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Books

Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas This collection of essays presents an innovative and provocative set of concepts to understand the spaces of the Americas through local lenses. The disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter; however, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge in these fields originates in another continent and is external to the lived experience in such regions.
Publication Date: 2022
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary-gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city, and sustainable city.
Publication Date: 2021
Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities A cutting-edge, solutions-oriented analysis of how we can reimagine cities around the world to build sustainable futures.
Publication Date: 2021
Disruptive Urbanism, Glocal Urbanity This book is the first in a trilogy that proposes a new model of Glocal Urbanity that contributes to replace the degraded urban situation created from the post-Fordist transition to current globalization.
Call Number: HT361 .A24 2021
Planning Cities with Young People and Schools Offering the overlooked but essential viewpoint of young people from low-income communities of color and their public schools, Planning Cities With Young People and Schools offers an urgently needed set of best-practice recommendations for urban planners to change the status quo and reimagine the future of our cities for and with young people.
Publication Date: 2021
Futureproof City: Ten Immediate Paths to Urban Resilience The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis.
Publication Date: 2021
The Ideal City: Exploring Urban Futures This book chronicles the design of urban futures. From apps designed to curb food waste to inventive fresh water infrastructure, The Ideal City explores the many initiatives and experiments, all with the shared goal of making the cities of tomorrow a happier, healthier and more inclusive place to be.
Call Number: HT170 .I28 2021
Learning to Lead Together: An Ecological and Community Approach This book is an autoethnographic account of the challenges and breakthroughs of learning to lead together. The interwoven stories provide first-hand, evocative examples of how an ecological and community approach to organisational development and urban regeneration helped shift the business as usual paradigm.
Publication Date: 2021
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now."
Call Number: F264 .S685 H43 2021
Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment "This book offers insight into how redevelopment policy is implemented on the ground, articulates the political and social benefits of collective skepticism for communities of color, and critiques the partial perspectives dominant in social capital and community development studies."
Call Number: HT168 .C5 G66 2021
Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities How can urban leaders in Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis make the smart choices that can lead their city to make a comeback? The urban centers of New York City, Seattle, and San Francisco have enjoyed tremendous economic success and population growth in recent years. At the same time, cities like Baltimore and Detroit have experienced population loss and economic decline. People living in these cities are not enjoying the American Dream of upward mobility. How can post-industrial cities struggling with crime, pollution, poverty, and economic decline make a comeback? In Unlocking the Potential of Post-
Publication Date: 2021
Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging This new book by Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni, seeks to understand how cities and buildings--scarred by conflict, blight, and pandemic--can be healed through design and urban mindfulness.
Call Number: NA687 .A47 2021
The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future―the majority-minority narrative―which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. The Great Demographic Illusion reveals that this narrative obscures a more transformative development: the rising numbers of young Americans from ethno-racially mixed families, consisting of one white and one nonwhite parent. Examining the unprecedented significance of mixed parentage in the twenty-first-century United States, Richard Alba looks at how young Americans with this background will play pivotal roles in the country’s demographic future.
Publication Date: 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People A thorough and practical resource for all who wish to influence policy and design decisions in order to increase young people's access to and use of public spaces, as well as their role in design and decision-making processes.
Publication Date: 2020
The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with "urban crisis," the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966-1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life.
Publication Date: 2020
Who Plans the Planning? Architecture, Politics and Mankind From the 1950s, Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) focused on planning, design, and construction in a democracy. His astute observations and critical analysis have had a fundamental effect on the design of our environment, on teaching in the architectural/planning professions, and on our understanding of what "city" means. His research, which - between mighty commercial interests and conflicting political aspirations focuses on the benefit for the entire population - is indispensable when and wherever buildings are planned, designed, built, and inhabited.
Publication Date: 2020
Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer Ethical Design Intelligence explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design.
Publication Date: 2020
Designing Cultures of Care Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, are exploring the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care. Unique in its focus and disciplinary diversity, this edited collection develops an expanded discourse on the role and contribution of design to our broader social, cultural and material challenges. Based around a unifying critique of the proposition of care as a theoretical framework for undertaking design research in real world contexts, each chapter presents a case study of design research in action.
Publication Date: 2019
Design (&) Activism The book focuses on theories and practices related to the role of Design in terms of addressing, provoking and creating political discourse. Starting from traditional forms of protest, visual languages of resistance, to new forms of digital participation, this will help us to better understand the rituals, structures and meanings of design activism in history and the present, clarifying that design is intrinsically social and supremely political.
Call Number: NK1520 .D454X 2019
Temporary Appropriation in Cities Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city. The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation, and touches on its relationship to issues such as: sustainability and building re-use; culture; inclusivity, including socio-spatial inclusion; streetscape design; homelessness; and regulations controlling the use of public spaces.
