Critical Perspectives on Urban Space and Social Justice

Registration Eligibility

N/A

Start Date

05/19/2021

End Date

05/19/2021

Description

This symposium explores how to translate findings about social injustice as it exists in urban spaces, particularly public spaces, into design and planning guidelines and program interventions. The session will examine four research projects that employ a critical perspective on the current use, control and design of everyday urban spaces. Each project interrogates a different kind of space and social justice issue including liberatory educational spaces in a Black public university, Black homeowner resistance in a gentrifying neighborhood, policing and surveillance in redesigned low-income neighborhood parks, and smart city strategies of social control in a privately funded public space.

Distance Learning

Yes

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Housing & Community Design
Urban Planning & Design

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.50

Learning Outcomes

1- Understand the impact of race, class and gender on the design and use of public spaces. 2- Discuss a series of critical theories from the social sciences that are useful in informing socially just design and planning. 3- Identify how specific built environments and institutions such as neighborhoods, schools, public spaces and public/private space could be improved to increase social inclusivity and reduce social and racial exclusion. 4- Consider the impact of different qualitative methodologies on the study of social justice in the built environment.

Instructors

Setha Low

Course Codes

Provider

Environmental Design Research Association

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