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  • October, 2015

    28 October 2015

    Singapore’s Life in the Trees
    Geoffrey Davison, Singapore Lena Chan, Singapore

    Roadside trees are not merely roadside trees. Roadside trees are living condominiums, packed with other organisms. They are functioning communities, complete with food chains, predators and prey, nutrient capture, nutrient cycling and recycling, and an organisational hierarchy. They extend their influence vertically upwards, horizontally and downwards. They are ecosystems in...

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    26 October 2015

    Granny Flats and a Sponge House: Rethinking Necessities for the Future of Communities Along the Los Angeles River
    Allison Palenske, Edinburgh

    A review of “Shelter,” an exhibition on view at the Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles until Nov. 6, 2015. Although recent efforts to mitigate the characteristic poor air quality and largely suburban character of Los Angeles have been the focus of much debate and action, the city still faces...

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    25 October 2015

    A Collaborative Project in City Planning for Urban Biodiversity in Japan
    Keitaro Ito, Fukutsu City

    From 2014, we have been taking part in a project in city planning for urban biodiversity in Fukutsu city, Japan. Our lab (Keitaro Ito laboratory, Kyushu Institute of Technology) has been directing the project in collaboration with Fukutsu city and high school students from Fukuoka Koryo high school and Fukuoka...

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    23 October 2015

    The Case for All In Cities
    Angela Glover Blackwell, New York

    People of color are at the center of a demographic shift that will fundamentally change the global urban landscape. From the growing proportions of Latino, Asian, and African American residents in resurgent cities of the United States, to the diversifying capitals of Europe and the booming metropolises of Asia, Africa,...

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    23 October 2015

    Home-Grown Justice In a Legacy City
    Karen Freeman-Wilson, Gary

    I am the mayor of a legacy city, a city that rose and fell on the fluctuations of an industrial marketplace.  Like Detroit, Cleveland, and dozens of other cities that have experienced continuous population and job loss since their peak, my hometown of Gary, Indiana, once provided the backbone of...

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    23 October 2015

    How To Build a New Civic Infrastructure
    Ben Hecht, Washington

    In the United States of America cities have long been gateways to opportunity. For centuries, people from all over the country and the world, including my own grandparents, came to our cities chasing the promise of a better life. America’s bargain with its citizens, rich and poor was, in many...

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    23 October 2015

    Justice from the Ground Up
    Julie Bargmann, Charlottesville

    Soil contamination is a baseline condition for most of the sites I’ve worked on over the past two decades. The toxic imprint derives from industry—steel production, shipbuilding, fabrication of automobile and machine parts, to name just a few—in both urban and rural settings. But it also comes from lead-containing gasoline...

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    23 October 2015

    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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    23 October 2015

    Resistance, Education and the Collective Will of the Just City
    Jack Travis, New York City

    What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer. And all consumers know that when the producer names the tune, the consumer has got to dance. That’s the way it is. We used to be a producer—very inflexible at that,...

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    23 October 2015

    The Long Ride
    Scot Spencer, Baltimore

    If you have never been to Baltimore, you should come to visit. From Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, you can ride the light rail to downtown in 25 minutes for one of the best deals in the country. If you ride the train between Boston and Washington, you can...

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    23 October 2015

    Up From the Basement: The Artist and the Making of the Just City
    Theaster Gates, Chicago

    Governance, despite its own hopes for a universality of exclusion, is for the inducted, for those who know how to articulate interests disinterestedly, those who vote and know why they vote (not because someone is black or female but because he or she is smart), who have opinions and want...

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    23 October 2015

    Urban Spaces and the Mattering of Black Lives 
    Darnell Moore, New York

    It was close to midnight. A youngish, jovial-looking white woman with russet colored hair ran by me with ostensive ease. She donned earphones and dark, body-fitting jogging attire. I was walking home from the A train stop and along Lewis Avenue, which is a moderately busy thoroughfare that runs through...

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    23 October 2015

    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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    23 October 2015

    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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    23 October 2015

    An Antidote for the Unjust City: Planning to Stay
    Mindy Thompson Fullilove, New York City

    In 1993 or thereabouts I entered a contest for women to depict what they did on a particular day. That day, I went to meetings early in the morning at Harlem Hospital. I took photos of the abandoned buildings on West 136th, where I parked my car, and photos of...

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    23 October 2015

    Creating Universal Goals for Universal Growth
    Betsy Hodges, Minneapolis

    There is a difference between equality and equity. Equality says that everybody can participate in our success and equity says we need to make sure that everybody actually does participate in our success and in our growth. A just city is a city free from both inequity and inequality. We...

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    23 October 2015

    Justice that Serves People, Not Institutions
    Mirna Goransky, Buenos Aires

    The purpose of this essay is to share some considerations about the meaning of “just City” from the perspective of a lawyer dedicated to the reform of justice administration and, in particular, to the design of systems that promote, encourage and facilitate the approach of justice for the people. This...

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    23 October 2015

    A Democratic Infrastructure for Johannesburg
    Ben Bradlow, Boston

    There are two main legacies that define urban inequality in South Africa: housing and transport. Apartheid was not only a racial ideology. It was also a spatial planning ideology. Johannesburg’s development into a wealthy, white core of business and residential activity, with peripheral black dormitory townships, was a result of...

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    22 October 2015

    Cape Town Pride. Cape Town Shame
    Carla Sutherland, Cape Town

    I have lived in an array of fascinating cities, and visited a host of others. I have loved many (New York, Hong Kong, Harare and Berlin); been miserable in a few (London and Pretoria); oddly disappointed by some (San Francisco, Dublin and Sydney) overwhelmed by others (Shanghai and Cairo); and...

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    22 October 2015

    A City That Is Blue, Green and Just All Over
    Cecilia Herzog, Rio de Janeiro

    Since humans settled about 10,000 years ago, we have significantly altered and explored the landscape to create the civilization we now have. The landscape has been a source of material and non-material resources, feeding us in all senses. Ecologically rich landscapes associated with technologies were essential for all societies to...

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