Planning for Justice

Resources for built environment practitioners fostering more equal, healthy and sustainable places. A project of students/faculty @lsegeography & friends.

[Planning for Justice @planningjustice]

We are live! Planning for Justice is a collaborative, digital resource library and global research initiative on the relationship between urban planning and systemic inequality. Read our inaugural blog posts and learn how to get involved here:
https://t.co/H1fGyDDQ4l

[Planning for Justice @planningjustice]

We're excited to have connected with @FaimaBakar for her excellent and timely @MetroUK piece on the intersection of climate and urban justice. https://t.co/8vptV70l3V

[Planning for Justice @planningjustice]

"Illuminate: Covid-19" uses a video-LED lightbox to visualise the pandemic's impact on different NYC communities. Project Manager & RUPS alum Alexandra Payne discusses health and digital inequality in our latest blog. https://t.co/o53I4vFnNz

[Planning for Justice @planningjustice]

As planners, we should be wary of how smart city marketing can construct false narratives of "community" that actually obstruct efforts toward more meaningful public engagement and equitable design practice, argues RUPS alum Spencer Wicks
https://t.co/oPE0OKM5w0

[Willow Lung-Amam @drlungamam]

Urban inequality scholars: I'd love to see more writing linking segregation and white nationalism. We often write about segregation's impact on concentrated poverty, opportunity hoarding & wealth disparities, but not incubating & shielding white supremacist ideologies & violence.

[Planning for Justice @planningjustice]

Plans to close a New York City prison and convert it into a renewable energy hub could either enact restorative justice through the built environment - or, spearhead green gentrification, writes RUPS alum Katie Mulkowsky https://t.co/Z2Ys1lmLeU

[Planning for Justice @planningjustice]

The need for planners to consider how they operate within a racially unequal society has been on the UK planning agenda since the 1980s. But planning deregulation has exacerbated problems that disproportionately impact Black communities, writes Koen Rutten https://t.co/HXpKZOe4r9

[Yeampierre @yeampierre]

Sadly, she is not the first, but tragically the first to have air pollution documented as the cause of death 🖤https://t.co/gXerMw8nTR

[Planning for Justice @planningjustice]

Despite being one of the most civically active groups, in 2019 black women comprised just 3% of urban planning employees. Lindiwe Rennert imagines a paradigm shift: From an industry reckoning with white supremacy to one teeming with Black women. https://t.co/db21hcFQMK

[LSE London @lse_london]

Today we launch @planningjustice a coalition of LSE students, alumni and faculty in Regional and Urban Planning Studies, crafting a digital library and promoting research on the relationship between urban planning and systemic inequality.

Learn more on https://t.co/N8UMIhhcie

[Centre for London @centreforlondon]

Most Londoners report getting on with people from different backgrounds, but @Blklivesmatter protests have renewed the spotlight on racism and the politics of public space in London.

Read our blog on addressing structural inequality in the capital: https://t.co/5btP24Fi9O

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

"There are similarities between Black Lives Matter and the UK protests in the 1980s. The British publication Race Today chronicled black & immigrant communities and reflects on both movements." Read more of Leila Hassan's
Farruk Dhondy's article below:
https://t.co/NEbzj1crDB

[J. G. Moore @jgmoore]

It’s Time for Architects to Accept Responsibility https://t.co/2GB4vwkpWx via @Curbed

[American Association of Geographers @theAAG]

“Despite our understanding of colonial thought and power, geographers — like many other scholars — are less willing to look inward.” Hamilton shares her experiences as a Black Geographer navigating systemic racism built within geography & the academy https://t.co/RSzhzGVs2i

[Planning for Justice @planningjustice]

Crediting our cover image to @unequalscenes https://t.co/1s634VnO6D