Washington — Justin Garrett Moore and his partner were walking across a privately controlled public plaza in New York when they were suddenly confronted by security guards asking about their presence.
Julian Agyeman, a Tufts University planning professor, published an article in July referring to the history of urban planning being used as a “tool of white supremacy”.Healing citiesKurt Christiansen, president of the American Planning Association, said the effects of Floyd's death had to be viewed in the light of historical trauma inflicted on Black communities, including discrimination wrought by planners.
Efforts to infuse justice into urban design go back a century, but something feels different this summer, said Bryan Lee Jr, a designer and leader of a decade-old international movement called Design Justice. Pitter pointed to the spectrum of laws that govern many public spaces, covering loitering, indecency, noise and other issues. Many are rooted in racist laws of the past, “part of a larger set of laws that intentionally hem people in,” she said.Urban design’s ability to include or exclude is fundamental to its potential in responding to the current national discussion around race and inequality, planning experts say.
“What planners should be doing is figuring out how to make them accessible and safe, to realise that these are places where protest can happen, and to give opportunities to people to clearly be part of the public realm.” There is a role for designers to “create spaces of shared interaction, including outside protest,” Treskon said.Bringing people together was a key strategy for Memphis, Tennessee, when it sought to remake two little-used parks commemorating the Confederacy that had become flashpoints for community tension, according to organisers.
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