ACD is creating a digital resource repository — a library of useful community design resources that will be open and accessible to all through ACD’s website.
If you have any material to recommend — it can be a film, article, book, toolkit, podcast, or resources that you have used in the past or reference currently — we want to highlight materials that will help advance equity in the built environment and be an easily accessible site to revisit.
Please share your recommendations - a link, a pdf, etc - by emailing research@communitydesign.org
We are currently organizing and fundraising to share this collective database with our community and more broadly. Thank you!
A few articles outlining racism in the built environment
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Bryan Lee on the oppressive nature of cities and principles of Design Justice "America's Cities Were Designed to Oppress." Citylab. 3 June 2020
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Michael Ford calls on architects to respond to the continued, unprovoked and senseless murders of Black people in public spaces. "Architects, Designers and Planners: #BlackLivesMatter and You Must Speak Up!" Azure Magazine. 2 June 2020.
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Dr. Robert Bullard. "The Quest for Environmental Justice and the Politics of Place and Race." Climate Reality Project. 17 April 2020
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Lena V. Groeger on the many ways design decisions treat people unequally "Discrimination by Design." ProPublica. 1 Sept 2016
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Jaqueline Rabe Thomas "Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing." ProPublica. 22 May 2019.
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To understand racial inequality in America, start with housing. Preston Lauterbach "Memphis Burning" Places Journal. March 2016
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Ariel Ward on the critical thinking in our built environment practices “A Tale of Two Truths: Transportation and Nuance in the Time of COVID-19” Medium. 14 May 2020.
Leaders, Firms, and Voices we are following
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Design as Protest #DesignasProtest
Resources for People Who Benefit from White Supremacy to Begin or Continue Learning
- Pathways to Equity: A Design Leadership Experience for Social Equity
- Anti-Racism Design Resources
- White Supremacy Culture in Organizations
- A Letter to White Urbanists
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- Anti-Racism Resources
- For Our White Friends Desiring To Be Allies
- Anti-Racist Reading List
- 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
- How Latinx People Can Fight Anti-Black Racism in Our Own Culture
- South Asians for Black Lives
- Arabic Language Anti-Racism Resources
- Ongoing Effort to Translate "Letter to Parents" into many Asian languages