To Learn and To Share | Association for Community Design

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

Bryan Lee on the oppressive nature of cities and principles of Design Justice "America's Cities Were Designed to Oppress." Citylab. 3 June 2020
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.
Dr. Robert Bullard. "The Quest for Environmental Justice and the Politics of Place and Race." Climate Reality Project. 17 April 2020
Lena V. Groeger on the many ways design decisions treat people unequally "Discrimination by Design." ProPublica. 1 Sept 2016
Jaqueline Rabe Thomas "Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing." ProPublica. 22 May 2019.
To understand racial inequality in America, start with housing. Preston Lauterbach "Memphis Burning" Places Journal. March 2016
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

Resources for People Who Benefit from White Supremacy to Begin or Continue Learning