SUSTAINING COMMUNITIES BY… SUSTAINING COMMUNITIES

Lisa K. Bates, Portland State University

�A sign in Cheshire Street, east London.

Photograph: Sara Kelly

ADPDX – CAT – Portland Tenants United rally �Shelby R King, Portland Mercury

ADPDX��BANNER DROP at planning + sustainability commission�comprehensive plan hearing

THE CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE CONCLUDED A FEW YEARS BACK THAT ONE OF ITS MAJOR TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS IN HELPING TO ERADICATE RACISM WOULD BE TO MAKE A START AT UNRAVELING THE RACIAL MYSTERIES OF URBAN PLANNING.�1968

Harold M. Baron,

The Racial Aspects of Urban Planning: Planning…in Black and White

Historic urban renewal �in Northeast Portland, 1955-1975

A cupola is removed from atop the Hill Block building at North Russell Street and Williams Avenue in the 1970s. After the building was demolished as part of an urban renewal effort, the 1.7-acre block has since sat vacant. (City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2010-003.6532)

Activists block Chicago's �The 606 trail in 2016 to protest gentrification and displacement. �Photo by Tyler Lariviere.��

 Brixton anti-gentrification protest.

Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/�The Guardian�

Residents and advocates protest gentrification of Chinatown outside the James Cohan Gallery. (WNV/Louis Chan)

Bushwick residents rally against gentrification’�Photo by Stefano Giovannini��

AS THE METROPOLITAN CENTERS GROW IN SIZE AND BECOME MORE TECHNOLOGICALLY COMPLEX, THE TECHNIQUES OF PLANNING FOR THEM HAVE BECOME MORE METHODOLOGICALLY SOPHISTICATED. …NEVERTHELESS, ALL THIS PROFESSIONAL SOPHISTICATION SEEMS FAR REMOVED FROM THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM OF THE CITY, RACISM. THE AWARE BLACK MAN IN THE GHETTO TENDS TO VIEW URBAN PLANNING MORE AS AN ENEMY THAN AS AN AID.

Harold M. Baron, Planning…in Black and White

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A planner discovers who did the racism