Mayors Imagining the Just City: Volume 6

• Livestream Link: This event will be in person and livestreamed. The livestream is available at the top of this page: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/mayors-imagining-the-just-city-volume-6/
• Please note: RSVP does not guarantee entry, which is filled on a first-come-first-served basis. Doors open 15 minutes before the event begins, so be sure to arrive early.

About This Event

Kicking off the sixth annual Just City Mayoral Fellowship—a program of the United States Conference of Mayors and the GSD’s Just City Lab, in partnership with the Mayors’ Institute on City Design—speakers will discuss strategies for using planning and design interventions to address racial, social, and environmental injustice in our cities.

Speakers

• Mayor Aftab Pureval, Mayor, Cincinnati, OH
• Xavier ‘Xav’ de Souza Briggs, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
• Anthony Flint, Senior Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Moderator

• Toni L. Griffin, Professor in Practice in Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Director, The Just City Lab; Founder, urbanAC

Just City Mayoral Fellowship
This year’s Fellowship will focus on advancing holistic, place-based restorative and reparative solutions to improve neighborhoods and civic and cultural infrastructures, producing more just and equitable outcomes.

At the Just City Lab, we ask: would we design better places if we put the values of equality, inclusion, and equity first? If a community articulated what it stood for, what it believed in, what it aspired to be — as a city, as a neighborhood—would it have a better chance of creating and sustaining a healthier, more vibrant place, with positive economic, health, civic, cultural, and environmental conditions? Imagine that the issues of race, income, education, and unemployment inequality, and the resulting segregation, isolation, and fear, could be addressed by planning and designing for greater access, agency, ownership, beauty, diversity, or empowerment. Now, imagine the Just City: cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces that thrive through a value-based approach to urban stabilization, revitalization, and transformation. Imagine a set of values that would define a community’s aspiration for the Just City. Imagine we can assign metrics to measure design’s impact on justice. Imagine we can use these findings to deploy interventions that minimize conditions of injustice.

Read more at: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/mayors-imagining-the-just-city-volume-6/

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