Publication Date: 2019
Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America Through a compelling narrative and eye-catching charts and maps, eminent demographer William H. Frey interprets and expounds on the dramatic growth of minority populations in the United States. He finds that without these expanding groups, America could face a bleak future: this new generation of young minorities, who are having children at a faster rate than whites, is infusing our aging labor force with vitality and innovation.
Publication Date: 2018
Resilience for All: Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design Barbara Brown Wilson looks at less conventional, but often more effective methods to make communities more resilient. She takes an in-depth look at what equitable, positive change through community-driven design looks like in four communities--East Biloxi, Mississippi; the Lower East Side of Manhattan; the Denby neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan; and the Cully neighborhood in Portland, Oregon.
Call Number: HT167 .W55 2018
The Divided City Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach shows us what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He draws from his decades of experience working in America’s cities, and pulls in insightful research and data, to spotlight these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social, and political context. Mallach explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City offers strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity.
Publication Date: 2018
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.
Publication Date: 2018
The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy.
Publication Date: 2018
Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy By reconsidering historic concepts from aesthetic philosophy and weaving them with emerging intellectual positions from a variety of disciplines, Mark Foster Gage sets out to design a more encompassing social theory for how humanity perceives its very reality, and how it might begin to more justly define that reality through new ways of reconsidering the built environment.
Publication Date: 2018
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York.
Call Number: HT175 .M67 2017
The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines some of the policies, practices, and physical artifacts that have been used by planners, policymakers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists, and other urban actors in the United States to draw, erase, or redraw the lines that divide.
Call Number: NA680 .A753 2017
Design As Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts.
Publication Date: 2017
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.
Publication Date: 2016
Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity Using Toronto as a case study, Subdivided asks how cities would function if decision-makers genuinely accounted for race, ethnicity, and class when confronting issues such as housing, policing, labor markets, and public space. With essays contributed by an array of city-builders, it proposes solutions for fully inclusive communities that respond to the complexities of a global city.
Publication Date: 2016
Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane.
Call Number: HT167 .G665 2016
Urban Policy in the Time of Obama Urban Policy in the Time of Obama explores a broad range of policy arenas that shape, both directly and indirectly, metropolitan areas and urbanization processes. It finds that most of the dominant policies and policy regimes of recent years have fallen short of easing the ills of America’s cities, and calls for a more equitable and just urban policy regime.
Call Number: HT123 .U74657 2016
Spatializing Blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago A geographic study of race and gender, Spatializing Blackness casts light upon the ubiquitous--and ordinary--ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, Rashad Shabazz explores the myriad architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, urban planning, and incarceration.
Publication Date: 2015
Diversity and Design: Understanding Hidden Consequences Diversity and Design explores how design - whether of products, buildings, landscapes, cities, media, or systems - affects diverse members of society.
Publication Date: 2015
Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design establishes essential foundations for thinking about humanitarian design and its role in global change. Outlining a vital framework for designing for impoverished and disaster-stricken communities, this informative guide explores the integration of culture, art, architecture, economy, ecology, health, and education.
Publication Date: 2015
Policy, Planning, and People: Promoting Justice in Urban Development Policy, Planning, and People presents original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban policy and planning. The volume includes theoretical and practice-based essays that integrate social equity considerations into state-of-the-art discussions of findings in a variety of planning issues.
Publication Date: 2013
The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit The first sustained study of Detroit s alternative urban cultures, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit initiates a new focus on Detroit as a site not only of urban crisis but also of urban possibility. The Guide documents art and curatorial practices, community and guerilla gardens, urban farming and forestry, cultural platforms, living archives, evangelical missions, temporary public spaces, intentional communities, furtive monuments, outsider architecture, and other work made possible by the ready availability of urban space in Detroit.
Publication Date: 2012
Barrio Urbanism: Chicanos, Planning, and American cities This, the first book on Latinos in America from an urban planning/policy perspective, covers the last century, and includes a substantial historical overview the subject. The authors trace the movement of Latinos (primarily Chicanos) into American cities from Mexico and then describe the problems facing them in those cities. They then show how the planning profession and developers consistently failed to meet their needs due to both poverty and racism.
Publication Date: 2005
Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century Wiese explores how the civil rights movement emboldened black families to purchase homes in the suburbs with increased vigor, and how the passage of civil rights legislation helped pave the way for today's black middle class. Tracing the precise contours of black migration to the suburbs over the course of the whole last century and across the entire United States, "Places of Their Own" will be a foundational book for anyone interested in the African American experience or the role of race and class in the making of America's suburbs.
Publication Date: 2004
Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb This book - the first history of a black middle-class community - tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanisation and the ways in which residential development in the suburbs has been shaped by race and class.
Publication Date: 2001

