Start Date
10/03/2025
End Date
10/03/2025
Description
This 75 - minute panel discussion explores how equity-focused organizations, community land trusts, and advocacy groups are reshaping design and planning practices. Presenters will share place-based interventions that challenge traditional structures of power, highlighting community-led approaches to land ownership, zoning, and research. Participants will reflect on what radical collaboration looks like in practice and how to incorporate these strategies into professional work in the current atmosphere.
Location
Boston, MA
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Housing & Community Design
Urban Planning & Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.25
Learning Outcomes
Evaluate the role of community land trusts in advancing equity and ownership in the built environment.
Identify strategies community-based organizations use to reshape zoning and land-use practices.
Develop approaches for incorporating community-led ownership models into design projects.
Formulate a professional commitment to support place-based equity initiatives in their own work.
Instructors
Armani White, Executive Director, Reclaim RoxburyCaroline Ellenbird, Director, Comunidades Enraizadas Community Land TrustLydia Lowe, Executive Director, Chinatown Community Land TrustMinnie McMahon, Program Director for Greater Boston CLT Network
Course Codes
Provider
Boston Society of Landscape Architects