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Starting now. Such an essential conversation: Does planning care about Black lives? #WalkBikePlaces https://twitter.com/PPS_Placemaking/status/1288811386605383682">https://twitter.com/PPS_Place...
#WalkBikePlaces @Mitchell_Silver notes that zoning was clearly set up to protect interests of white landowners w/enabling federal legislation. Today& #39;s planners have to look back at effects of single-family zoning, tax benefits for homeowners etc.
#WalkBikePlaces BLM has focused attn on need to deal w/racist policy legacy still hurting people today."Everyone should have the opportunity to prosper and live in a decent, safe neighborhood." @Mitchell_Silver
#WalkBikePlaces @DrDesThePlanner: Problematic to situate racism as "something we used to do" in planning. Data we use today supports legacy of racism. Who has access to policy/decisionmaking is still reflecting power differences.
#WalkBikePlaces @theycallmeOboi answers the panel title& #39;s question "Does planning care about Black lives?" His answer: No.
#WalkBikePlaces @TheyCallMeOboi, founder of @Equiticity, points to planning& #39;s reliance on enforcement for traffic safety. Planning Depts "unwilling to state that law enforcement shouldn& #39;t be a Vision Zero strategy." #VisionZero
#WalkBikePlaces Community engagement isn& #39;t a one-off open house, it& #39;s a relationship. Planning can& #39;t do paint-by-numbers engagement, @Mitchell_Silver says.
#WalkBikePlaces @Mitchell_Silver describes a meeting involving older Black women in public housing. 30 years of pain, of being ignored, of not asking what a community really needs, shows up when a planner says they& #39;re here with the next new thing.
#WalkBikePlaces @DrDesThePlanner identifies fear of authentic engagement because your favored solution might not be the outcome. Have to come in willing to leave w/something different than what you thought coming in the room.
#WalkBikePlaces @DrDesThePlanner on social climate analysis. If you go look at an intersection and see someone there who& #39;s unhoused, that tells you housing advocates need to be in discussion of solutions. (How often does THIS happen in transportation work?!)
#WalkBikePlaces @DrDesThePlanner: Restorative justice requires ongoing, non-project-oriented engagement.
#WalkBikePlaces @TheyCallMeOboi: If planners only do what makes them comfortable, they& #39;re not doing their jobs. Go into rooms you& #39;re uncomfortable in, listen to people who challenge you, do much more homework than you& #39;ve ever done before.
#WalkBikePlaces @DrDesThePlanner calls for "joy-centered opportunities for engagement" rooted in cultural practices of Black people. Her dignity-infused approach to planning respects and centers this. Such a great description.
#WalkBikePlaces @DrDesThePlanner op-ed in @StreetsblogUSA https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/07/27/opinion-urbanism-is-complicit-in-infra-structural-racism-and-reparations-have-a-place-in-the-built-environment/">https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/07/2... calls for atonement and reparations, not prayers and empathy. #unurbanism
#WalkBikePlaces @TheyCallMeOboi: The ownership of plans doesn& #39;t rest in planning departments; it rests in neighborhoods, in the people who are there every day.
#WalkBikePlaces @TheyCallMeOboi: We do not leave the work of dismantling inequities to well-meaning people; we *legislate* that work, we put it into policy. Need models of accountability to dismantle structural racism.
#WalkBikePlaces @DrDesThePlanner points out 2 other problems deeply rooted in planning: ableism and misogynoir. System is criminalizing people for problems rooted in legacy of systemic racism, inequities built into the spaces that have been created within this system.
#WalkBikePlaces @DrDesThePlanner notes the other side from abolition of the problem is erasure of those calling for that abolition. Speaking up for change within the planning community has led to pushback/silencing. We need to get to actionable next steps for change.
#WalkBikePlaces @TheyCallMeOboi: "I am not of the opinion that institutions which harm us have the right to exist."
#WalkBikePlaces Watch for Dignity Institute being launched by @DrDesThePlanner Thrivance Group *tomorrow* if you want training in their dignity-infused approach. Only 275 spots!
#WalkBikePlaces @TheyCallMeOboi says, "Our oppression was and is by design" and calls for the same intentionality in dismantling structural racism.
#WalkBikePlaces What a FABULOUS conversation in the plenary moderated by @_Boy_Wonder w/ @DrDesThePlanner @TheyCallMeOboi @Mitchell_Silver. I think my Zoom chat crashed because I stopped seeing new comments but I know people were engaged, listening, learning.
#WalfkBikePlace Dropping link to a tweet from @gulatinidhi on important point by @DrDesThePlanner I didn& #39;t type fast enough to capture in real time https://twitter.com/gulatinidhi/status/1290374455240392715?s=20.">https://twitter.com/gulatinid... #ActOnClimate
If you were following tweets from #WalkBikePlaces earlier today then me tagging tweets #WalkBikePlace likely didn& #39;t reach you.... So here& #39;s a thread above.
Dark Matter University may interest you if you& #39;re following #WalkBikePlaces or #unurbanist https://twitter.com/jgmoore/status/1288329247199813634?s=20.">https://twitter.com/jgmoore/s... h/t @JGMoore
