This book provides justification, a framework, and examples for an emergent alternative approach to planning and community development. Planning, design and community development have often been practiced in a monocultural way, as if all communities are the same, meaning that communities of color and low-income communities are often overlooked or ignored, if not outright harmed. This book highlights a new approach for transformative community development, where worldviews are rooted in the culture of communities of color and everyday people can find expression in decisions about a community’s future. This transformative approach gives voice to people on the margins, unapologetically embraces issues of social justice, and seeks to increase the overall health and wellbeing of the community. This book explores the motives, vision, tenets, and challenges of this transformative paradigm, and provides numerous case examples from the U.S. and Canada. Including a range of diverse contributors, chapters explore themes such as decolonial planning, climate injustice, Black planning, ethics, and more. This book is essential for professionals, students and professors of urban planning, design, and community development in the US.
Table of Contents:
Land Acknowledgment, Foreword, and Introduction Part I: Transformative Planning 1. Learning from Mel King: Transformative Planner, Activist, Educator and Thinker 2. Transformative Planning in Practice: Challenges and Strategies Part II: Planning from Black Communities/African Diaspora Perspectives 3. Black Planning Project’s 4P Approach: People, Place, Pedagogy and Practice 4. Perspectives from an Early 21st Century Black Planner Part III: Indigenous Planning/Tribal and Pacific Island Perspectives 5. Seven Generations: A Role for Artists in Zuni Place Knowing 6. Beyond Refusal: Balancing Colonial Land Ownership in Planning 7. Planning Against Imperialism: Towards a Global and Transnational Indigenous Planning Part IV: Planning from Latino Communities /Puerto Rican Perspectives 8. Strategies to Protect and Enhance the Political and Cultural Capital of Puerto Ricans in Chicago Part V: Housing 9. Beyond the House: Decolonial Housing for a Just Future Part VI: Ethics 10. Love Ethics to Guide Planning/Policy Transformation Part VII: Prison Abolition and Planning 11. A Place for Planning in Abolition and Transformative Justice? Part VIII: Political Mobilizing and Organizing 12. Mobilizing Communities of Color for Housing Policy Change Part IX: Storytelling and Film 13. Sa Amin: Our Place - Film’s Transformative Planning Potential Part X: Environmental and Climate Justice 14. Seeing Indigenous Peoples in Urban Environmental and Climate Justice: Transformations and Intersectionalities 15. A Blues Epistemology for Climate Futures
About the Author :
Sean Robin has worked for decades in New York in the community development field, including through promoting supportive housing and cooperative home ownership and through sponsoring authentically participatory processes. He is founding editor of Indigenous Planning Times, is on the steering committee of Planners Network and co-initiated the BIPOC Planning Collective.
