How Race Shapes the American City

Architects and planners have an obligation to protect health, safety and welfare through the spaces we design. As the George Floyd protests reveal, we’ve failed.

How Better Homes in America—a collaboration between Herbert Hoover and the editor of a conservative women’s magazine—promoted idealized whiteness.

Areas that are changing economically often draw more police—creating conditions for more surveillance and more potential misconduct.

Planners and urbanists, it’s time to reckon with the racism rampant in city building. Here are four actions to take.

How our transportation system discriminates against the most vulnerable.

Placemaker and author Jay Pitter argues for an equity-based understanding of urban density during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044. But Census data show most of our neighbors are the same race.

Conversations in the world of design and urban planning can often get tied up on issues such as bike lanes and height limits, without considering the larger inequities our cities perpetuate — such as the ways in which the public space is policed.

An anti-racist architecture manifesto.