Op-Ed: Making Black Lives Matter in Street Safety
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Our racial-equity lens must foster real policies that can be regularly evaluated and measured.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Equity
On 'Private Places' and Spatial Anti-Blackness
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Two white homeowners threatened the lives of Black Lives Mater protesters in on a private street in St. Louis on Sunday, raising new questions about anti-Black racism in pseudo-public space.
Portlanders Celebrate (And Question) New Cafes
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For years local transportation reform activists have pushed City of Portland to go beyond car storage and driving and think more creatively about what we can do with our streets. And when calls for new uses of street space were made, it was often restaurant owners who lined up to say their business would perish […]
How to Design Self-Policing Streets
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We should be redesigning our transportation system to reduce the chances of Black and Brown residents interacting with law enforcement, and to promote transportation equity.
Op-Ed: Whose Streets? Black Streets
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Planners and urbanists, it’s time to reckon with the racism rampant in city building. Here are four actions to take.
How to Center Community Input in Slow Streets Projects
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47th Ward alderman Matt Martin hosted a panel on these topics with reps from the Active Transportation Alliance, the Metropolitan Planning Council, and Streetsblog Chicago.