning can’t happen without black people in the room—Yet it does
- Nashville: Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan
Nashville: Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan