Week 20
Race, Green Space, and the Limits of Design
Required readings
Wolch, Jennifer R., Jason Byrne, and Joshua P. Newell. "Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’." Landscape and Urban Planning 125 (2014): 234-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.017
Larson, Scott M. "Imagining social justice and the false promise of urban park design." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 50, no. 2 (2018): 391-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17742156
Further readings
Plumer, Brad, and Nadja Popovich. “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering.” The New York Times, August 24, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/24/climate/racism-redlining-...
Dannenberg, Andrew L., and Heather Burpee. "Architecture for health is not just for healthcare architects.” HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal 11, no. 2 (May 2018): 8-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1937586718772955
