Coronavirus Is Not the Fuel For Urbanist Fantasies | Alissa Walker | Curbed
Over the past weeks HOMEschool articles have examined the ways we as planners can make radical changes to improve the places we call HOME. It must be our mission as planners to make these changes more than just skin deep. As this article attests, “If the coronavirus has made anything clear, it’s that cities cannot be fixed if we do not insist on dismantling the racial, economic, and environmental inequities that have made the pandemic deadlier for low-income and nonwhite residents.”
Violence Against Black Americans A Moment of Reckoning for the Planning Profession | James Brasuell | Planetizen
This article examines, “the duty of the planning profession to consider its role in perpetuating institutional racism,” exposing the reality that in many instances, “planning innovations claimed by progressives as victories of social and environmental justice in recent years are perpetuating institutional racism.” After reading this article – and the many suggested reading links it includes – challenge yourself to examine how the best laid plans in your community can push the envelope and become more inclusive.
Where is Home? Finding a Cultural Identity from an International Upbringing | Zoe Perkul | TEDxYouth@Berlin
When living in many different countries and geographies around the world, what gives the place you find yourself in at a particular moment in time that special and unique feeling of HOME? In this TEDx talk, Zoe Perkul explores this question and more.