Articles and Journals

Urban Planning Urban Planning is an international peer-reviewed open access journal of urban studies aimed at advancing understandings and ideas of humankind’s habitats.

Can Design Be Devious?
The story of the Robert Moses bridges over the Long Island parkways, and other explorations of unexpected political consequences of design.
10 Principles for Embedding Racial Equity in Real Estate Development "The 10 Principles for Embedding Racial Equity in Real Estate Development reflect ULI’s response to member calls for guidance on equitable development and the role the real estate industry has played in creating and perpetuating injustices, as well as workshop participants’ expertise and experiences, and ULI’s mission to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide."

Arboleda, G. (2020). Beyond participation: Rethinking social design. Journal of Architectural Education, 74(1), 15-25.

Hardy, J. (2020). Leveraging creative placemaking in equitable development. Urban Land.

Lipsitz, G. (2007). The racialization of space and the spatialization of race: theorizing the hidden architecture of landscape. Landscape Journal, 26(1), 10-23.

Oh, the Humanities!. (2022). Interview: Dana Cuff, cityLAB. OTH.

Online Resources

American Planning Association Social Equity Knowledgebase Collection
Resources that provide background, policy guidance, and examples of local plan recommendations and zoning standards for social equity from across the country.
Black Voices on the City: A Resource Guide
Black Voices on the City is a student-organized database that aims to accomplish two things: first, to catalog contributions of Black researchers and practitioners to the field of urban planning, and second, to amplify Black voices in a field that has been overwhelmingly dominated by white, cisgender, heterosexual men since its beginnings.
Design for the Just City
The Just City Lab investigates the definition of urban justice and the just city and examines how design and planning contribute to conditions of justice and injustice in cities, neighborhoods and the public realm.
Ethical Redevelopment
“Ethical redevelopment” is urbanism focused on equity, and equity is an American tradition. Ethical redevelopment happens when public artists, architects, designers, urban planners, and other thought leaders engage in thoughtful city building—in particular, when they use this mind-set to breathe new life into neighborhoods that have been overlooked. [Forecast]

ICUD: Index to Current Urban Documents This link opens in a new window
Reports and research generated by local governments, civic organizations, and academic institutions; core of collection deals with budget, architecture and planning.

The New York City Social Housing Development Authority: A People First Housing Engine for New York City
A detailed report that recommends municipality backed social housing. Co-authored by the Urban Democracy Lab.
urbanNEXT
"urbanNext’s main goal is to generate a global network to produce content focused on rethinking architecture through the contemporary urban milieu —urbanity that is conditioned by the specificities of the information society, sustainable awareness, globalized knowledge and leisure."

Streaming Media

How Can Designers Fight for Racial Equity? / Germane Barnes. The Archiologist (podcast). June 25, 2020.

Unlocking the Possible with Diversity of Thought and Human Potential. The Smart Community Podcast. July 17, 2022.

Architecture: SoA Race & Inclusion Resources: Urban Design & Planning

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