The Role of History in Planning the Just City

2-0-4 units · Graduate

Explores a series of diverse urban landscapes as public history, with a focus on cases of African-American landscapes and landscapes of other racial or ethnic minorities and the stories they hold. To deepen an understanding and discussion of these cases, an author/leader of each case joins the class session. Topics include: the relationship between history and memory; as well as how overlooked or silenced histories can be unearthed, honored, and told through urban design and planning.