Resources by Subject
Architecture
Inclusive Design Research Centre
The Shift | Leilani Farha
A Change is Proposed for This Site: A Short Story About Urban Inequity | Reza Nik
Treaty Lands Global Stories | University of Waterloo School of Architecture
On Race and Architecture | Sunra Thompson
There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus | Brentin Mock
America’s Cities Were Designed to Opress | Bryan Lee Jr.
The Toxic Intersection of Racism and Public Space | Brentin Mock
Barrier-Breaking African American Architects We Should Be Celebrating | Elizabeth Fazzare and Carly Olson
Black Landscapes Matter | Kofi Boone
Three Architects Discuss Whiteness and Racism in the Built Environment | Mabel O Wilson, Mario Gooden, Justin Garrett Moore
Black Voices in Architecture
Racism in the Architectural Profession | Olivera Neskovic
Architecture is systemically racist. So what is the profession going to do about it? | Richard Waite
National Organization of Minority Architects
Un-making Architecture: An anti-racist architecture manifesto | WAI Architecture Think Tank
The Anti-White Space | Samiha Meem
Planning
Where Am I?
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering | Brad Plumer, Nadja Popovich
Segregated By Design | Silkworm Studio
The Black Lives Next Door | Richard Rothstein
Racial Equity Institute
The Shift | Leilani Farha
A Change is Proposed for This Site: A Short Story About Urban Inequity | Reza Nik
The Colour of Law | Richard Rothstein
Africville: A Community Destroyed | CBC Radio
21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation With Indigenous Peoples A Reality | Bob Joseph
The Lost Neighborhood Under New York’s Central Park | Ranjani Chakraborty
There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus | Brentin Mock
America’s Cities Were Designed to Opress | Bryan Lee Jr.
The Toronto Fall Out Report | Toronto Foundation
How Los Angeles County Furthered Racist ‘Fair-Housing’ Practices | Brentin Mock
The Racial Injustice of American Highways | Linda Poon
A Call to Courage | Jay Pitter
Toward Being a Better Gentrifier | Brentin Mock
Historian Says Don’t ‘Sanitize’ How Our Government Created Ghettos | Fresh Air
‘Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives | Destiny Thomas
Code Switch
Seeing White | John Biewen
How do we respond to anti-black racism in urbanist practices and conversations? | Jay Pitter
How do we respond to anti-black racism in urbanist practices and conversations? (Part 2) | Jay Pitter
Black Voices in the City (A Resource Guide)
Anti-Black Racism in Planning Task Force | Ontario Professional Planners Institute
Black Futures on Eglinton | Cheryl Case, Black Urbanism TO
Why is urban planning so white? | Saquib Ahsan, Ruth Belay, Abigail Moriah, and Gervais Nash
Urban Design is Not Neutral | Tamika L Butler, Steve Paikin
Law
Law Society of Ontario EDI
Accessible Canada Act
The Colour of Law | Richard Rothstein
21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation With Indigenous Peoples A Reality | Bob Joseph
At Liberty | ACLU
Pod Save the People
The United States of Anxiety | Kai Wright
Sea Change: Navigating Oppression | Fireweed Collective
Finance & Investments
The Black Opportunity Fund with Dennis Mitchel
Segregated By Design | Silkworm Studio
Racial Equity Institute
The Case for Reparations | Ta-Nehisi Coates
Construction
Centre for Young Black Professionals
Engineering
Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist | Leah Thomas
Development
CREW Network
ULI Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI)
Parkdale Community Benefits Framework | Parkdale Peoples Economy
Racial Equity Institute
The Shift | Leilani Farha
A Change is Proposed for This Site: A Short Story About Urban Inequity | Reza Nik
Health and Social Equity in Real Estate: State of the Market | Urban Land Institute
Africville: A Community Destroyed | CBC Radio
The Lost Neighborhood Under New York’s Central Park | Ranjani Chakraborty
The Stakes | Kai Wright