This book provides justification, a framework and examples for an emergent alternative approach to planning and community development. Planning, design and community development have often been practiced in a monocultural way, as if all communities are the same, meaning that communities of color and low-income communities are often overlooked or ignored, if not outright harmed. This book highlights a new approach for transformative community development, where worldviews are rooted in the culture of communities of color and everyday people can find expression in decisions about a community’s future. This transformative approach gives voice to people on the margins, unapologetically embraces issues of social justice and seeks to increase the overall health and well-being of the community. This book explores the motives, vision, tenets and challenges of this transformative paradigm and provides numerous case examples from the U.S. and Canada. Including a range of diverse contributors, chapters explore themes such as decolonial planning, climate injustice, Black planning, ethics and more. This book is essential for professionals, students and professors of urban planning, design and community development in the U.S.
This book highlights a new approach for transformative community development, where worldviews are rooted in the culture of communities of color and everyday people can find expression in decisions about a community’s future. Chapters explore themes such as decolonial planning, climate injustice, Black planning, and ethics.
Land Acknowledgment, Foreword, and Introduction Part I: Transformative
Planning
1. Learning from Mel King: Transformative Planner, Activist,
Educator and Thinker
2. Transformative Planning in Practice: Challenges and
Strategies Part II: Planning from Black Communities/African Diaspora
Perspectives
3. Black Planning Projects 4P Approach: People, Place, Pedagogy
and Practice
4. Perspectives from an Early 21st Century Black Planner Part
III: Indigenous Planning/Tribal and Pacific Island Perspectives
5. Seven
Generations: A Role for Artists in Zuni Place Knowing
6. Beyond Refusal:
Balancing Colonial Land Ownership in Planning
7. Planning Against
Imperialism: Towards a Global and Transnational Indigenous Planning Part IV:
Planning from Latino Communities /Puerto Rican Perspectives
8. Strategies to
Protect and Enhance the Political and Cultural Capital of Puerto Ricans in
Chicago Part V: Housing
9. Beyond the House: Decolonial Housing for a Just
Future Part VI: Ethics
10. Love Ethics to Guide Planning/Policy
Transformation Part VII: Prison Abolition and Planning
11. A Place for
Planning in Abolition and Transformative Justice? Part VIII: Political
Mobilizing and Organizing
12. Mobilizing Communities of Color for Housing
Policy Change Part IX: Storytelling and Film
13. Sa Amin: Our Place - Films
Transformative Planning Potential Part X: Environmental and Climate Justice
14. Seeing Indigenous Peoples in Urban Environmental and Climate Justice:
Transformations and Intersectionalities
15. A Blues Epistemology for Climate
Futures
Sean Robin has worked for decades in New York in the community development field, including through promoting supportive housing and cooperative home ownership and through sponsoring authentically participatory processes. He is founding editor of Indigenous Planning Times, is on the steering committee of Planners Network and co-initiated the BIPOC Planning Collective.
