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Murals, Bikes, Patios

Week 5

Murals, Bikes, Patios: Racism and Bias of White Urbanism and Placemaking Curated by Sarah Gelbard Moderated

Required readings

Summers, Brandi T. “Introduction.” In, 1-12. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Dorries, Heather. “‘Welcome to Winnipeg’ Making settler-colonial urban space in ‘Canada’s most racist city.’” In, edited by Dorries, Henry, Hugill, et.al., 31-41. University of Manitoba Press, 2019.

Ward, Ariel. “A Tale of Two Truths: Transportation and Nuance in the Time of COVID-19.” Medium. May 14, 2020. *Content Warning: Race-based violence* [Note: the author shares a personal account of race-based violence at the start of the essay - if you are concerned this may be triggering or distressing, you can start reading on the second page of the pdf or scroll to under the first image start reading from the paragraph beginning with: “Taking transit while Black...”]

Further readings

Koh, Annette. “Placemaking When Black Lives Matter.” In Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism, edited by Angotti, 97-100. Black Rose Books, 2020.

Rutland, Ted. . Halifax. University of Toronto Press, 2018.

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