Urban Design and the Color-Line

Harvard GSD

This year we will focus on the Politics of Green Infrastructure in New York City.We cannot talk about physical infrastructures in the United States without also talking about power, and in the United States, power has long been organized through race. This course starts from the argument that, in a democratic-capitalist system, race functions as a tool of power: it constructs hierarchy so that land, labor, and public investment can be unevenly distributed for capital gain. Highways,…