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Race + Urban Planning

  • Writer: Joseph Heathcott
    Joseph Heathcott
  • Dec 2, 2016
  • 1 min read

--Gordon Parks, "Two children living in low rent housing project, Daytona Beach, Florida." Photograph for the FSA/OWI, 1943.

Click the image above to read "Race, Planning, and the American City." I wrote this essay for Aggregate, a web-based architectural history collaborative, and their Black Lives Matter project. The essay takes up the challenge laid by pioneering planning scholar June Manning Thomas: to trace, and encourage the expansion of, the scholarly literature on the role of race and racism in the organization, planning, and design of American cities.

 
 
 

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