Equity Archives — Page 13 of 35

Smart Growth America Equity Summit envisions a community-lead approach to planning

The summit laid out a vision for a transportation planning process that assess errors of the past and the needs of the present, and envisions the future in a spirit of trust, celebration and healing.

Beth Osborne

February 2, 2021

Smart Growth America Equity Summit envisions a community-lead approach to planning

Streetsblog Chicago |crime

Should the CTA adopt women-only transit? Interviews with Chicago women suggest yes

Women-only transportation helps to dismantle one of the barriers that women face daily, so it should be seriously considered in the Chicago and other U.S. cities.

Olivia Grenzebach

January 15, 2021

Equity

Talking Headways Podcast: ‘Intro to the City’

How do Black and Hispanic kids feel when they go into a Whole Foods? Not welcome, that's for sure. And therein lies a major problem.

Jeff Wood

January 14, 2021

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Equity

Data: Road Violence Affects Black Neighborhoods More

Of the 210 fatal car crashes in Massachusetts where a driver killed a bike rider or pedestrian between 2018 and 2020, a quarter of those killings occurred in neighborhoods where the Black population makes up a higher-than-average proportion of the population.

Christian MilNeil

January 12, 2021

Car culture

Op-Ed: Car Dependency is An Unequal Burden

Automobile-dependent planning has changed automobiles from a luxury into a necessity. Excessive vehicle costs leave many households without money to purchase essential food, shelter and healthcare. They need more affordable transportation options.

Todd Litman

December 24, 2020

Destiny Thomas

‘We Could Do Without Urban Planning’: Destiny Thomas on the 2021 Un-Urbanist Assembly

"The truth is, we could do without urban planning. And if we did, that wouldn’t mean that no one would be thinking intentionally about how to make cities. The instrument, the arm, the machine [for] city-making — it's got to go."

Kea Wilson

December 22, 2020

Equity

Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways

“It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” Buttigieg said on Sunday. "We have a chance to get that right.”