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David Maddox,
New York .
6 April 2014
Art, Science, Action: Green Cities Re-imagined
David Maddox, New York .
Other Essays on: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Why Design Matters
Jason Schupbach, Washington
My vision for a just city is one where design and its power as a tool against inequality is leveraged for the benefit of all residents. As the director of design programs at the National Endowment for Arts, and one of the U.S. government’s primary advocates for good design, I...
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Defining the Just City Beyond Black and White
Toni Griffin, New York City
When I think about the just city, it’s always black and white I was born in Chicago the evening before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. Growing up on the south side of Chicago meant that on an average day, I rarely saw or...
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Public Imagination, Citizenship and an Urgent Call for Justice
Teddy Cruz, San Diego Fonna Forman, San Diego
1. A just city repositions inequality The conversation about justice and the city must begin with directly confronting social and economic inequality and prioritizing them as the main issue around which institutions must be reorganized. Contemporary architectural and urban practices must engage this political project head-on. We must question the...
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In It Together
Lesley Lokko, Johannesburg
“[A city where] everything comes together . . . subjectivity and objectivity, the abstract and the concrete, the real and the imagined, the knowable and the unimaginable, the repetitive and the differential, structure and agency, mind and body, consciousness and the unconscious, the disciplined and the trans-disciplinary, everyday life and...
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SCIENCE &
TOOLS
5 April 2017
Response and Recovery After the Deadliest United States Tornado in a Century
On Sunday, 22 May 2011, a multiple-vortex tornado touched down shortly after 5:00pm and began to rip a path nearly a mile wide across Joplin, Missouri, through the town of Duquesne, and into the rural areas of Jasper County. The...
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PEOPLE &
COMMUNITITES
9 November 2016
Wouldn’t it be Better if Ecologists and Planners Talked to Each Other More?
If planners and ecologists found more ways to work together, would cities look different? Would they be better? The idea of planning and designing urban spaces from an ecological perspective goes back to the very origins of the disciplines of ecology, planning, and design. Frederic Law Olmsted precipitated a landmark movement from “picturesque” to “natural” urban spaces at the same time...
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PLACE &
DESIGN
22 March 2020
The Green Cloud, A Rooftop Story from Shenzhen: A “Living” Sponge Space Inside an Urban Village
用中文阅读 Shenzhen, a coastal city located in Southern China, exemplifies the idea of rapid urbanization. In just 40 years, Shenzhen has transformed from a fishing village to a bustling megalopolis. Today, about 50% of Shenzhen’s 13 million residents live in its...
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ART &
AWARENESS
10 September 2021
Two Reflections: Thinking About Blackness, Ecology, and Architecture in the United States
Read Brian McGrath’s reflection. Does architecture have a “color”? by Steward Pickett Does architecture have a “color”? In the United States, the answer seems to be yes. Architecture in the U.S. has been practiced largely by and for white people....
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