• A toolbox for equitable planning

    Adding sensitivity to courage, intelligence, and vitality is a recipe for an equitable land-use plan, according to The Equity Planner.
    Equity planning is inclusion and shared success, explains Jason King of Dover, Kohl & Partners (DKP), author of The Equity Planner: Five Tools to Facilitate Economic Development with Just Outcomes . DKP principal King, DKP urban planner Kessie Estil, and Diana Pena, co-founder of Able City,...Read more

  • New Urbanism is inclusive urbanism

    Practitioners and thought leaders convene to explore new urbanists’ commitment to building great places for all people, beginning with the gendered urban experience.
    In the fall of 2023, a group of just over 30 academics and professionals in various sectors of the urban design and planning field came together in Washington, DC, to share perspectives and engage in discussions to begin improving new urbanists’ understanding of what it means to make cities, towns...Read more

  • Redevelopment plan advances for Tulsa massacre area

    A century after devastating destruction of Greenwood, the city supports a community-driven plan to redevelop publicly owned sites in and near the neighborhood.
    A century after one of the worst race massacres in US history, the City of Tulsa is advancing plans to redevelop publicly owned land in and around the Greenwood neighborhood, north of downtown. One of the wealthiest Black communities in the US in 1921, Greenwood was demolished by a white mob,...Read more

  • Repairing past harm: Do designers and planners have a role?

    In a recent On the Park Bench webinar, CNU board member and former New York City Parks Commissioner Mitch Silver discussed the harm inflicted on black communities by the planning profession. He made the case for planners to mitigate inequities of historic land-use decisions. Silver quoted the code...Read more